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Issue Information European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-12-18
No abstract is available for this article.
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Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move Beyond the Big Few Traits European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 René Mõttus, Dustin Wood, David M. Condon, Mitja D. Back, Anna Baumert, Giulio Costantini, Sacha Epskamp, Samuel Greiff, Wendy Johnson, Aaron Lukaszewski, Aja Murray, William Revelle, Aidan G.C. Wright, Tal Yarkoni, Matthias Ziegler, Johannes Zimmermann
We argue that it is useful to distinguish between three key goals of personality science—description, prediction and explanation—and that attaining them often requires different priorities and methodological approaches. We put forward specific recommendations such as publishing findings with minimum a priori aggregation and exploring the limits of predictive models without being constrained by parsimony
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Issue Information European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-11-05
No abstract is available for this article.
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Investigating the Relationships Between Mobility Behaviours and Indicators of Subjective Well‐Being Using Smartphone‐Based Experience Sampling and GPS Tracking European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Sandrine R. Müller, Heinrich Peters, Sandra C. Matz, Weichen Wang, Gabriella M. Harari
People interact with their physical environments every day by visiting different places and moving between them. Such mobility behaviours likely influence and are influenced by people's subjective well‐being. However, past research examining the links between mobility behaviours and well‐being has been inconclusive. Here, we provide a comprehensive investigation of these relationships by examining
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How Are Personality States Associated with Smartphone Data? European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-10-11 Dominik Rüegger, Mirjam Stieger, Marcia Nißen, Mathias Allemand, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch
Smartphones promise great potential for personality science to study people's everyday life behaviours. Even though personality psychologists have become increasingly interested in the study of personality states, associations between smartphone data and personality states have not yet been investigated. This study provides a first step towards understanding how smartphones may be used for behavioural
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Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Nele M. Wessels, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising
This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was compared for three types of judgement: direct predictions of
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Using Big Data and Machine Learning in Personality Measurement: Opportunities and Challenges European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Leo Alexander, Evan Mulfinger, Frederick L. Oswald
This conceptual paper examines the promises and critical challenges posed by contemporary personality measurement using big data. More specifically, the paper provides (i) an introduction to the type of technologies that give rise to big data, (ii) an overview of how big data is used in personality research and how it might be used in the future, (iii) a framework for approaching big data in personality
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Personality Sensing for Theory Development and Assessment in the Digital Age European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Gabriella M. Harari, Sumer S. Vaid, Sandrine R. Müller, Clemens Stachl, Zachariah Marrero, Ramona Schoedel, Markus Bühner, Samuel D. Gosling
People around the world own digital media devices that mediate and are in close proximity to their daily behaviours and situational contexts. These devices can be harnessed as sensing technologies to collect information from sensor and metadata logs that provide fine‐grained records of everyday personality expression. In this paper, we present a conceptual framework and empirical illustration for personality
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Bringing Back the Person into Behavioural Personality Science Using Big Data European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-09-13 Karl‐Heinz Renner, Stephanie Klee, Timo von Oertzen
Behaviour and the individual person are important but widely neglected topics of personality psychology. We argue that new technologies to collect and new methods to analyse Big (Behavioural) Data have the potential to bring back both more behaviour and the individual person into personality science. The call for studying the individual person in the history of personality science, the related idiographic/nomothetic
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Interregional and intraregional variability of intergroup attitudes predict online hostility European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-09-13 Hannes Rosenbusch, Anthony M. Evans, Marcel Zeelenberg
To what extent are intergroup attitudes associated with regional differences in online aggression and hostility? We test whether regional attitude biases towards minorities and their local variability (i.e. intraregional polarization) independently predict verbal hostility on social media. We measure online hostility using large US American samples from Twitter and measure regional attitudes using
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Issue Information European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-08-26
No abstract is available for this article.
