Prof. Dr. Anne Reitz

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Franz-Mehring-Str. 47, 17487 Greifswald
Room: 320

Phone +49 3834 420 3752
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Research Interests

  • Personality development across the lifespan
  • Self-esteem and psychological well-being
  • Person–environment transactions in daily life and across life transitions
  • Work, education, and relationships as developmental contexts
  • Longitudinal and experience-sampling methods

Research Overview

My research examines the antecedents, processes, and consequences of personality development across the lifespan. I am particularly interested in how and why personality, self-esteem, and psychological well-being change through person–environment transactions, from everyday experiences to major life transitions and life events. Across projects, I connect long-term developmental change with short-term processes in everyday experience, especially in the contexts of work, education, and social relationships. To study these questions, I use longitudinal and ambulatory assessment designs, including experience sampling methods, and am committed open science practices.

Selected Publications

  • Diwan, K., Bakx, A., Meens, E. & Reitz, A. K. (2026). Dynamic associations between daily events and state self-esteem during the student-to-teacher transition. European Journal of Personality, 40(3), 459–477. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251357994
  • Tran, C. B., Ivanova, K., Stavrova, O., & Reitz, A. K. (2026). Changes in psychological well-being across the transition to motherhood: Combining longitudinal and experience sampling methods. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 130(2), 373–398. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000573
  • Reitz, A. K. (2022). Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(11), e12709. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12709

Short CV

  • 2023–present: Professor of Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment, University of Greifswald
  • 2017–2023: Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University; tenured in 2022; continued affiliation and part-time employment since 03/2024
  • 2016–2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Departments of Social Psychology, New York University and Columbia University
  • 2014–2015: Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University
  • 2013: PhD in Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, summa cum laude

Teaching

  • Lecture: Personality Psychology I (B.Sc.)
  • Lecture: Personality Psychology II (B.Sc.)
  • Seminar: Selected Topics in Personality Psychology (B.Sc.)
  • Seminar: Advanced Personality Psychology (M.Sc. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, M.Sc. Psychological Research)
  • Seminar: Advanced Test Construction (M.Sc. Psychological Research)