Dr. Theresa Entringer

Postdoctoral Researcher

Franz-Mehring-Str. 47, 17487 Greifswald
Room: 3.03

Phone +49 3834 420 3772
theresa.entringeruni-greifswaldde

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Research Interests

  • Personality traits, their change, and their interactions with the social and physical environment
  • Big Five and Big Two personality traits
  • Mental health and well-being, especially loneliness

About me

I am interested in understanding how our environments shape personality, well-being, and health. In my research, I use longitudinal data to examine how personality traits and well-being change over time, and I am particularly interested in whether these changes depend on the social and physical contexts in which people live. I take a broad view of environment, and I am interested in how the values, attitudes, and norms of the people around us, as well as regional characteristics such as median income, residential mobility, and migration rates, influence individual development.

Selected Publications

Entringer, T. M., Buchinger, L., Heckhausen, J., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2026). Historical Changes in Control Belief Trajectories. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070261454669

Entringer, T. M., Halbmeier, C., Buchinger, L. & Reitz, A. (2026). Within-Nation Variation in War Exposure and Psychological and Physical Adjustment. Advanced online publication. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000601

Entringer, T. M., Gebauer, J. E., Eck, J., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2021b). Big Five facets and religiosity: Three large-scale, cross-cultural, theory-driven, and process-attentive tests. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(6), 1662-1695. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000364

 

Short CV

  • since 2024: Senior Researcher (tenured), Personality Psychology & Assessment, University of Greifswald
  • since 2019: Senior Research, Socio-Economic Panel German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin
  • 2025–2026: Interim Professor (Acting chair on behalf of  Prof. Anne K. Reitz), Personality Psychology & Assessment University of Greifswald, Greifswald
  • 2019: PhD (Social Sciences, Psychology), Thesis Title: “The Sociocultural Motives Perspective – Personality and the Motive for Assimilation versus Contrast” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jochen Gebauer, Emmy-Noether-Research Group “Self & Society”), Cross-cultural Personality and Social Psychology
    University Mannheim, Mannheim, GER
  • 2018: Research Stay, Paulhus Personality Lab (Supervisor: Delroy Paulhus), University of British Columbia, CA

Teaching

  • Lecture: Psychometrics and Assessment (B.Sc.)
  • Lecture: Psychological Evaluation and Report Writing (M.Sc. Psychological Research)
  • Seminar: Test Construction (B.Sc.)
  • Seminar: Selected Assessment Instruments (B.Sc.)
  • Seminar: Psychological Evaluation and Report Writing (M.Sc. Psychological Research)