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The Dynamics of Personality Approach (DPA): 20 Tenets for Uncovering the Causal Mechanisms of Personality European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-08-23 Markus Quirin, Michael D. Robinson, John F. Rauthmann, Julius Kuhl, Stephen J. Read, Mattie Tops, Colin G. DeYoung
Over the last few decades, most personality psychology research has been focused on assessing personality via scores on a few broad traits and investigating how these scores predict various behaviours and outcomes. This approach does not seek to explain the causal mechanisms underlying human personality and thus falls short of explaining the proximal sources of traits as well as the variation of individuals'
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On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and Its Relation With Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 S. Weiss, D. Steger, Y. Kaur, A. Hildebrandt, U. Schroeders, O. Wilhelm
Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N = 152 and N = 298), we evaluate competing measurement models
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An Adaptationist Framework for Personality Science European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-08-06 Aaron W. Lukaszewski, David M.G. Lewis, Patrick K. Durkee, Aaron N. Sell, Daniel Sznycer, David M. Buss
The field of personality psychology aspires to construct an overarching theory of human nature and individual differences: one that specifies the psychological mechanisms that underpin both universal and variable aspects of thought, emotion, and behaviour. Here, we argue that the adaptationist toolkit of evolutionary psychology provides a powerful meta‐theory for characterizing the psychological mechanisms
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Sometimes Hot, Sometimes Not: The Relations Between Selected Situational Vocational Interests and Situation Perception European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Lena Roemer, Kai T. Horstmann, Matthias Ziegler
Vocational interests are traditionally conceived as stable preferences for different activities. However, recent theorizing suggests their intraindividual variability. This preregistered experience sampling study examined intraindividual variation in selected vocational interests states and related situation and person factors (N = 237). Results indicate that the three interest dimensions Investigative
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Understanding Personality through Patterns of Daily Socializing: Applying Recurrence Quantification Analysis to Naturalistically Observed Intensive Longitudinal Social Interaction Data European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Alexander F. Danvers, David A. Sbarra, Matthias R. Mehl
Ambulatory assessment methods provide a rich approach for studying daily behaviour. Too often, however, these data are analysed in terms of averages, neglecting patterning of this behaviour over time. This paper describes recurrence quantification analysis (RQA), a non‐linear time series technique for analysing dynamic systems, as a method for analysing patterns of categorical, intensive longitudinal
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The Affiliative Role of Empathy in Everyday Interpersonal Interactions European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Whitney R. Ringwald, Aidan G.C. Wright
Empathy theoretically serves an affiliative interpersonal function by satisfying motives for intimacy and union with others. Accordingly, empathy is expected to vary depending on the situation. Inconsistent empirical support for empathy's affiliative role may be because of methodology focused on individual differences in empathy or differences between controlled experimental conditions, which fail
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Development and Validation of the Personal Values Dictionary: A Theory‐Driven Tool for Investigating References to Basic Human Values in Text European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Vladimir Ponizovskiy, Murat Ardag, Lusine Grigoryan, Ryan Boyd, Henrik Dobewall, Peter Holtz
Estimating psychological constructs from natural language has the potential to expand the reach and applicability of personality science. Research on the Big Five has produced methods to reliably assess personality traits from text, but the development of comparable tools for personal values is still in the early stages. Based on the Schwartz theory of basic human values, we developed a dictionary
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Personality in Action: Assessing Personality to Identify an ‘Ideal’ Conscientious Response Type with Two Different Behavioural Tasks European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Gabriela Gniewosz, Tuulia M. Ortner, Thomas Scherndl
Performance on achievement tests is characterized by an interplay of different individual attributes such as personality traits, motivation or cognitive styles. However, the prediction of individuals' performance from classical self‐report personality measures obtained during large and comprehensive aptitude assessments is biased by, for example, subjective response tendencies. This study goes beyond
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The Actor, Agent, and Author Across the Life Span: Interrelations Between Personality Traits, Life Goals, and Life Narratives in an Age‐Heterogeneous Sample European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Janina Larissa Bühler, Rebekka Weidmann, Alexander Grob
According to the integrative framework for studying people, personality manifests and develops along three separate, but related, levels: the actor (e.g. traits), agent (e.g. goals), and author (i.e. narratives). Although these levels are thought to be conceptually interrelated, few studies have empirically examined such interrelations. To address this gap, the present study tested how traits, goals
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Analysing Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Big Five, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Laura J. Botzet, Julia M. Rohrer, Ruben C. Arslan
Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would predict even stronger linear effects in poorer countries.
