2024

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2024) What are constructs? Ontological nature, epistemological challenges, theoretical foundations and key sources of misunderstandings and confusions. Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory, 34 (4). pp. 280-290. ISSN 1047-840X (Print), 1532-7965 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2023.2274384)

2023

Hanfstingl, Barbara, Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 , Edelsbrunner, Peter A., Dettweiler, Ulrich and Gnambs, Timo (2023) Editorial. From "modern" to "postmodern" psychology: is there a way past? Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1091721. pp. 1-5. ISSN 1664-1078 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1091721)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2023) What’s wrong with rating scales? Psychology’s replication and confidence crisis cannot be solved without transparency in data generation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17 (5):e12740. ISSN 1751-9004 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12740)

2022

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2022) Rating scales institutionalise a network of logical errors and conceptual problems in research practices: A rigorous analysis showing ways to tackle psychology’s crises. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1009893. pp. 1-46. ISSN 1664-1078 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009893)

2021

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2021) Functions of units, scales and quantitative data: fundamental differences in numerical traceability between sciences. Quality and Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 56. pp. 2519-2548. ISSN 0033-5177 (Print), 1573-7845 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01215-6)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2021) Problematic research practices in psychology: Misconceptions about data collection entail serious fallacies in data analysis. Theory & Psychology, 33 (1). pp. 411-416. ISSN 0959-3543 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211014963)

2020

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2020) Psychometrics is not measurement: Unraveling a fundamental misconception in quantitative psychology and the complex network of its underlying fallacies. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 41 (1). pp. 58-84. ISSN 1068-8471 (Print), 2151-3341 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1037/teo0000176)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2020) Quantitative psychology under scrutiny: Measurement requires not result-dependent but traceable data generation. Personality and Individual Differences, 170:110205. ISSN 0191-8869 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110205)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2020) Psychology’s status as a science: peculiarities and intrinsic challenges. Moving beyond its current deadlock towards conceptual integration. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 55 (1). pp. 212-224. ISSN 1932-4502 (Print), 1936-3567 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-020-09545-0)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2020) Measurement in metrology, psychology and social sciences: data generation traceability and numerical traceability as basic methodological principles applicable across sciences. Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 54. pp. 975-1004. ISSN 0033-5177 (Print), 1573-7845 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-020-00970-2)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2020) Human uniqueness explored from the uniquely human perspective: Epistemological and methodological challenges. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 50 (1). pp. 20-24. ISSN 0021-8308 (Print), 1468-5914 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12232)

2018

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2018) Quantitative data from rating scales: An epistemological and methodological enquiry. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2599. ISSN 1664-1078 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02599)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2018) The Transdisciplinary Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals: Foundations for the Science of Personality and Individual Differences. In: Zeigler-Hill, Virgil and Shackelford, Todd K., (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences. Vol. 1. The Science of Personality and Individual Differences. SAGE Publications Ltd, London, UK, pp. 84-109. ISBN 978-1526445179 (doi:https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526451163.n4)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2018) Data generation methods across the empirical sciences: Differences in the study phenomena's accessibility and the processes of data encoding. Quality & Quantity, 53 (1). pp. 221-246. ISSN 0033-5177 (Print), 1573-7845 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-018-0744-3)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 , Trofimova, Irina, Sulis, William, Netter, Petra, Pessoa, Luiz, Posner, Michael I., Rothbart, Mary K., Rusalov, Vladimir, Petersen, Isaac T. and Schmidt, Louis A. (2018) Diversity in action: Exchange of perspectives and reflections on taxonomies of individual differences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1744). ISSN 0962-8436 (Print), 1471-2970 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0172)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2018) Taxonomic models of individual differences: A guide to transdisciplinary approaches. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1744). ISSN 0962-8436 (Print), 1471-2970 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0171)

Trofimova, I., Robbins, T. W., Sulis, W. H. and Uher, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2018) Taxonomies of psychological individual differences: biological perspectives on millennia-long challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1744). ISSN 0962-8436 (Print), 1471-2970 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0152)

2017

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2017) Basic definitions in personality psychology: Challenges for conceptual integrations. European Journal of Personality, 31 (5). pp. 572-573. ISSN 0890-2070 (Print), 1099-0984 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2128)

2016

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2016) What is behaviour? And (when) is language behaviour? A metatheoretical definition. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 46 (4). pp. 475-501. ISSN 0021-8308 (Print), 1468-5914 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12104)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 and Visalberghi, Elisabetta (2016) Observations versus assessments of personality: A five-method multi-species study reveals numerous biases in ratings and methodological limitations of standardised assessments. Journal of Research in Personality, 61. pp. 61-79. ISSN 0092-6566 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.02.003)

