Early Life and Educational Background
Peter Borkenau was born on October 26, 1949, in Bad Nauheim, Germany. He earned his Diploma in Psychology from Heidelberg University at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1975, and his Ph.D. in personality psychology from Heidelberg University, Germany, in 1982 under the direction of Manfred Amelang.
Professional Career
Peter Borkenau taught at Heidelberg University, Germany, from 1979 to 1983, at Bielefeld University, Germany, from 1983 to 1993, at Jena University, Germany, from 1993 to 1995, and at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, from 1995 to 2015. He retired in 2015, authoring about 150 publications during his career which appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, European Journal of Personality, Journal of Research in Personality, and Personality and Individual Differences. Peter Borkenau has served as the Editor of the European Journal of Personalityfrom 1996 to 2000 and as...
Selected Bibliography
Amelang, M., & Borkenau, P. (1982). Über die faktorielle Struktur und externe Validität einiger Fragebogen-Skalen zur Erfassung von Dimensionen der extraversion und emotionalen Labilität [on the factor structure and external validity of some inventory scales assessing extraversion and emotional lability]. Zeitschrift für Differentielle und Diagnostische Psychologie, 3, 119–146.
Borkenau, P. (1986). Toward an understanding of trait interrelations: Acts as instances for several traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 371–381.
Borkenau, P. (1992). Implicit personality theory and the five-factor model. Journal of Personality, 60, 295–329.
Borkenau, P., & Liebler, A. (1992). Trait inferences: Sources of validity at zero acquaintance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 645–657. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.62.4.645.
Borkenau, P., & Liebler, A. (1993). Convergence of stranger ratings of personality and intelligence with self-ratings, partner ratings, and measured intelligence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 546–553. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.65.3.546.
Borkenau, P., & Liebler, A. (1995). Observable attributes as cues and manifestations of personality and intelligence. Journal of Personality, 63, 1–25.
Borkenau, P., & Ostendorf, F. (1987). Retrospective estimates of act frequencies: How accurately do they reflect reality? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 626–638.
Borkenau, P., & Ostendorf, F. (1998). The Big Five as states: How useful is the five-factor model to describe intraindividual variations over time? Journal of Research in Personality, 32, 202–221.
Borkenau, P., Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Spinath, F. M. (2001). Genetic and environmental influences on observed personality: Evidence from the German Observational Study of Adult Twins. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 655–668.
Borkenau, P., Mauer, N., Riemann, R., Spinath, F. M., & Angleitner, A. (2004). Thin slices of behavior as cues of personality and intelligence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 599–614.
Borkenau, P., Riemann, R., Spinath, F. M., & Angleitner, A. (2006). Genetic and environmental influences on person x situation profiles. Journal of Personality, 74, 1451–1479.
Borkenau, P., Brecke, S., Möttig, C., & Paelecke, M. (2009). Extraversion is accurately perceived after a 50-ms exposure to a face. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 703–706.
Borkenau, P., Mosch, A., Tandler, N., & Wolf, A. (2016). Accuracy of judgments of personality based on textual information on major life domains. Journal of Personality, 84, 214–224. doi:10.1111/jopy.12153.
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Borkenau, P. (2017). Borkenau, Peter. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_382-1
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