Academic Publications

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Peer Reviewed Publications

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Matz, S. C., Beck, E., Atherton, O., White, M., Kim, M., Rauthmann, J., Mrozcek, D. & Bogg, T. (2023). The Promise of Personality Science in the Digital Age: How Psychological Targeting Can Be Used to Personalize Behavior Change Interventions at Scale. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

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Schabert, J. et al. (2023). A Global ESM Study of Well-Being During Times of Crises: The CoCo Project. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

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Freiberg, B.+ & Matz, S. C. (2023). Founder personality and entrepreneurial success: A large-scale field study of technology startups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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Peters, H. +, Matz, S. C. & Cerf, M. (2023). Sensory Substitution Can Improve Decision-Making. Computers in Human Behavior.

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Cerf, M., Matz, S. C. & MacIver, M. A. (2023) Participating in a climate futures market increases support for costly climate policies. Nature Climate Change (Policy Brief), 13, 511–512.

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Cerf, M., Matz, S. C. & MacIver M. A. (2023). Participating in a climate prediction market can increase concern about global warming. Nature Climate Change, 13, 523-531.

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Matz, S. C., Bukow, C. S., Peter, H., Dinu, A., Deacons, C. & Stachl, C. (2023). Throwing the cap or throwing in the towel? Using machine learning to predict student retention from socio-demographic characteristics and app-based engagement metrics. Scientific Reports.

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Matz, S. C., Gladstone, J. J. & Farrokhnia, R. A. 2023). Leveraging Psychological Fit to Encourage Saving Behavior. American Psychologist.

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Mueller*+, S.R., Delahunty, F. & Matz, S.C.* (2023). The Impact of the Early Stages of COVID-19 on Mental Health in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Matz, S.C., Hyon, R., Baek, E.C., Parkinson, C., & Cerf. M. (2022). Personality similarity predicts synchronous neural responses in fMRI and EEG data. Scientific Reports, 12, 14325.

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Peters, H.+, Friedrich M. Götz, F. M,  Ebert, T, Müller, S. R.,  Rentfrow, P. J, Gosling, S. D., Obschonka, M., Ames, D. , Potter, J. & Matz, S. C. (2022). Regional personality differences predict variation in early COVID-19 infections and regional mobility patterns. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Lawson*+, M. A. Martin, A. E., Huda, I. & Matz, S. C. (2022). Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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Jachimowicz, J., M., Frey, E. L., Matz, S. C., Jeronimus, B. F., & Galinsky, A. (2022). The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

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Ramon*+, Y., Matz, S. C., Farrokhnia, R. A. & Martens, D. (2022). Explainable AI for Psychological Profiling from Digital Footprints: A Case Study of Big Five Personality Predictions from Spending Data. Information.

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Giorgi, S., Lynn, V., Gupta, K., Ahmed, F., Matz, S. C., Ungar, L., Schwartz, H. A. (2022). Correcting sociodemographic selection bias for population prediction from social media. ICWSM '22.

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Stachl, C., Boyd, R. L., Horstman, K.T, Khambatta, P., Matz, S. C., & Harari, G. M. (2021). Computational personality assessment. Personality Science, 2, 1-22.

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Matz, S.C. (2021). Personal Echo Chambers: Openness-to-experience is linked to higher levels of psychological interest diversity in large-scale behavioral data. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Müller*+, S. R, Chen*, X, Peters, H, Chaintreau, A. & Matz, S. C. (2021). Depression predictions from GPS‑based mobility do not generalize well to large, demographically heterogeneous samples. Scientific Reports.

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Gladstone, J., Garbinsky, E., & Matz, S. C. (2021). When Does Psychological Fit Matter? The Moderating Role of Price on Self-Brand Congruity. Social Psychology and Personality Science.

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Tovanich, N., Centellegher, S., Seghouani, N. B., Gladstone, J., Matz, S. C., & Lepri, B. (2021). Inferring psychological traits from spending categories and dynamic consumption patterns. EPJ Data Science, 10(1), 1-23.

