Dr. Niclas Kuper
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
Consultation-hour: By arrangement via E-Mail Phone: +49 (2 51) 83 - 3 42 03 E-Mail: niclas.kuper [at] uni-muenster.de |
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Positions
since 05 / 2025 Postdoc (PI) in DFG-funded project “Individual Differences in Situational Contingencies as Personality Variables: A Multi-Methodological Investigation in Social Situations“, University of Münster06 / 2023 - 04 / 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Interdisciplinary collaborative project: Individualisation in Changing Environments (InChangE), University of Münster and Bielefeld University
02 / 2023 – 05 / 2023 Research Associate, Department of Psychological Assessment and Personality Psychology, University of Münster
04 / 2020 – 01 / 2023 Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Psychological Assessment, Bielefeld University
11 / 2019 – 01 / 2020 Research Assistant, Department of Psychological Assessment and Differential Psychology, University of Lübeck
Education
04 / 2020 – 05/2023 PhD student funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation at the Department of Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Psychological Assessment,Bielefeld University. Dissertation: “Personality Dynamics and Interactionism: The Interplay of Persons, Situations, and States”
10 / 2017 – 07 / 2019 M.Sc. Psychology, University of Hamburg
10 / 2014 – 09 / 2016 B.Sc. Psychology, University of Hamburg
Publications
in press
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018in press
Hätscher, O., Breitmoser, Y., Kaiser, M. I., Klinz, J. L., Kroencke, L., Kuper, N., Mõttus, R., Niemeyer, L. M., Scharbert, J., Vainik, U., & Back, M. D. (in press). Who stands out? Defining, measuring, and uncovering the elements of unusualness. European Journal of Personality. pdf OSF
Humberg, S., Kuper, N., Rentzsch, K., Gerlach, T. M., Back, M. D., & Nestler, S. (in press). Investigating the effects of congruence between within-person associations: A comparison of two extensions of response surface analysis. Psychological Methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000666 supplemental materials preprint
Kuper, N., Ernesti, L., Modersitzki, N., Phan, L. V., & Rauthmann, J. F. (in press). Distinctions without differences? Effects of instruction sets for situation characteristic ratings. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. pdf
Kuper, N., Gardiner, G., Baranski, E., Funder, D. C., Members of the International Situations Project, & Rauthmann, J. F. (in press). Cultural differences in the personality triad: The interplay of personality traits, situation characteristics, and behavioral states around the world. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.preprint pdf
Rauthmann, J., Phan, L. V., Kuper, N., Modersitzki, N., & Quirin, M. (in press). Integrating nomothetics and idiographics in personality science and beyond. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251358117 pdf
2026
Hätscher, O., Klinz, J. L., Kuper, N., Kroencke, L., Scharbert, J., Grunenberg, E., & Back, M. D. (2026). Using machine learning to predict individual differences in psychological reactivities to social interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,130,(3), 569–596. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000589 pdf OSF
2025
Kuper, N., Andresen, P. K., Beck, E. D., Costantini, G., Hamaker, E. L., Wright, A. G. C., & Zimmermann, J. (2025). From persons to general principles: Methodological decisions for idiographic and nomothetic research. European Journal of Personality, 39(4), 635-661. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241278020 pdf
Kuper, N., Breitmoser, Y., Caspers, B., Dammhahn, M., Gadau, J., Kaiser, M. I., Kandler, C., Kroh, M., Krüger, O., Kurtz, J., Lemola, S., Rauthmann, J. F., Richter, S. H., Voelcker-Rehage, C., & Back, M. D. (2025). An interdisciplinary linked-lives approach to individual differences in social behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(10), 2012-2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02301-7 pdf
Phan, L. V., Modersitzki, N., Kuper, N., Beckmann, N., Fajkowska, M., Gollwitzer, M., Horstmann, K. T., Quirin, M., Renner, K.-H., Wright, A. G., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2025). Beyond nomothetics and idiographics: Towards a systematization of personality research approaches. European Journal of Personality, 39(2), 233-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241301633 pdf
Rauthmann, J. F., & Kuper, N. (2025). The landscape of personality psychology in the new millennium: A systematic keyword analysis of journal articles from 2000 to 2021. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(3), 722-763.https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000532 pdf
Stanke, F. A., Kuper, N., Fetz, K., & Echterhoff, G. (2025). Muslims’ psychological responses to subtle versus blatant expressions of anti-Muslim prejudice. Collabra: Psychology, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.138502 pdf
2024
Bott, A., Brockmann, L., Denneberg, I., Henken, E., Kuper, N., Kruse, F., & Degner, J. (2024). Spontaneous trait inferences from behavior: A systematic meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 50(1), 78-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221100336 supplemental materials pdf
Kuper, N., von Garrel, A. S., Wiernik, B. M., Phan, L. V., Modersitzki, N., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2024). Distinguishing four types of Person × Situation Interactions: An integrative Framework and empirical examination. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(2), 282-311. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000473 preprint supplemental materials pdf
Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Aldoh, A., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Azevedo, F., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Beitner, J., Brick, C., Brohmer, H., Chandrashekar, S. P., Chung, K. L., Cockcroft, J. P., Cummins, J., Diveica, V., Dumbalska, T., Efendic, E., Elsherif, M., Evans, T., Feldman, G., Fillon, A., Förster, N., Frese, J., Genschow, O., Giannouli, V., Gjoneska, B., Gnambs, T., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Graham, C. J., Hartmann, H., Haviva, C., Herderich, A., Hilbert, L. P., Holgado, D., Hussey, I., Ilchovska, Z. G., Kalandadze, T., Karhulahti, V.-M., Kasseckert, L., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Koppold, A., Korbmacher, M., Kulke, L., Kuper, N., LaPlume, A., Leech, G., Lohkamp, F., Lou, N. M., Lynott, D., Maier, M., Meier, M., Montefinese, M., Moreau, D., Mrkva, K., Nemcova, M., Oomen, D., Packheiser, J., Pandey, S., Papenmeier, F., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Pavlović, Z., Pennington, C. R., Pittelkow, M.-M., Plomp, W., Plonski, P. E., Pronizius, E., Pua, A. A., Pypno-Blajda, K., Rausch, M., Rebholz, T. R., Richert, E., Röer, J. P., Ross, R., Schmidt, K., Skvortsova, A., Sperl, M. F. J., Tan, A. W. M., Thürmer, J. L., Tołopiło, A., Vanpaemel, W., Vaughn, L. A., Verheyen, S., Wallrich, L., Weber, L., Wolska, J. K., Zaneva, M., & Zhang, Y. (2024). The replication database: Documenting the replicability of psychological science.
Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12(8), pp. 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101 pdfStanke, F. A., Kuper, N., Fetz, K., & Echterhoff, G. (2024). Discriminatory, yet socially accepted? Targets’ perceptions of subtle and blatant expressions of ethno-racial prejudice. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2, Article 1343514. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsps.2024.1343514 pdf
2023
Kroencke, L., Kuper, N., Mota, S., Geukes, K., Zeigler-Hill, V., & Back, M. D. (2023). Narcissistic status pursuit in everyday social life: A within-person process approach to the behavioral and emotional dynamics of narcissism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(6),1519–1541. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000467 preprint supplemental materials pdf
Kuper, N., Kroencke, L., Harari, G. M., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2023). Who benefits from which activity? On the relations between personality traits, leisure activities, and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(1), 141–172. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000438 preprint supplemental materials pdf
2022
Kuper, N., Breil, S. M., Horstmann, K. T., Roemer, L., Lischetzke, T., Sherman, R. A., Back, M. D., Denissen, J. J. A., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2022). Individual differences in contingencies between situation characteristics and personality states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(5), 1166–1198. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000435 preprint supplemental materials pdf
Ohmann, H. A., Kuper, N., & Wacker, J. (2022). Examining the reliability and validity of two versions of the Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT). PLoS ONE, 17(1), e0262902. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262902 supplemental materials pdf
2021
Kuper, N., Modersitzki, N., Phan, L. V., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2021). The dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of personality: An overview of the field. British Journal of Psychology, 112(1), 1-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12486 pdf
Kuper, N., Modersitzki, N., Phan, L. V., & Rauthmann, J. (2021). The situation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A snapshot in Germany. PloS ONE, 16(2), e0245719. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245719 supplemental materials pdf
Kroencke, L., Kuper, N., Bleidorn, W., & Denissen, J. (2021). How does substance use affect personality development? Disentangling between-and within-person effects. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(4), 517-527. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620921702 pdf
Modersitzki, N., Phan, L. V., Kuper, N., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2021). Who is impacted? Personality predicts individual differences in psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(6), 1110-1130. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620952576 preprint supplemental materials pdf
2020
Kroencke, L., Geukes, K., Utesch, T., Kuper, N., & Back, M. D. (2020). Neuroticism and emotional risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Research in Personality, 89, 104038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104038 pdf
Ohmann, H. A., Kuper, N., & Wacker, J. (2020). A low dosage of the dopamine D2-receptor antagonist sulpiride affects effort allocation for reward regardless of trait extraversion. Personality Neuroscience, 3, Article e7. https://doi.org/10.1017/pen.2020.7 pdf
Phan, L. V., Modersitzki, N., Kuper, N., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2020). Comparing the nomological networks of the Big Five and HEXACO models. European Journal of Personality, 34(4), 544–545. pdf
Van Halem, S., Van Roekel, E., Kroencke, L., Kuper, N., & Denissen, J. (2020). Moments that matter? On the complexity of using triggers based on skin conductance to sample arousing events within an experience sampling framework. European Journal of Personality, 34(5), 794–807. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2252 pdf
2019
Kuper, N., Käckenmester, W., & Wacker, J. (2019). Resting frontal EEG asymmetry and personality traits: A meta-analysis. European Journal of Personality, 33(2), 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2197 supplemental materials pdf
Kuper, N., & Bott, A. (2019). Has the evidence for moral licensing been inflated by publication bias? Meta-Psychology, 3, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2018.878 supplemental materials pdf
2018
Ohmann, H. A., Kuper, N., & Wacker, J. (2018). Left frontal anodal tDCS increases approach motivation depending on reward attributes. Neuropsychologia, 119, 417-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.09.002 pdf
Funding, Awards, and Scholarships
2025-2028
DFG Project: Individual Differences in Situational Contingencies as Personality Variables: A Multi-Methodological Investigation in Social Situations (534,739 €)2025
Sage Emerging Scholar Award (Society for Personality and Social Psychology)2024-2025
Seed funding from the Joint Institute for Individualisation in a Changing Environment, Individualised Paths to Well-Being, together with Dr. Lara Kröncke (10,000 €)2023
Emerging Scholar Award (Association for Research in Personality)2020-2023
Doctoral scholarship (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)2019
Master thesis prize, University of Hamburg2017-2019
Student scholarship (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
Journal Reviewer and Editor
since 2025
Guest editor, Personality Science, Special Issue: “Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology”since 2024
Editorial board member, Journal of Personality and Social Psychologysince 2022
Emerging editorial board member, Personality and Social Psychology Reviewsince 2019
Ad Hoc reviewer for 23 journals