Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Schwaba, T., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2025). Openness/intellect: a unique trait requires unique considerations Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10888683251377228. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683251377227
• Haehner, P., Naudé, L., Hopwood, C. J., Shirima, C. M., Laher, S., Shino, E. N., Asatsa, S., Florence, M., Adonis Tracey-ann, Bleidorn, W., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2025). Personality trait change in three sub-Saharan countries: normative development and life events Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000582
• Hofmann Daniel V., Hopwood, C. J., Laher, S., Asatsa, S., Florence, M., Shino, E. N., Naudé, L., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2025). The Structure of Psychopathology Among Young Adults in Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0001045
• Thalmayer, A. G., Mather, K. A., Saucier, G., Naudé, L., Florence, M., Adonis, T.-A., Shino, E. N., Asatsa, S., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Bächlin, L. Z. M., & Condon, D. M. (2025). The cross-cultural big two: A culturally decentered theoretical and measurement model for personality traits Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128, 1181–1208. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000528
• Rotzinger, J. S., Jensen, L. A., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2025). Ubuntu in Namibia and Kenya: How Emerging Adults Live an Essential African Value Today Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 56, 194–213. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221241309863
• Uugwanga, S. N., Naudé, L., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2025). Becoming an Ovambo Adult: Growing Into Agentic Communalism in Sub-Saharan Africa Psychological Science, 36, 55–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241311920
• Uskul, A. K., Thalmayer, A. G., Bernardo, A. B. I., González, R., Kende, A., Laher, S., Lášticová, B., Saab, R., Salas, G., Singh, P., Zeinoun, P., Norenzayan, A., Chao, M. M., Shoda, Y., & Cooper, M. L. (2024). Challenges and Opportunities for Psychological Research in the Majority World Collabra: Psychology, 10, 123703. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.123703
• Thalmayer, A. G., Asatsa, S., Shino, E. N., Naudé, L., Laher, S., Hassem, T., Florence, M., Adonis, T.-A., Uugwanga, S. N., Rotzinger, J. S., Hofmann, D., Makunda, J., Botha, C., Murangi, A., & Shirima, C. M. (2024). Lifespan research in Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa: Cohort profile of the Africa long life study Personality Science, 5, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/27000710241264492
• Adler, J. M., Bogart, K. R., Frantz, C. M., Salter, P. S., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2024). Two Years Into the Next Chapter at PSPR Personality and Social Psychology Review, 28, 3–10. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683231222416
• Furrer, A., Hofmann, D., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2024). Talking Mental Health with Kenyan Youth: Cognitive Interviews on the International Mental Health Assessment (No. kyb3x; PsyArXiv Preprints). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kyb3x
• Thalmayer, A. G., Marshall, J., & Scalise, K. (2023). The International Mental Health Assessment: Validation of an Efficient Screening Inventory Collabra: Psychology, 9, 74546. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.74546
• Florence, M., Adonis, T.-A., Botha, C., Mpisane, N., Thalmayer, A. G., & Naudé, L. (2023). An international longitudinal research project investigating the psychological development of young adults in South Africa: managing attrition Proceedings of the International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 1986–1992. https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2023.0558
• Claudius, M., Shino, E. N., Job, S., Hofmann, D., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2022). Still Standing Inside: A Local Idiom Related to Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 14323. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114323
• Toscanelli, C., Shino, E., Robinson, S. L., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2022). Religiousness worldwide: translation of the Duke University Religion Index into 20 languages and validation across 27 nations Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 4, 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42409-022-00041-2
• Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., & Rotzinger, J. S. (2022). Absolutism, Relativism, and Universalism in Personality Traits Across Cultures: The Case of the Big Five Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53, 935–956. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221111813
• Jonauskaite, D., Thalmayer, A. G., Müller, L., & Mohr, C. (2021). What does your favourite colour say about your personality? Not much Personality Science, 2, e6297. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.6297
• Thalmayer, A. G., Job, S., Shino, E. N., Robinson, S. L., & Saucier, G. (2021). ǂŪsigu: A mixed-method lexical study of character description in Khoekhoegowab Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121, 1258–1283. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000372
• Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., Shino, E. N., & Job, S. (2021). The Khoekhoegowab Personality Inventory: The Comparative Validity of a Locally Derived Measure of Traits Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 694205. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.694205
• Thalmayer, A. G., Toscanelli, C., & Arnett, J. J. (2021). What American psychology needs most is the majority world: Reply to Webster et al. (2021) American Psychologist, 76, 806–806. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000795
• Thalmayer, A. G., Toscanelli, C., & Arnett, J. J. (2021). The neglected 95% revisited: Is American psychology becoming less American? American Psychologist, 76, 116–129. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000622
• Rossier, J., Atitsogbe, K. A., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2021). Évaluation de la personnalité dans un contexte multilingue et multiculturel In J. Rossier (Ed.), L’évaluation psychologique en contexte multilingue et multiculturel : Questions et enjeux (pp. 205–221). Éditions Mardaga.