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Your Personality Does Not Care Whether You Believe It Can Change: Beliefs About Whether Personality Can Change Do Not Predict Trait Change Among Emerging Adults European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Nathan W. Hudson, R. Chris Fraley, Daniel A. Briley, William J. Chopik
Theorists have suggested that beliefs about whether personality can change might operate in a self‐fulfilling fashion, leading to growth in personality traits across time. In the present two studies, we collected intensive longitudinal data from a total of 1339 emerging adults (ns = 254 and 1085) and examined the extent to which both global beliefs that personality can change (e.g. ‘You can change
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Indicators of Affect Dynamics: Structure, Reliability, and Personality Correlates European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Leon P. Wendt, Aidan G.C. Wright, Paul A. Pilkonis, William C. Woods, Jaap J.A. Denissen, Anja Kühnel, Johannes Zimmermann
Researchers are increasingly interested in the affect dynamics of individuals for describing and explaining personality and psychopathology. Recently, the incremental validity of more complex indicators of affect dynamics (IADs; e.g. autoregression) has been called into question (Dejonckheere et al., 2019), with evidence accumulating that these might convey little unique information beyond mean level
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Do Sojourn Effects on Personality Trait Changes Last? A Five‐Year Longitudinal Study European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Julia Richter, Julia Zimmermann, Franz J. Neyer, Christian Kandler
This study examined sojourners' long‐term personality trait changes over five years, extending previous research on immediate sojourn effects. A sample of German students (N = 1095) was surveyed thrice (T1–T3) over the course of an academic year. Sojourners (n = 498) lived abroad shortly after T1 for one or two semesters; stayers (n = 597) remained in their home country. Five years after T1, we surveyed
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Intraindividual Variability in Narrative Identity: Complexities, Garden Paths, and Untapped Research Potential European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-19 Monisha Pasupathi, Robyn Fivush, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Kate C. McLean
This paper introduces key concepts for studying intraindividual variability in narratives (narrative IIV). Narrative IIV is conceptualized in terms of sources of within‐person variation (events and audiences) and dimensions of variation (structural and motivational/affective dimensions of narratives). Possible implications of narrative IIV for well‐being and self and social development are outlined
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‘Personality in Its Natural Habitat’ Revisited: A Pooled, Multi‐sample Examination of the Relationships Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Daily Behaviour and Language Use European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-16 Allison M. Tackman, Erica N. Baranski, Alexander F. Danvers, David A. Sbarra, Charles L. Raison, Suzanne A. Moseley, Angelina J. Polsinelli, Matthias R. Mehl
Past research using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), an observational ambulatory assessment method for the real‐world measurement of daily behaviour, has identified several behavioural manifestations of the Big Five domains in a small college sample (N = 96). With the use of a larger and more diverse sample of pooled data from N = 462 participants from a total of four community samples
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Psychometric and Validity Issues in Machine Learning Approaches to Personality Assessment: A Focus on Social Media Text Mining European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-16 Louis Tay, Sang Eun Woo, Louis Hickman, Rachel M. Saef
In the age of big data, substantial research is now moving toward using digital footprints like social media text data to assess personality. Nevertheless, there are concerns and questions regarding the psychometric and validity evidence of such approaches. We seek to address this issue by focusing on social media text data and (i) conducting a review of psychometric validation efforts in social media
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Developmental Pathways of Preadolescents' Intrinsic and Extrinsic Values: The Role of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-15 Jiseul Sophia Ahn, Johnmarshall Reeve
The purpose of the study was to examine longitudinally how intrinsic and extrinsic values develop during preadolescence within a mother–child context by comparing three different developmental pathways—direct value transmission, indirect value transmission, and value origination. Two hundred and thirty‐three Korean mother–child dyads of late elementary students (Mage = 11.4 years; 55% girls) participated
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In Person, Online, and Up Close: The Cross‐contextual Consistency of Expressive Accuracy European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-09 Lauren J. Human, Katherine H. Rogers, Jeremy C. Biesanz
