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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 (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)

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 (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 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.