Projects
Integrating Human and Animal Personality Research
The collaborative initiative 'Integrating Human and Animal Personality Research' unites personality psychology with animal personality research. Using an innovative cross-species approach, it addresses fundamental questions about the nature of personality, including its genetic and environmental foundations, its development throughout the lifetime and its impact on behaviour and life outcomes.
Profilbildung 2020: Individualisation in Changing Environments (InChangE)
© JICE In the collaborative research association 'Individualisation in Changing Environments' (InChangE), researchers from the Universities of Bielefeld and Münster investigate the causes, mechanisms and consequences of individualisation in changing environments in an interdisciplinary discourse between the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Personalization TrAIning in Medicine (PerTRAIN)
The research project 'Personalization TrAIning in Medicine (PerTRAIN)' aims to develop a training programme for personalised communication with the help of AI-generated language models and integrate it into medical education.
CRC-TRR 212: Niche Choice, Niche Conformance, Niche Construction (NC³)
© SFB-TRR 212 The Transregio Collaborative Research Centre 212 combines ecology with behavioural, evolutionary and theoretical biology to investigate how interactions between individuals and their environment result in individualised niches through three mechanisms: niche choice, niche conformance and niche construction (NC³).
Associated Projects
FOR 3000: Intraspecific Chemodiversity in Plants
© Universität Bielefeld The DFG-funded Research Unit 'Ecology and Evolution of Intraspecific Chemodiversity in Plants' combines field and laboratory studies with theoretical approaches to investigate the emergence and maintenance of chemical diversity within plant species and its effects on their interactions with the environment.
CRC-TRR 393: Trajectories of Affective Disorders
The Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 393 is a research association of the Universities of Marburg, Münster, Dresden and Bonn as well as KIT Karlsruhe. The participating researchers pursue the overarching objective of understanding factors that influence affective disorders – from symptoms and recurrence to remission – and developing new interventions based on this.
TwinLife: Genetic and Social Causes of Life Chances
© TwinLife TwinLife is a behavioural genetic twin family study on the development of social inequality, which has been funded by the German Research Foundation since 2013. Through annual surveys of twin pairs and their families in Germany, it investigates how genetic and environmental factors contribute to individual social differences.
Emerging Fields
Concepts, Ontologies and Methods of Personality Across Species (COMPAS)
In the interdiciplinary research initiative 'COMPAS', philosophers of science, psychologists and biologists explore how personality is defined and conceptualised, how personality traits are classified, to what extent generalisations across species are possible and how research methods in this domain can be refined, validated and standardised.
Linked Lives
The interdisciplinary research initiative ‘Linked Lives’ explores how individuals select and shape their social relationships and how they develop in response to them. It merges theoretical and empirical insights to improve our understanding of individual differences in social interactions across disciplines, species and types of social relationships.