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Bailey*+, E., Matz, S. C.*, Youyou, W. & Iyengar, S. (2020). Authentic Self-Expression on Social Media is Associated with Greater Subjective Well-Being. Nature Communications.

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Ruggeri, K., Garcia-Garzon, E., Maguire, A., Matz, S. C., Huppert, F. (2020). Well-being in Europe: A comprehensive measure to explore populations and profiles. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes.

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Wertenbrock, K., […], Matz, S. C., […] & Zweber, Y. (2020). Autonomy in consumer choice. Marketing Letters.

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Goetz, F+, Ebert, T., Mueller, S. R., Gladstone, J. J. & Matz, S. C. (2020). Spending reflects not only who we are but also who we are around: The joint effects of individual-level and geographic personality on consumption. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Matz, S. C. & Harari, G. (2020). Person-environment transactions: Mapping the relationships between Big Five personality traits, states, and daily places. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Greenberg, D. M.*+, Matz, S. C.*, Schwartz, A. & Frick, K. R. (2020). The self-congruity effect of music. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Mueller+, S., Peters, H., Matz, S. C., Wang, W. & Harari, G. (2020). Everyday Mobility Behaviors Predict Psychological WellBeing Among Young Adults. European Journal of Personality.

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Hall, A+. & Matz, S. C. (2020). Targeting Item-Level Nuances Leads to Small but Robust Improvements in Personality Prediction from Digital Footprints. European Journal of Personality.

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Cerf, M., Matz, S. C. & Berg, A. (2020). Using Blockchain to Improve Decision Making that Benefits the Public Good. Frontiers in Blockchain.

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Cowgill, B., Dell’Acqua, F. & Matz, S. C. (2020). Algorithmic Fairness Rethoric. American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings.

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Matz, S. C., Appel, R., & Kosinski, M. (2019). Privacy in the Age of Psychological Targeting. Current Opinion in Psychology.

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Matz, S. C., Menges, J. I., Stillwell, D. J. & Schwartz, H. A. (2019). Income is predictable from Facebook profiles. PLoSONE.

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Matz, S. C., Segalin, C., Stillwell, D., Müller, S. R. & Bos, M. (2019). Using computational methods to predict personal image appeal. Journal of Consumer Psychology.

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Gladstone, J. J.*, & Matz, S. C.*, Lemaire, A. (2019). Can Psychological Traits be Inferred from Spending: Evidence from Transaction Data. Psychological Science, 30(7):1087-1096.

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Matz, S. C. & Glastone, J.J. (2018). Nice Guys Finish Last: Why and when agreeableness is related to economic hardship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Kulkarni+, V., Kern M. L., Stillwell, D., Kosinski, M., Matz, S. C., Ungar, L., Skiena, S. & Schwartz, A.  (2018). Latent Human Traits in the Language of Social Media: An Open-Vocabulary Approach. PLoSONE.

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Matz, S. C., Kosinski, M., Nave, G., & Stillwell, D. (2018). Reply to Sharp et al.: Psychological targeting produces robust effects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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Matz, S. C., Kosinski, M., Nave, G., & Stillwell, D. (2018). Reply to Eckles et al.: Facebook’s optimization algorithms are highly unlikely to explain the effects of psychological targeting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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Matz, S. C., Kosinski, M., Nave, G., & Stillwell, D. (2017). Psychological Targeting as an Effective Approach to Digital Mass Communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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Matz, S. C. & Netzer, O. (2017). Using Big Data as a Window Into Consumer Psychology. Current Opinion in Behavioral Science, 18, 7-12.

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Matz, S. C., Gladstone, J. J., & Stilwell, D. (2017). In the World of Big Data, Small Effects Can Still Matter: Reply to Boyce et al. Psychological Science, 28(4):547-550.