2015

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2015) Exploring the workings of the Psyche: Metatheoretical and methodological foundations. In: Valsiner, Jaan, Marsico, Giuseppina, Chaudhary, Nandita, Sato, Tatsuya and Dazzani, Virginia, (eds.) Psychology as the Science of Human Being: The Yokohama Manifesto. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 13 (13). Springer International Publishing, New York, pp. 299-324. ISBN 978-3319210933 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21094-0_18)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2015) Comparing individuals within and across situations, groups and species: Metatheoretical and methodological foundations demonstrated in primate behaviour. In: Emmans, David and Laihinen, ‎Arto, (eds.) Comparative Neuropsychology and Brain Imaging. Neuropsychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 2 . Lit Verlag, Berlin, pp. 223-284. ISBN 978-3643906533 ISSN 00926566 (doi:https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3848.8169)

2014

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2014) Agency enabled by the Psyche: Explorations using the Transdisciplinary Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals. In: Gruber, Craig W., Clark, Matthew G., Klempe, Sven Hroar and Valsiner, Jaan, (eds.) Constraints of Agency: Explorations of Theory in Everyday Life. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 12 (12). Springer, New York, pp. 177-228. ISBN 978-3-319-10129-3 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10130-9_13)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2014) Fundamental challenges of contemporary “personality” research. Physics of Life Reviews, 11 (4). pp. 695-696. ISSN 1571-0645 (Print), 1873-1457 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2014.10.005)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2014) Interpreting "personality" taxonomies: Why previous models cannot capture individual-specific experiencing, behaviour, functioning and development. Major taxonomic tasks still lay ahead. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 49 (4). pp. 600-655. ISSN 1932-4502 (Print), 1936-3567 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-014-9281-3)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2014) Conceiving “personality”: Psychologist’s challenges and basic fundamentals of the Transdisciplinary Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 49 (3). pp. 398-458. ISSN 1932-4502 (Print), 1936-3567 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-014-9283-1)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2014) Developing "personality" taxonomies: Metatheoretical and methodological rationales underlying selection approaches, methods of data generation and reduction principles. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 49 (4). pp. 531-589. ISSN 1932-4502 (Print), 1936-3567 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-014-9280-4)

2013

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 , Werner, Christina S. and Gosselt, Karlijn (2013) From observations of individual behaviour to social representations of personality: Developmental pathways, attribution biases, and limitations of questionnaire methods. Journal of Research in Personality, 47 (5). pp. 647-667. ISSN 0092-6566 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.03.006)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 , Addessi, Elsa and Visalberghi, Elisabetta (2013) Contextualised behavioural measurements of personality differences obtained in behavioural tests and social observations in adult capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Journal of Research in Personality, 47 (4). pp. 427-444. ISSN 0092-6566 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.01.013)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2013) Personality psychology: Lexical approaches, assessment methods, and trait concepts reveal only half of the story—Why it is time for a paradigm shift. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 47 (1). pp. 1-55. ISSN 1932-4502 (Print), 1936-3567 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-013-9230-6)

2011

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2011) Personality in nonhuman primates: What can we learn from human personality psychology? In: Weiss, Alexander, King, James E. and Murray, Lindsay, (eds.) Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects . Springer, New York, pp. 41-76. ISBN 978-1461401759 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0176-6_3)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2011) Individual behavioral phenotypes: An integrative meta-theoretical framework. Why “behavioral syndromes” are not analogs of “personality”. Developmental Psychobiology, 53 (6). pp. 521-548. ISSN 0012-1630 (Print), 1098-2302 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.20544)

2008

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2008) Three methodological core issues of comparative personality research. European Journal of Personality, 22 (5). pp. 475-496. ISSN 0890-2070 (Print), 1099-0984 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/per.688)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 and Call, Josep (2008) How the great apes (Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, Gorilla gorilla) perform on the reversed reward contingency task II: Transfer to new quantities, long-term retention, and the impact of quantity ratios. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122 (2). pp. 204-212. ISSN 0735-7036 (Print), 1939-2087 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7036.122.2.204)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2008) Comparative personality research: Methodological approaches. European Journal of Personality, 22 (5). pp. 427-455. ISSN 0890-2070 (Print), 1099-0984 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/per.680)

2007

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 and Asendorpf, Jens B. (2007) Personality assessment in the Great Apes: Comparing ecologically valid behavior measures, behavior ratings, and adjective ratings. Journal of Research in Personality, 42 (4). pp. 821-838. ISSN 0092-6566 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2007.10.004)

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 , Asendorpf, Jens B. and Call, Josep (2007) Personality in the behaviour of great apes: temporal stability, cross-situational consistency and coherence in response. Animal Behaviour, 75 (1). pp. 99-112. ISSN 0003-3472 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.018)

2006

Vlamings, Petra H. J. M., Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 and Call, Josep (2006) How the great apes (Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, and Gorilla gorilla) perform on the reversed contingency task: The effects of food quantity and food visibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32 (1). pp. 60-70. ISSN 0097-7403 (Print), 1939-2184 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.32.1.60)

2004

Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 and Beyer, Monika Luzi (2004) Thinking in implications: The impact of structural and content variation on the correct recognition of conditional conclusions [in German]. In: Krause, Bodo and Metzler, Peter, (eds.) ZeE-Publikationen. Reihe empirische Evaluationsmethoden. ZeE Verlag, Berlin, pp. 39-55.