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Should we trust web-based studies? A comparative analysis of six preconceptions about internet questionnairesSamuel D Gosling
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Am Psychol 59:93-104. 2004..It is concluded that Internet methods can contribute to many areas of psychology...- From mice to men: what can we learn about personality from animal research?S D Gosling
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
Psychol Bull 127:45-86. 2001..It is concluded that animal studies provide unique opportunities to examine biological, genetic, and environmental bases of personality and to study personality change, personality-health links, and personality perception... - A room with a cue: personality judgments based on offices and bedroomsSamuel D Gosling
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 82:379-98. 2002..Consensus and accuracy correlations were generally stronger than those found in zero-acquaintance research... - A dog's got personality: a cross-species comparative approach to personality judgments in dogs and humansSamuel D Gosling
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 0187, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:1161-9. 2003.... - e-Perceptions: personality impressions based on personal websitesSimine Vazire
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:123-32. 2004..These findings suggest that identity claims are used to convey valid information about personality... - The precarious couple effect: verbally inhibited men + critical, disinhibited women = bad chemistryWilliam B Swann
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:1095-106. 2003..Implications for understanding the impact of gender expectations on relationships and for integrating behavioral and personological approaches to close relationships are discussed... - Bridging psychology and biology with animal researchSimine Vazire
Department of Psychology, 108 E. Dean Keaton Street, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Am Psychol 58:407-8. 2003 - The do re mi's of everyday life: the structure and personality correlates of music preferencesPeter J Rentfrow
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:1236-56. 2003..Preferences for these music dimensions were related to a wide array of personality dimensions (e.g., Openness), self-views (e.g., political orientation), and cognitive abilities (e.g., verbal IQ)... 
Bridging human and animal research: a comparative approach to studies of personality and healthPranjal H Mehta
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A8000, Austin, TX 78712 0187, USA
Brain Behav Immun 22:651-61. 2008..We conclude that a comparative approach can provide unique insights into personality psychology, especially into research on personality, immunity, and health...- The developmental psychometrics of big five self-reports: acquiescence, factor structure, coherence, and differentiation from ages 10 to 20Christopher J Soto
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 5050, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 94:718-37. 2008..These findings have important implications for the study of personality characteristics and other psychological attributes in childhood and adolescence... - Wired but not WEIRD: the promise of the Internet in reaching more diverse samplesSamuel D Gosling
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Behav Brain Sci 33:94-5. 2010..We found that 19% were not from advanced economies; 20% were from non-Western societies; 35% of the Western-society sample were not from the United States; and 66% of the U. S. sample were not in the 18-22 (college) age group... - Tree thinking: a new paradigm for integrating comparative data in psychologySamuel D Gosling
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin 78701, USA
J Gen Psychol 134:259-77. 2007..This tenet of tree thinking requires researchers to consider hitherto neglected patterns of data. The authors present the ideas and methods behind tree thinking, examining their implications for psychology... - Do people know how they behave? Self-reported act frequencies compared with on-line codings by observersS D Gosling
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 74:1337-49. 1998..Discussion focuses on implications for research on acts, traits, social perception, and the act frequency approach... - Personality dimensions in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta)S D Gosling
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720 1650, USA
J Comp Psychol 112:107-18. 1998..Discussion focuses on methodological issues in research on animal personality and on the potential contributions this research can make for understanding the biological and environmental bases of personality... - Personality in its natural habitat: manifestations and implicit folk theories of personality in daily lifeMatthias R Mehl
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 90:862-77. 2006..The findings point to the importance of naturalistic observation studies on how personality is expressed and perceived in the natural stream of everyday behavior... - Normality evaluations and their relation to personality traits and well-beingDustin Wood
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:861-79. 2007..Finally, the personality correlates of normality evaluations were found to change over the lifespan, largely in parallel with the actual mean-level development of personality traits with age... - Personality in nonhuman primates: a review and evaluation of past researchHani D Freeman
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
Am J Primatol 72:653-71. 2010..Discussion focuses on delineating major theoretical and empirical questions facing research and practice in primate personality... - Are needs to manage uncertainty and threat associated with political conservatism or ideological extremity?John T Jost
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003 6634, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:989-1007. 2007..Implications for understanding the epistemic and existential bases of political orientation are discussed... - Global self-esteem across the life spanRichard W Robins
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616 8686, USA
Psychol Aging 17:423-34. 2002..S. citizens vs. non-U.S. citizens). Overall, these findings support previous research, help clarify inconsistencies in the literature, and document new trends that require further investigation... - Development and validation of a Dutch translation of the Big Five Inventory (BFI)Jaap J A Denissen
Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
J Pers Assess 90:152-7. 2008..The brevity of the instrument will be appealing to researchers who are concerned about taxing the time and motivation of their participants... - Punishing hubris: the perils of overestimating one's status in a groupCameron Anderson
University of California, Walter A Hass School of Business, Berkeley, CA 94720 1900, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:90-101. 2008..Moreover, individuals tended to perceive their status highly accurately. Mediation analyses showed that status self-enhancers were socially punished because they were seen as disruptive to group processes... - Message in a ballad: the role of music preferences in interpersonal perceptionPeter J Rentfrow
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 17:236-42. 2006..Discussion focuses on the mechanisms that may underlie the links between personality and music preferences... - Development of personality in early and middle adulthood: set like plaster or persistent change?Sanjay Srivastava
Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:1041-53. 2003..The variety in patterns of change suggests that the Big Five traits are complex phenomena subject to a variety of developmental influences...
Research Grants
- Expressions of Identity in Virtual and Physical SpacesSAMUEL GOSLING; Fiscal Year: 2002..The two pilot studies proposed here will provide the foundation for a subsequent grant application designed to test the specific processes proposed in our model of occupant-environmental links. ..