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Behrendt, P., Matz, S. C. & Goeritz, A. (2017). An integrative model of leadership behaviour. Leadership Quarterly, 28(1), 229-244.

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Müller+, S. R, Harari, G. M., Mehrotra, A., Matz, S. C., Khambatta, P., Musolesi, M., Mascolo, C., Gosling, S. D., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2017). Using human raters to characterize the psychological characteristics of GPS-based places. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 157-160 

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Matz, S. C., Gladstone, J. J. & Stillwell, D. (2016). Money Buys Happiness if Spending Fits our Personality. Psychological Science, 27(5), 715-725.

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Kosinski, M., Matz, S. C., Gosling, S., Popov, V. & Stillwell, D (2015). Facebook as a Social Science Research Tool: Opportunities, Challenges, Ethical Considerations and Practical Guidelines. American Psychologist, 70(6), 543-56.

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Books

S. C. Matz (2022). The Psychology of Technology: Social Science Research in the Age of Big Data. APA.

 

Book Chapters

Beierle, F., Matz, S. C. & Allemand, M. (in press). Mobile Sensing in Personality Science.In Mehl, Wrzus, Eid, Harari & Ebner Priemer, Mobile Sensing in Psychology.

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Lawson, M. A. & Matz., S. C. (2022). Saying more than we know: How Big Data provides a window into the human psyche. In S. C. Matz, The Psychology of Technology. APA.

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Matz., S. C., Appel, R. E., & Croll, B. (2022). Privacy and Ethics in the Age of Big Data. In S. C. Matz, The Psychology of Technology. APA.

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Cerf, M. & Matz., S. C. (2022). The Psychology of Technology: Where the Future Might Take Us. In S. C. Matz, The Psychology of Technology. APA.

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Appel, R. & Matz, S. C. (2021). Psychological Targeting in the Age of Big Data. In Wood, Read, Harms & Slaughter, Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations.

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Matz, S. C., Rolnik, G. & Cerf, M. (2018). Solutions to the threats of digital monopolies. In Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration.

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Plohl, N., Stuhlreyer, J., Ruggeri, K. & Matz, S. C. (2018). Chapter 10: Communications. In Ruggeri, K. (Ed.). Behavioral Insights for Evidence-Based Policy. Routledge.

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Matz, S. C. & Hirsh, J. (2017). Marketing and Personality. In Carducci, B. J. (eds), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Matz, S. C. (2016). Personality-customised advertising in the digital environment. In C. Jansson-Boyd & M. Zawisza (eds), International Handbook of Consumer Psychology. Taylor & Francis.

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Matz, S. C., Chan, Y. & Kosinski, M. (2016). Models of Personality. In Tkalcic, Decarolis, Kosir & Odić (eds), Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems. Springer

 

Behrendt, P. & Matz, S. C. (2014). Wie Sie Probleme lösen anstatt sie zu fokussieren. In A. Ryba, D. Pauw, D. Ginati & S. Rietmann (Hrsg.), Professionnell coachen. Das Methodenbuch: Beltz.

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Other Publications

Matz, S.C. (2023). What Psychological Targeting Can (and Cannot Do), and How to Use it Right. Harvard Business Review (Print Magazine)

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Matz, S. C. (2022). Now isn’t the time to give users control over their data. Wired

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Matz, S. C., Appel, R. & Kosinski, M. (2019). Rethinking Privacy in the Age of Psychological Targeting. London School of Economics Blog

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Matz, S. C (2018). Psychological microtargeting could actually save politics. Wired.

 

Cerf, M., Matz, S. C. & Rolnik, G. (2018). There’s still time to stop the tech monopoly takeover. Fortune Magazine.

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Graves, C. & Matz, S. C. (2018). What marketers should now about personality-based marketing. Harvard Business Review.

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Jachimowicz, J. Matz, S. C. & Polonski, V. (2017). The Behavioral Scientist’s Ethics Checklist. The Behavioral Scientist.

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