People vary widely in their expressive accuracy, the tendency to be viewed in line with one's unique traits. It is unclear, however, whether expressive accuracy is a stable individual difference that transcends social contexts or a more piecemeal, context‐specific characteristic. The current research therefore examined the consistency of expressive accuracy across three social contexts: face‐to‐face
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Psychological and Behavioural Responses to Coronavirus Disease 2019: The Role of Personality. European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-07-08 Damaris Aschwanden,Jason E Strickhouser,Amanda A Sesker,Ji Hyun Lee,Martina Luchetti,Yannick Stephan,Angelina R Sutin,Antonio Terracciano
This study examined the associations between personality traits and psychological and behavioural responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Personality was assessed in January/February 2020 when the public was not aware of the spread of coronavirus in the USA. Participants were reassessed in late March 2020 with four sets of questions about the pandemic: concerns, precautions,
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When Impulsive Behaviours Do Not Equal Self‐Control Failures: The (Added) Value of Temptation Enactment European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-06-29 Amir Ghoniem, Wilhelm Hofmann
Most work on self‐control and impulsivity typically assumes, more or less tacitly, that people value self‐control as more important than succumbing to temptations. According to this narrative, people regard impulsive behaviours as ‘failures’ of self‐control and experience negative self‐evaluations such as feelings of guilt or shame in response. Here, we direct attention to a neglected but crucial meta‐behavioural
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Subjectifying the Personality State: Theoretical Underpinnings and an Empirical Example European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Gal Lazarus, Haran Sened, Eshkol Rafaeli
Recent developments in personality research highlight the value of modelling dynamic state‐like manifestations of personality. The present work integrates these developments with prominent clinical models addressing within‐person multiplicity and promotes the exploration of models centred on state‐like manifestations of personality that function as cohesive organizational units. Such units possess
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Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-06-21 Julius Frankenbach, Tim Wildschut, Jacob Juhl, Constantine Sedikides
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, confers self‐oriented, existential, and social benefits. We examined whether nostalgic engagement is less beneficial for individuals who are high in neuroticism (i.e. emotionally unstable and prone to negative affect). Specifically, we tested whether the benefits of experimentally induced nostalgia are moderated by trait‐level neuroticism
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Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and After Becoming a Parent European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea. Here, we used data from a nationally representative household panel study from Germany (N = 19 875) to examine whether becoming a parent relates
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Issue Information European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-06-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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Testing the Information‐Seeking Theory of Openness/Intellect European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-06-08 Hayley K. Jach, Luke D. Smillie
Why are open people open? A recent theory suggests that openness/intellect reflects sensitivity to the reward value of information, but so far, this has undergone few direct tests. To assess preferences for information, we constructed a novel task, adapted from information‐seeking paradigms within decision science, in which participants could choose to see information related to a guessing game they
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Tracing Personality Structure in Narratives: A Computational Bottom‐Up Approach to Unpack Writers, Characters, and Personality in Historical Context European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Ronald Fischer, Johannes Alfons Karl, Markus Luczak‐Roesch, Velichko H. Fetvadjiev, Adam Grener
We present a new method for personality assessment at a distance to uncover personality structure in historical texts. We focus on how two 19th century authors understood and described human personality; we apply a new bottom‐up computational approach to extract personality dimensions used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to describe fictional characters in 21 novels. We matched personality descriptions
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Modelling the Incremental Value of Personality Facets: The Domains‐Incremental Facets‐Acquiescence Bifactor Model European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Daniel Danner, Clemens M. Lechner, Christopher J. Soto, Oliver P. John
