Welcome to the lab of Prof. Dr. Mitja Back. My associates, students and I are interested in the interplay of personality and social relationships.
Our research focuses on how personality affects the initiation and maintenance of social relationships and how, in turn, social relationships feed back into the development of social identities. Latest projects cover topics such as personality self-knowledge, the popularity of narcissists, the accuracy of interpersonal judgments, personality and speed-dating, personality and the development of friendships, as well as the indirect assessment of personality and attraction.
In teaching, we provide a comprehensive B.Sc.- and M.Sc.-program in personality psychology and psychological assessment, including lectures and courses on psychodiagnostics, test theory, differential psychology, performance, ability and personality tests, test construction, and psychological examination.
Information regarding CONNECT – Kennenlernen im Studium can be found here.
Latest news:
[2013-05-16] New paper by Juliane Stopfer, Boris Egloff, Steffen Nestler, and Mitja Back now in press in the Journal of Research in Personality: “Being popular in online social networks: How agentic, communal, and creativity traits relate to judgments of status and liking”. pdf
[2013-04-26] New paper by Roos Hutteman, Wiebke Bleidorn, G. Keresteš, I. Brković, A. Butković, & J. J. A. Denissen now in press in the European Journal of Personality: "Reciprocal associations between parenting challenges and parents’ personality development in young and middle adulthood." pdf
[2013-04-19] Our research on friendship is featured in the latest issue of EMOTION.