Patrick is a Ph.D.-candidate in the Health Psychology program. He graduated from the University of Freiburg with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology (2016) and from Freie Universität Berlin with a Master of Science in Clinical and Health Psychology (2019). Patrick is interested in studying positive events in daily life. In his research, he examines why some people experience more positive events than others and whether people differ in their responses to these positive events.

Positive Events, Personality, Biomarkers, Stress, Health Behaviors, Purpose, Lifespan Development

Wen, J. H., Klaiber, P., DeLongis, A., Slavish, D. C., & Sin, N. L. (2021). Day-to-day associations of sleep with health and well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic in North America. Sleep Health, 7(6), 666-674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2021.09.007  [Preregistration]

Klaiber, P., Wen, J.H., Ong, A.D., Almeida, D.M., & Sin, N.L. (2022). Personality differences in the occurrence and affective correlates of daily positive events. Journal of Personality, 90(3), 441-456, https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12676   [Data | Code]

Ying, F., Wen, J.H., Klaiber, P., DeLongis, A., Slavish, D. C., & Sin, N.L. (in press). Associations between Intraindividual Variability in Sleep and Daily Positive Affect. Affective Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00082-6  [Datasets, Code, & Materials]

Hill, P.L., Klaiber, P., Burrow, A.L., DeLongis, A., & Sin, N.L. (2021). Purposefulness and Daily Life in a Pandemic: Predicting Daily Affect and Physical Symptoms during the First Weeks of the COVID-19 Response, Psychology & Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2021.1914838

Zheng, J., Morstead, T., Sin, N. L., Klaiber, P., Umberson, D., Kamble, S., & DeLongis, A. (2021). Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The Role of Pandemic-Related Stressors, Social Science and Medicine, 270, 113687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113687

Keller, J., Kwasnicka, D., Klaiber, P., Radau, L., Fleig, L. (2021), Effects of Time- and Routine-based Cues on Habit Formation and Plan Enactment: A Randomized Controlled Trial, British Journal of Health Psychology, 26(3), 807-824. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12504  [Data & Preregistration]

Hill, P.L., Klaiber, P., DeLongis, A., & Sin, N.L. (2022). Great, Purposeful Expectations: Predicting Daily Purposefulness during the COVID-19 Response, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 17(1), 89-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1832251

Sin, N.L., Klaiber, P., Wen, J.H., & DeLongis, A. (2021). Helping Amid the Pandemic: Daily Affective and Social Implications of COVID-19-Related Prosocial Activities, The Gerontologist, 61(1), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa140 [Preregistration]

Paulhus, D., Klaiber, P. (2020). HEXACO, Dark Personalities and Brunswik Symmetry, an invited comment on Ashton, M.C., Lee, K. Objections to the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure—And Why Those Objections Fail, European Journal of Personality, 34(4), 511-590. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2284

Sin, N.L., Wen, J.H., Klaiber, P., Buxton, O.M., & Almeida, D.M. (2020). Sleep duration and affective reactivity to stressors and positive events in daily life, Health Psychology, 39(12), 1078–1088. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001033

Klaiber, P., Wen, J.H., DeLongis, A., & Sin, N.L. (2021). The ups and downs of daily life during COVID-19: Age differences in affect, stress, and positive events, The Journal of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological and Social Sciences, 76(2), e30–e37. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa096

Klaiber, P., Whillans, A.V., Chen, F.S. (2018). Long-term health implications of students’ friendship formation during the transition to university, Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being, 10(2), 290-308. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12131

Ward-Griffin, E., Klaiber, P., Collins, H. K., Owens, R. L., Coren, S., & Chen, F. S. (2018). Petting Away Pre-Exam Stress: The Effect of Therapy Dog Sessions on Student Well-Being, Stress and Health, 34(3), 468-473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smi.2804 [Data]

• President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, University of British Columbia (2020)
• R Howard Webster Foundation Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2019)
• Fellow, German National Scholarship Foundation
• First Place Poster Award, Division for Health Psychology of the German Psychological Society (2017)
• Poster Award, Master’s Level Research Conference, Freie Universität Berlin (2019)
• Behavioral and Social Sciences Section Student Registration Award, Gerontological Society of America (2020)
• Mather Institute, Innovative Research on Aging Award (Bronze Award, 2021)
• Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Teaching Assistant Award, Council of Canadian Departments of Psychology (2021)