Personality can be described at different levels of abstraction. Whereas the Big Five domains are the dominant level of analysis, several researchers have called for more fine‐grained approaches, such as facet‐level analysis. Personality facets allow more comprehensive descriptions, more accurate predictions of outcomes, and a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying trait–outcome relationships
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To Challenge the Morning Lark and the Night Owl: Using Smartphone Sensing Data to Investigate Day–Night Behaviour Patterns European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-05-31 Ramona Schoedel, Florian Pargent, Quay Au, Sarah Theres Völkel, Tobias Schuwerk, Markus Bühner, Clemens Stachl
For decades, day–night patterns in behaviour have been investigated by asking people about their sleep–wake timing, their diurnal activity patterns, and their sleep duration. We demonstrate that the increasing digitalization of lifestyle offers new possibilities for research to investigate day–night patterns and related traits with the help of behavioural data. Using smartphone sensing, we collected
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Personality Research and Assessment in the Era of Machine Learning European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-05-28 Clemens Stachl, Florian Pargent, Sven Hilbert, Gabriella M. Harari, Ramona Schoedel, Sumer Vaid, Samuel D. Gosling, Markus Bühner
The increasing availability of high‐dimensional, fine‐grained data about human behaviour, gathered from mobile sensing studies and in the form of digital footprints, is poised to drastically alter the way personality psychologists perform research and undertake personality assessment. These new kinds and quantities of data raise important questions about how to analyse the data and interpret the results
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Tracking Fluctuations in Psychological States Using Social Media Language: A Case Study of Weekly Emotion European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-05-21 Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Aaron C. Weidman
Personality psychologists are increasingly documenting dynamic, within‐person processes. Big data methodologies can augment this endeavour by allowing for the collection of naturalistic and personality‐relevant digital traces from online environments. Whereas big data methods have primarily been used to catalogue static personality dimensions, here we present a case study in how they can be used to
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A Psychometric Network Perspective on the Validity and Validation of Personality Trait Questionnaires European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-05-18 Alexander P. Christensen, Hudson Golino, Paul J. Silvia
This article reviews the causal implications of latent variable and psychometric network models for the validation of personality trait questionnaires. These models imply different data generating mechanisms that have important consequences for the validity and validation of questionnaires. From this review, we formalize a framework for assessing the evidence for the validity of questionnaires from
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Personality Development from Age 12 to 25 and its Links with Life Transitions European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-05-13 Marloes P.A. Van Dijk, William W. Hale, Skyler T. Hawk, Wim Meeus, Susan Branje
During adolescence and young adulthood, individuals show personality changes and experience various life transitions. Whereas personality might affect the timing of life transitions, life transitions might also induce personality maturation. We examined Big Five personality maturation from age 12 to 25 using a 9‐year longitudinal study of Dutch youths from two cohorts (n1 = 683, MageT1 = 12.70; n2 = 268
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Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-05-11 Kai T. Horstmann, Matthias Ziegler
Repeated assessments of personality states in daily diary or experience sampling studies have become a more and more common tool in the psychologist's toolbox. However, and contrary to the widely available literature on personality traits, no best practices for the development of personality state measures exist, and personality state measures have been developed in many different ways. To address
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Moments That Matter? On the Complexity of Using Triggers Based on Skin Conductance to Sample Arousing Events Within an Experience Sampling Framework European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-05-11 Sjoerd van Halem, Eeske van Roekel, Lara Kroencke, Niclas Kuper, Jaap Denissen
To sample situations that are psychologically arousing in daily life, we implemented an experience sampling strategy in which 82 Dutch young adults (Mage = 20.73) were triggered based on random time intervals and based on physiological skin conductance scores across a period of 5 days. When triggered, participants had to fill in short surveys on affect, situational characteristics and event characteristics
