Jochen Eberhard Gebauer

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Office hours: Mondays-fridays from 9:30-18:00 (by phone)

Research Fields

• Social psychology
• Personality psychology
• Cross-cultural psychology
• Self psychology
  
  

Research Group Memberships

• Copenhagen Personality and Social Psychology (CoPSY)
  
  

Research Interests

• People’s self-views are typically more positive than more objective tests indicate. For instance, people consider themselves smarter than intelligence tests indicate and people consider themselves nicer to others than those others indicate. Stated otherwise, people typically wear rose colored glasses when they look in the mirror—they self-deceptively enhance themselves. At the same time, almost every cultural group comes with stern humility norms that oppose such self-enhancement. In Denmark, for example, those norms are part of the Law of Jante. One line of my research seeks to elucidate the self-enhancement phenomenon, humility norms, and their interplay.
• People constantly evaluate other people and themselves. Those evaluations are typically guided by two questions: How high or low is this person’s social status? And how benevolent vs. malevolent is this person? Stated in psychological terms, people primarily care about the two dimensions of agency (social status) and communion (benevolence). Agency and communion are so central across diverse branches of psychology that they have been termed the “Big Two” or the “fundamental dimensions” in psychology. But why are agency and communion so central and with what effect for our behavior and, ultimately, for our species? The second line of my research seeks to elucidate those questions and many more regarding agency and communion.
  
  

Main Research Grants

• “Why are the Big Two of Agency and Communion so Fundamental to Human Psychology?” (funded by the ERC, Consolidator Grant)
• Heisenberg-Professorship for Cross-Cultural Social and Personality Psychology (funded by the DFG)
• Emmy-Noether Research Group “Self & Society” (funded by the DFG)

 

Selected publications

1. Published

   A sociocultural norm perspective on Big Five prediction

   Eck, J. & Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, 2022, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 122, 3, p. 554-575

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty

   Berkessel, J. B., Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, Joshanloo, M., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J. & Gosling, S. D., 28 Sep 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 39, e2103913118.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   The Well-Being Benefits of Person-Culture Match Are Contingent on Basic Personality Traits

   Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, Eck, J., Entringer, T. M., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J. & Gosling, S. D., Oct 2020, In: Psychological Science. 31, 10, p. 1283-1293 11 p., 0956797620951115.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

4. Published

   Agentic narcissism, communal narcissism, and prosociality

   Nehrlich, A. D., Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, Sedikides, C. & Schoel, C., 2019, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 117, 1

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

5. Mind-Body Practices and the Self: Yoga and Meditation Do Not Quiet the Ego but Instead Boost Self-Enhancement

   Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, Nehrlich, A. D., Stahlberg, D., Sedikides, C., Hackenschmidt, A., Schick, D., Stegmaier, C. A., Windfelder, C. C., Bruk, A. & Mander, J., 2018, In: Psychological Science.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

6. Published

   Christian self-enhancement

   Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, Sedikides, C. & Schrade, A., 2017, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 113, 5, p. 786-809

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

7. Published

   The religiosity as social value hypothesis: A multi-method replication and extension across 65 countries and three levels of spatial aggregation

   Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, Sedikides, C., Schönbrodt, F. D., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J. & Gosling, S. D., 2017, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 113, 3, p. e18-e39

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

8. Published

   Cultural norm fulfillment, interpersonal belonging, or getting ahead? A large-scale cross-cultural test of three perspectives on the function of self-esteem

   Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, Sedikides, C., Wagner, J., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J. & Gosling, S. D., 2015, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

9. Published

   Cross-cultural variations in big five relationships with religiosity: A sociocultural motives perspective

   Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, Bleidorn, W., Gosling, S. D., Rentfrow, P. J., Lamb, M. E. & Potter, J., 2014, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

10. Published

    Communal Narcissism

    Gebauer, Jochen Eberhard, Sedikides, C., Verplanken, B. & Maio, G. R., Nov 2012, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 103, 5, p. 854-878 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review