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Dr. Jana Instinske

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Academic education

05/2025: PhD at the University of Bremen, cumulative doctoral thesis entitled How to not disentangle personality constructs: Scrutinizing longitudinal, multi-rater, and behavioral genetic approaches. Degree: Dr rer. nat. (summa cum laude)
10/2020 - 05/2022: Master programme in Psychology at the University of Bremen. Degree: Master of Science (passed with distinction)
10/2017 - 09/2020: Bachelor programme in Psychology at the University of Bremen. Degree: Bachelor of Science (passed with distinction)

Employment

since 05/2025: Guest researcher at the Department of Psychology at the Bielefeld University, Differential and Personality Psychology, Psychological Assessment and Behavioural Genetics Lab
08/2022 - 09/2025: Research assistant at the Department of Psychology at the University of Bremen, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment Lab
05/2021 - 07/2022: Student assistant at the Department of Psychology at the University of Bremen, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment Lab

Structural equation modeling of longitudinal data, genetically informative data, and multi-rater data
Organization of personality constructs to represent and explain individual differences
Disentanglement between broader dispositions and more specific, environmentally sensitive characteristics

since 03/2025: International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)
since 02/2024: European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)
since 02/2023: Behavior Genetics Association (BGA)
since 02/2023: German Psychological Society (DGPs); Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Psychological Assessment Section (DPPD)