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Becoming More Conscientious or More Open to Experience? Effects of a Two‐Week Smartphone‐Based Intervention for Personality Change European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Mirjam Stieger, Sandro Wepfer, Dominik Rüegger, Tobias Kowatsch, Brent W. Roberts, Mathias Allemand
Research indicates that it might be possible to change personality traits through intervention, but this clinical research has primarily focused on changing neuroticism. To date, there are no established, proven techniques for changing other domains of personality, such as conscientiousness and openness. This research examined the effects of a two‐week smartphone‐based intervention to either change
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Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Eileen K. Graham, Sara J. Weston, Denis Gerstorf, Tomiko B. Yoneda, Tom Booth, Christopher R. Beam, Andrew J. Petkus, Johanna Drewelies, Andrew N. Hall, Emily D. Bastarache, Ryne Estabrook, Mindy J. Katz, Nicholas A. Turiano, Ulman Lindenberger, Jacqui Smith, Gert G. Wagner, Nancy L. Pedersen, Mathias Allemand, Avron Spiro, Dorly J.H. Deeg, Boo Johansson, Andrea M. Piccinin, Richard B. Lipton, K. Warner
This study assessed change in self‐reported Big Five personality traits. We conducted a coordinated integrative data analysis using data from 16 longitudinal samples, comprising a total sample of over 60 000 participants. We coordinated models across multiple datasets and fit identical multi‐level growth models to assess and compare the extent of trait change over time. Quadratic change was assessed
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Personality, Resilience, and Psychopathology: A Model for the Interaction between Slow and Fast Network Processes in the Context of Mental Health European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Gabriela Lunansky, Claudia van Borkulo, Denny Borsboom
Network theories have been put forward for psychopathology (in which mental disorders originate from causal relations between symptoms) and for personality (in which personality factors originate from coupled equilibria of cognitions, affect states, behaviours, and environments). Here, we connect these theoretical strands in an overarching personality–resilience–psychopathology model. In this model
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Compiling Measurement Invariant Short Scales in Cross‐Cultural Personality Assessment Using Ant Colony Optimization European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-04-26 Kristin Jankowsky, Gabriel Olaru, Ulrich Schroeders
Examining the influence of culture on personality and its unbiased assessment is the main subject of cross‐cultural personality research. Recent large‐scale studies exploring personality differences across cultures share substantial methodological and psychometric shortcomings that render it difficult to differentiate between method and trait variance. One prominent example is the implicit assumption
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When Good Feelings Turn Mixed: Affective Dynamics and Big Five Trait Predictors of Mixed Emotions in Daily Life European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-04-23 Kate A. Barford, Peter Koval, Peter Kuppens, Luke D. Smillie
In this study, we examine how daily life fluctuations in positive affect (PA) and negative afect (NA) relate to mixed emotions—that is, simultaneous positive and negative feelings. We utilised three experience sampling studies (total N = 275), in which participants reported their affect 10 times each day for up to 14 days. Because people generally experience fairly stable moderate levels of PA in daily
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Targeting Item‐level Nuances Leads to Small but Robust Improvements in Personality Prediction from Digital Footprints European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-04-15 Andrew N. Hall, Sandra C. Matz
In the past decade, researchers have demonstrated that personality can be accurately predicted from digital footprint data, including Facebook likes, tweets, blog posts, pictures, and transaction records. Such computer‐based predictions from digital footprints can complement—and in some circumstances even replace—traditional self‐report measures, which suffer from well‐known response biases and are
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Moral Foundations Theory and the Psychology of Charitable Giving European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-04-14 Artur Nilsson, Arvid Erlandsson, Daniel Västfjäll
Moral foundations theory proposes that intuitions about what is morally right or wrong rest upon a set of universal foundations. Although this theory has generated a recent surge of research, few studies have investigated the real‐world moral consequences of the postulated moral intuitions. We show that they are predictably associated with an important type of moral behaviour. Stronger individualizing
