Prof. Dr. Jule Specht - Coping with Affective Polarization

Prof. Dr. Jule Specht

Principal Investigator

Research Stream:
Berlin Polarization Monitor
Individuals

Short Vita

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. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2894
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-023-03163-0
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024950

Press publications

Regular column for the Tagesspiegel
Warum wir nicht mit allen gleich solidarisch sind (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2020)

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