Associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and personalitytraits have important implications for theory and application. Progress in understanding these associations depends on valid measurement, unbiased estimation, and careful assessment of …
Reputations are critical in human social life: they allow people to share and act on information about one another, even when they have never met. Reputations can be conceptualized as information about a target person that is stored in networks of …
The maturity principle and cumulative continuity principle have been fundamental in understanding adult development of personality traits. We tested new predictions derived from both principles for Honesty-Propriety, a factor from the newer Big Six …
In a large, nationally-representitive sample, we find mean-level change toward more inclusive value priorities and high rank-order stability of values over time.
Cross-cultural research on personality has often led to surprising and counter-theoretical findings, which have led to concerns over the validity of country-level estimates of personality (e.g., Heine, Buchtel, & Norenzayan, 2008). The present study …
In a large, nationally-representitive sample, we find mean-level personality change consistent with the maturity principle. We find a remarkable degree of stability, and little change in stability across the lifespan, potentially at odds with the cumulative continuity principle.
Work examining longitudinal personality change and stability in the life and time project
A project examining how mental health, personality, reputation are manifest on Twitter and recoverable from corresponding digital footprints.
A number of personality frameworks assume traits describe central tendencies of action-for instance, calling someone *assertive* indicates they have a tendency to perform *assertive* actions. But what makes it appropriate to characterize an action by …