John Rauthmann is the current chair of personality psychology and psychological assessment at the Department of Psychology at the University of Lübeck (Germany). Previously, he served as a faculty member (assistant professor) at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem (NC, USA). He is a personality psychologist whose interests include, but are not limited to, personality structure and processes, person-situation transactions, and psychological situations.
Educational Background
Rauthmann (born November 12, 1987, in Montego Bay, Jamaica) earned his diploma degree in Psychology from the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck (Austria) in 2012, his PhD from the Humboldt-University of Berlin (Germany) in 2014 under Jens B. Asendorpf and Jochen E. Gebauer, and his habilitation (venia legendi) in 2016 also from Humboldt University of Berlin. He has lived in Jamaica (early years), Germany (school), Austria (university study), Germany (dissertation and habilitation), and the USA (assistant...
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Rauthmann, J. F. (2016). Motivational factors in the perception of psychological situation characteristics. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10, 92–108.
Rauthmann, J. F., Gallardo-Pujol, D., Guillaume, E. M., Todd, E., Nave, C. S., Sherman, R. A., Ziegler, M., Jones, A. B., & Funder, D. C. (2014). The situational eight DIAMONDS: A taxonomy of major dimensions of situation characteristics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 677–718.
Rauthmann, J. F., Sherman, R. A., Nave, C. S., & Funder, D. C. (2015a). Personality-driven situation experience, contact, and construal: How people’s personality traits predict characteristics of their situations in daily life. Journal of Research in Personality, 55, 98–111.
Rauthmann, J. F., Sherman, R. A., & Funder, D. C. (2015b). Principles of situation research: Towards a psychological understanding of situations. Target article (with commentaries and a rejoinder by the authors). European Journal of Personality, 29, 363–381.
Rauthmann, J. F., Jones, A. B., & Sherman, R. A. (2016). Directionality of person-situation transactions: Are there spill-overs among and between situation experiences and personality states? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 893–909.
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Rauthmann, J.F. (2017). Rauthmann, John. 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_2293-1
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