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Ruch, Willibald

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Introduction

Willibald Ruch is a professor for psychology at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He conducts research in the domain of personality and assessment with an emphasis on personality structure and development, temperament research, assessment of positive psychology traits (character strength and virtues, humor and cheerfulness), facial expression and nonverbal behavior, as well as assessment of the fear of being laughed at.

Early Life and Educational Background

Ruch was born on July 22, 1956, in Kühnsdorf, Austria. With a background as a high school teacher for classical guitar, Ruch earned his Ph.D. in 1980 in Psychology and Education at the University of Graz, Austria. His thesis was on the topic of “common structures in humor appreciation and personality” at the School of Natural Sciences, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria.

Professional Career

From 1981 Ruch worked in the Department of Psychology at the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf where he completed...

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  • Ruch, W. (1992a). Pavlov’s types of nervous system, Eysenck’s typology and the Hippocrates-Galen temperaments: An empirical examination of the asserted correspondence of three temperament typologies. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 1259–1271.

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  • Ruch, W. (1992b). Assessment of appreciation of humor: Studies with the 3 WD humor test. In C. D. Spielberger & J. N. Butcher (Eds.), Advances in personality assessment (Vol. 9, pp. 27–75). Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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  • Ruch, W., Köhler, G., & Van Thriel, C. (1996). Assessing the “humorous temperament”: construction of the facet and standard trait forms of the State-Trait-Cherrfulness-Inventory–STCI. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 9, 303–339. doi:10.1515/humr.1996.9.3-4.303

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  • Ruch, W. (1999). Die revidierte fassung des eysenck personality questionnaire und die konstruktion des deutschen EPQ-R bzw. EPQ-RK [The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire—Revised and the construction of the German standard and short versions (EPQ-R and EPQ-RK)]. Zeitschrift für Differentielle und Diagnostische Psychologie, 20, 1–24. doi:10.1024//0170-1789.20.1.1

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  • Ruch, W., & Köhler, G. (1999). The measurement of state and trait cheerfulness. In I. Mervielde, I. Deary, F. De Fruyt, & F. Ostendorf (Eds.), Personality psychology in Europe (Vol. 7, pp. 67–83). Tilburg: Tilburg University Press.

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  • Ruch, W., & Ekman, P. (2001). The expressive pattern of laughter. In A.W. Kaszniak (Ed.), Emotion, qualia, and consciousness (pp. 426–443). Tokyo: Word Scientific Publisher.

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  • Ruch, W., & Proyer, R. T. (2008). Who is gelotophobic? Assessment criteria for the fear of being laughed at. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 67, 19–27.

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  • Ruch, W., Proyer, R. T., Harzer, C., Park, N., Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2010). Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS): Adaptation and validation of the German version and the development of a peer-rating form. Journal of Individual Differences, 31, 138–149. doi:10.1027/1614-0001/a000022.

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  • Ruch, W., Platt, T., Hofmann, J., Niewiadomski, R., Urbain, J., Mancini, M., & Dupont, S. (2014). Gelotophobia and the challenges of implementing laughter into virtual agents interactions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 928. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00928.

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  • Ruch, W., & Proyer, R. T. (2015). Mapping strengths into virtues: The relation of the 24 VIA-strengths to six ubiquitous virtues. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 460. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00460.

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  • Ruch, W., Hofmann, J., & Platt, T. (2015). Individual differences in gelotophobia and responses to laughter-eliciting emotions. Personality and Individual Differences, 72, 117–121. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.034.

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  • Ruch, W., & Heintz, S. (2016). The virtue gap in humor: Exploring benevolent and corrective humor. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2, 35–45. doi:10.1037/tps0000063.

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  1. Department of Psychology - Personality and Assessment, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

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    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

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Ruch, W. (2016). Ruch, Willibald. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_304-1

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