D. McAdams, Kali Trzesniewski, J. Lilgendahl, V. Benet‐Martínez, R. Robins
{"title":"Self and identity in personality psychology","authors":"D. McAdams, Kali Trzesniewski, J. Lilgendahl, V. Benet‐Martínez, R. Robins","doi":"10.5964/ps.6035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.6035","url":null,"abstract":"Research on self and identity has greatly enhanced personality science by directing inquiry more deeply into the person’s conscious mind and more expansively outward into the social environments that contextualize individual differences in behavior, thought, and feeling. After delineating key concepts and offering reasons why personality psychologists should care about self and identity processes, we highlight important empirical discoveries that are of special relevance to personality science in the areas of (1) self-insight, (2) self-conscious emotions, (3) self-esteem, (4) narrative identity, and (5) the role of culture in shaping self, identity, and the integration of personality. We anticipate that future research will also move vigorously to (1) develop more comprehensive and precise accounts of how life experiences influence the development of self and identity, (2) explore more fully how the brain builds a sense of self, and (3) harness what we know about self and identity to improve people’s lives and promote personality development.","PeriodicalId":74421,"journal":{"name":"Personality science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46558017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Bleidorn, C. Hopwood, M. Back, Jaap J. A. Denissen, M. Hennecke, P. Hill, M. Jokela, C. Kandler, Richard E. Lucas, Maike Luhmann, U. Orth, B. Roberts, J. Wagner, C. Wrzus, Johannes Zimmermann
{"title":"Personality trait stability and change","authors":"W. Bleidorn, C. Hopwood, M. Back, Jaap J. A. Denissen, M. Hennecke, P. Hill, M. Jokela, C. Kandler, Richard E. Lucas, Maike Luhmann, U. Orth, B. Roberts, J. Wagner, C. Wrzus, Johannes Zimmermann","doi":"10.5964/ps.6009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.6009","url":null,"abstract":"Personality traits continue to change throughout the lifespan. However, we still know little about when, why, and how personality traits change. In this paper, we review the current state of scientific evidence regarding the nature, sources, and processes of personality trait stability and change. We revisit past disputes over the relative importance of genetic and environmental influences, discuss studies on life events and personality trait development, and summarize theory and research on personality change processes. In doing so, we derive general principles of personality trait development, highlight limitations of past research, and present the broad outlines for future research on personality trait development, with a particular emphasis on relevant methodological issues and conceptual challenges.","PeriodicalId":74421,"journal":{"name":"Personality science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45351466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tera D. Letzring, N. A. Murphy, J. Allik, A. Beer, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising
{"title":"The Judgment of Personality: An Overview of Current Empirical Research Findings","authors":"Tera D. Letzring, N. A. Murphy, J. Allik, A. Beer, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising","doi":"10.31234/osf.io/8t63v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8t63v","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents an overview of the current state of knowledge in personality judgment research. We address (1) the words and phrases that people use to describe one another and themselves, (2) research in the “variable-centered” tradition, which investigates judgments of targets by perceivers on single traits, and (3) research investigating judgments of targets by perceivers on whole profiles of traits. Our focus is on inter-rater agreement, accuracy, and bias. We also provide (4) an outlook regarding important research questions that remain to be answered in this field. Although we consider our attempt to jointly identify the most robust evidence in the field to be largely successful, we acknowledge that the process of consensus building was fairly difficult. Thus, we close with a number of concrete suggestions for making such collaborative-writing processes as constructive as possible.","PeriodicalId":74421,"journal":{"name":"Personality science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46840061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Personality sciencePub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-12-16DOI: 10.5964/ps.7275
Eleanor J Junkins, Joseph E Potter, Peter J Rentfrow, Samuel D Gosling, Jeff Potter, K Paige Harden, Elliot M Tucker-Drob, Jaime Derringer, Daniel A Briley
{"title":"Geographic Variation in Personality is Associated With Fertility Across the United States.","authors":"Eleanor J Junkins, Joseph E Potter, Peter J Rentfrow, Samuel D Gosling, Jeff Potter, K Paige Harden, Elliot M Tucker-Drob, Jaime Derringer, Daniel A Briley","doi":"10.5964/ps.7275","DOIUrl":"10.5964/ps.7275","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Levels of fertility and the shape of the age-specific fertility schedule vary substantially across U.S. regions with some states having peak fertility relatively early and others relatively late. Structural institutions or economic factors partly explain these heterogeneous patterns, but regional differences in personality might also contribute to regional differences in fertility. Here, we evaluated whether variation in extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience measured at the U.S. state-level was associated with the level, timing, and context of fertility across states above and beyond sociodemographics, voting behavior, and religiosity. Generally, states with higher levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness had more traditional fertility patterns, and states with higher levels of neuroticism and openness had more nontraditional fertility patterns, even after controlling for established correlates of fertility (r ~ |.50|). Personality is an overlooked correlate that can be leveraged to understand the existence and persistence of fertility differentials.</p>","PeriodicalId":74421,"journal":{"name":"Personality science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11364352/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45480793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olivia E Atherton, Joanne M Chung, Kelci Harris, Julia M Rohrer, David M Condon, Felix Cheung, Simine Vazire, Richard E Lucas, M Brent Donnellan, Daniel K Mroczek, Christopher J Soto, Stephen Antonoplis, Rodica Ioana Damian, David C Funder, Sanjay Srivastava, R Chris Fraley, Hayley Jach, Brent W Roberts, Luke D Smillie, Jessie Sun, Jennifer L Tackett, Sara J Weston, K Paige Harden, Katherine S Corker