• Saucier, G., Iurino, K., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2020). Comparing predictive validity in a community sample: High–dimensionality and traditional domain–and–facet structures of personality variation European Journal of Personality, 34, 1120–1137. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2235
• Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., Ole-Kotikash, L., & Payne, D. (2020). Personality structure in east and west Africa: Lexical studies of personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 1132–1152. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000264
• Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., Srivastava, S., Flournoy, J. C., & Costello, C. K. (2019). Ethics-relevant values in adulthood: Longitudinal findings from the life and time study Journal of Personality, 87, 1119–1135. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12462
• Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., Flournoy, J. C., & Srivastava, S. (2019). Ethics-Relevant Values as Antecedents of Personality Change: Longitudinal Findings from the Life and Time Study Collabra: Psychology, 5, 52. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.244
• Thalmayer, A. G., & Rossier, J. (2019). Agreeableness, antagonism, and mental health across cultures In J. D. Miller & D. R. Lynam (Eds.), The Handbook of Antagonism (pp. 97–111). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-814627-9.00007-4
• Udayar, S., Fiori, M., Thalmayer, A. G., & Rossier, J. (2018). Investigating the link between trait emotional intelligence, career indecision, and self-perceived employability: The role of career adaptability Personality and Individual Differences, 135, 7–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.06.046
• Thalmayer, A. G., Harwood, J. M., Friedman, S., Azocar, F., Watson, L. A., Xu, H., & Ettner, S. L. (2018). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study: Impact on Nonquantitative Treatment Limits for Specialty Behavioral Health Care Health Services Research, 53, 4584–4608. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.12871
• Thalmayer, A. G. (2018). Personality and mental health treatment: Traits as predictors of presentation, usage, and outcome Psychological Assessment, 30, 967–977. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000551
• Friedman, S. A., Thalmayer, A. G., Azocar, F., Xu, H., Harwood, J. M., Ong, M. K., Johnson, L. L., & Ettner, S. L. (2018). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study: Impact on Mental Health Financial Requirements among Commercial “Carve-In” Plans Health Services Research, 53, 366–388. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.12614
• Thalmayer, A. G., Friedman, S. A., Azocar, F., Harwood, J. M., & Ettner, S. L. (2017). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Evaluation Study: Impact on Quantitative Treatment Limits Psychiatric Services, 68, 435–442. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201600110
• Harwood, J. M., Azocar, F., Thalmayer, A., Xu, H., Ong, M. K., Tseng, C.-H., Wells, K. B., Friedman, S., & Ettner, S. L. (2017). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study: Impact on Specialty Behavioral Health Care Utilization and Spending Among Carve-In Enrollees Medical Care, 55, 164–172. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000000635
• Ettner, S. L., M. Harwood, J., Thalmayer, A., Ong, M. K., Xu, H., Bresolin, M. J., Wells, K. B., Tseng, C.-H., & Azocar, F. (2016). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act evaluation study: Impact on specialty behavioral health utilization and expenditures among “carve-out” enrollees Journal of Health Economics, 50, 131–143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.09.009
• Thalmayer, A. G. (2015). Alternative Models of the Outcome Questionnaire-45 European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 31, 120–130. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000216
• Saucier, G., Kenner, J., Iurino, K., Bou Malham, P., Chen, Z., Thalmayer, A. G., & et al. (2015). Cross-Cultural Differences in a Global “Survey of World Views" Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46, 53–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022114551791
• Thalmayer, A. G., & Saucier, G. (2014). The Questionnaire Big Six in 26 Nations: Developing Cross–Culturally Applicable Big Six, Big Five and Big Two Inventories European Journal of Personality, 28, 482–496. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.1969
• Saucier, G., Thalmayer, A. G., Payne, D. L., Carlson, R., Sanogo, L., Ole-Kotikash, L., Church, A. T., Katigbak, M. S., Somer, O., Szarota, P., Szirmák, Z., & Zhou, X. (2014). A Basic Bivariate Structure of Personality Attributes Evident Across Nine Languages Journal of Personality, 82, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12028
• Saucier, G., Thalmayer, A. G., & Bel-Bahar, T. S. (2014). Human attribute concepts: Relative ubiquity across twelve mutually isolated languages Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 199–216. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036492
• Saucier, G., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2013). Cultural, Contextual, and Measurement Challenges for the Paradigm of Personality Science In N. Christiansen & R. Tett (Eds.), The Handbook of Personality at Work (pp. 821–836). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203526910.ch36
• Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., & Eigenhuis, A. (2011). Comparative validity of Brief to Medium-Length Big Five and Big Six Personality Questionnaires Psychological Assessment, 23, 995–1009. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024165