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Daily Responsiveness, Expectations, and Self‐disclosure: How the Average Levels and Within‐person Variability of Three Relationship Components Mediate Personality–Relationship Transactions in Romantic Couples European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-04-13 Janina Larissa Bühler, Rebekka Weidmann, Jenna Wünsche, Robert Philip Burriss, Alexander Grob
The associations between couple members' personality and their relationship satisfaction can be conceptualized as reciprocal transactions. To better understand these transactions, we focused on both partners' interpersonal vulnerabilities (i.e. neuroticism, low self‐esteem, and insecure attachment); daily emotional, cognitive, and behavioural relationship components (i.e. perceived responsiveness,
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The Personality Panorama: Conceptualizing Personality Through Big Behavioural Data European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-04-13 Ryan L. Boyd, Paola Pasca, Kevin Lanning
Personality psychology has long been grounded in data typologies, particularly in the delineation of behavioural, life outcome, informant‐report, and self‐report sources of data from one another. Such data typologies are becoming obsolete in the face of new methods, technologies, and data philosophies. In this article, we discuss personality psychology's historical thinking about data, modern data
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Issue Information European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-04-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Inhibition Tasks Are Not Associated with a Variety of Behaviours in College Students European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Curtis D. Von Gunten, Bruce D. Bartholow, Jorge S. Martins
Executive functions are (EF) top‐down control processes involved in regulating thoughts, ignoring distractions, and inhibiting impulses. It is widely believed that these processes are critical to self‐control and, therefore, that performance on behavioural task measures of EF should be associated with individual differences in everyday life outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to test this
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Beyond ‘Liberals’ and ‘Conservatives’: Complexity in Ideology, Moral Intuitions, and Worldview Among Swedish Voters European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-03-26 Artur Nilsson, Henry Montgomery, Girts Dimdins, Maria Sandgren, Arvid Erlandsson, Adrian Taleny
This research investigated the congruence between the ideologies of political parties and the ideological preferences (N = 1515), moral intuitions (N = 1048), and political values and worldviews (N = 1345) of diverse samples of Swedish adults who voted or intended to vote for the parties. Logistic regression analyses yielded support for a series of hypotheses about variations in ideology beyond the
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Traits and Adaptations: A Theoretical Examination and New Empirical Evidence European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-03-23 Samuel Henry, René Mõttus
We investigated the distinction between traits (also labelled basic tendencies or dispositions) and (characteristic) adaptations, two related features of the personality system postulated to influence how personality manifests throughout the lifespan. Traits are alleged to be universal, causal, and enduring entities that exist across cultures and through evolutionary time, whereas learned adaptations
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The Network Constellation of Personality and Substance Use: Evolution from Early to Late Adolescence European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Mohammad H. Afzali, Sherry Heather Stewart, Jean R. Séguin, Patricia Conrod
There is a well‐established link between substance use and four personality traits of anxiety–sensitivity, hopelessness, impulsivity, and sensation‐seeking. However, construct‐level models of personality may conceal indicator‐level personality–outcome associations. The current study aims to investigate evolution of the network constellation of personality and cannabis/alcohol use from early to late
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Longitudinal Experience‐Wide Association Studies—A Framework for Studying Personality Change European Journal of Personality (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2020-03-15 Wiebke Bleidorn, Christopher J. Hopwood, Mitja D. Back, Jaap J.A. Denissen, Marie Hennecke, Markus Jokela, Christian Kandler, Richard E. Lucas, Maike Luhmann, Ulrich Orth, Brent W. Roberts, Jenny Wagner, Cornelia Wrzus, Johannes Zimmermann
The importance of personality for predicting life outcomes in the domains of love, work, and health is well established, as is evidence that personality traits, while relatively stable, can change. However, little is known about the sources and processes that drive changes in personality traits and how such changes might impact important life outcomes. In this paper, we make the case that the research
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