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  • Specht, J. (Ed.). (2017). Personality development across the lifespan. San Diego: Elsevier.

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  • Specht, J., Egloff, B., & Schmukle, S. C. (2011a). The benefits of believing in chance or fate: External locus of control as a protective factor for coping with the death of a spouse. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 132–137.

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  • Specht, J., Egloff, B., & Schmukle, S. C. (2011b). Stability and change of personality across the life course: The impact of age and major life events on mean-level and rank-order stability of the Big Five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 862–882.

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  • Specht, J., Egloff, B., & Schmukle, S. C. (2013a). Everything under control? The effects of age, gender, and education on trajectories of perceived control in a nationally representative German sample. Developmental Psychology, 49, 353–364.

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  • Specht, J., Egloff, B., & Schmukle, S. C. (2013b). Examining mechanisms of personality maturation: The impact of life satisfaction on the development of the Big Five personality traits. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 181–189.

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  • Specht, J., Bleidorn, W., Denissen, J. J. A., Hennecke, M., Hutteman, R., Kandler, C., Luhmann, M., Orth, U., Reitz, A. K., & Zimmermann, J. (2014a). What drives adult personality development? A comparison of theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence. European Journal of Personality, 28, 216–230.

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  • Specht, J., Luhmann, M., & Geiser, C. (2014b). On the consistency of personality types across adulthood: Latent profile analyses in two large-scale panel studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 540–556.

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Specht, J. (2016). Specht, Jule. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2036-1

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