I am Professor of Personality Psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). My research focuses on personality development and political psychology.
Key publications
Demel, R., Masch, L., Schieferdecker, D., Schwander, H., Hutter, S., & Specht, J. (in press). Empathy during Crises: Investigating attitudes, tolerance, and ingroup-outgroup dynamics in response to refugee movements. Journal of Personality.
Kratt, L., Höltmann, G., Hutter, S., & Specht, J. (2024). The Big Five personality traits and social support during the COVID-19 pandemic: The supporters, the supported, and the overlooked. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34:e2894.
Neumann, R., Pfetsch, B., Hutter, S., Koschut, S., Schieferdecker, D., & Specht, J. (2023). The rhetoric of solidarity: Nature and measurement of social cohesion in the self-representation of civil society organizations. Social Indicators Research, 169, 863-882.
Specht, J. (Ed.) (2017). Personality development across the lifespan. San Diego: Elsevier.
Specht, J., Egloff, B., & Schmukle, S. C. (2011). 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.