{"title":"Why Has Personality Psychology Played an Outsized Role in the Credibility Revolution?","authors":"Olivia E Atherton, Joanne M Chung, Kelci Harris, Julia M Rohrer, David M Condon, Felix Cheung, Simine Vazire, Richard E Lucas, M Brent Donnellan, Daniel K Mroczek, Christopher J Soto, Stephen Antonoplis, Rodica Ioana Damian, David C Funder, Sanjay Srivastava, R Chris Fraley, Hayley Jach, Brent W Roberts, Luke D Smillie, Jessie Sun, Jennifer L Tackett, Sara J Weston, K Paige Harden, Katherine S Corker","doi":"10.5964/ps.6001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.6001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Personality is not the most popular subfield of psychology. But, in one way or another, personality psychologists have played an outsized role in the ongoing \"credibility revolution\" in psychology. Not only have individual personality psychologists taken on visible roles in the movement, but our field's practices and norms have now become models for other fields to emulate (or, for those who share Baumeister's (2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.02.003) skeptical view of the consequences of increasing rigor, a model for what to avoid). In this article we discuss some unique features of our field that may have placed us in an ideal position to be leaders in this movement. We do so from a subjective perspective, describing our impressions and opinions about possible explanations for personality psychology's disproportionate role in the credibility revolution. We also discuss some ways in which personality psychology remains less-than-optimal, and how we can address these flaws.</p>","PeriodicalId":74421,"journal":{"name":"Personality science","volume":"2 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9008744/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9644986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personality science: United in diversity. Inaugural editorial for the new journal \"Personality Science\"","authors":"J. Rauthmann","doi":"10.5964/ps.5297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.5297","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Introducing the new journal Personality Science (PS)\u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Online-only and full open-access, without author or reader fees\u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Aims to provide a top-quality and multidisciplinary outlet for personality science\u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Seeks to foster diversity and inclusion in the community of personality scientists \u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Implements rigorous guidelines to ensure transparency, openness, and reproducibility\u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Features exciting paper formats\u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Journal website: ps.psychopen.eu\u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":74421,"journal":{"name":"Personality science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46625258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Leising, Isabel Thielmann, A. Glöckner, Anne Gärtner, Felix D. Schönbrodt
{"title":"Ten steps toward a better personality science - how quality may be rewarded more in research evaluation","authors":"D. Leising, Isabel Thielmann, A. Glöckner, Anne Gärtner, Felix D. Schönbrodt","doi":"10.31234/osf.io/5zvmh","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5zvmh","url":null,"abstract":"In February 2020, the Personality and Diagnostics Chapter (DPPD) of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) tasked this group of authors with outlining what should be considered “good personality science”, as a positive vision of how to improve the credibility of research in the field. We argue in favor of working toward greater consensus about (1) shared, important research goals, (2) standardized use of terminology, (3) standardized measurement practices, (4) standardized ways of pre-processing and analyzing data, and (5) shared views of the current state of theory and knowledge. All of these should help streamline the field considerably. We also argue in favor of (6) theory formalization, (7) pre-registration requirements for any confirmatory claims, (8) valuing replication attempts more (e.g., by reserving a quota of journal space for them), (9) planning for informative (e.g., well-powered) studies, and (10) making data, code, and materials open to the public by default. The current, quantity-based incentive structures in academia clearly stand in the way of implementing many of these practices, resulting in a research literature with sometimes questionable utility and/or integrity. As a solution, we propose a quality-based reward scheme that explicitly weights published research by its good science merits. Adoption of such a reward scheme may incur a significant decline in overall publication numbers, hopefully resulting in (a) an improved signal-to-noise ratio in the literature, and (b) more efficient allocation of resources (e.g., time) by researchers, who would be enabled to read more of what is being published, and to review each other’s work more carefully. Scientists need to be increasingly rewarded for doing good work, not just lots of work.","PeriodicalId":74421,"journal":{"name":"Personality science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42005068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}