Chiara Förster

Predoctoral Researcher

Franz-Mehring-Str. 47, 17487 Greifswald
Room: 3.04

chiara.foersteruni-greifswaldde

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Research Interests

  • Beliefs about the Self, Others, and the World (especially Perceptions of Anomie and Self-Esteem)
  • Personality Development
  • Person-Environment Dynamics
  • Longitudinal Data Analysis

Research Overview

My research examines how people perceive themselves, others, and the society they live in, with a particular focus on perceptions of anomie and self-esteem. I am also interested in how personality shapes, and is shaped by, social and technological environments, including digital media. Methodologically, my work draws primarily on longitudinal data. I am currently working on a project on self-esteem contingencies, that is, the domains on which people stake their sense of self-worth.

Selected Publications

Golec de Zavala, A., Förster, C., Ziegler, M., Nalberczak-Skóra, M., Ciesielski, P., & Mazurkiewicz, M. (2024). The shape of the change: Cumulative and incremental changes in daily mood during mobile-app-supported mindfulness training. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12518

Lee, Tony C., Förster, Chiara A., Ziegler, Matthias (2025). Does Artificial Intelligence Genuinely Predict Personality Traits? A Meta-Analytic Review of Machine-Predicted Big Five Scores: Convergence and Bias. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5238288

Mussel, P., & Förster, C. (2026). Self-related core beliefs incrementally predict levels and change in life satisfaction over and above the Big Five. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rcy5t_v1 

Short CV

  • since 03/2026 Research Associate, University of Greifswald, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment
  • since 04/2025 Research Associate, Psychological University Berlin, Psychological Assessment and Personality Psychology
  • 10/2021 - 06/2024 M.Sc. Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Thesis: Examining Person-Situation Dynamics in Everyday Social Behavior
  • 09/2023 - 03/2024 Visiting Researcher, Stanford University, Department of Communication, Media & Personality Lab
  • 02/2019 - 06/2024Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  • 10/2018 - 09/2021 B.Sc. Psychology, University of Lübeck, Thesis: A Taxonomy of Visually Perceived Situation Cues in Personality-Relevant Situation Pictures

Teaching