New theory piece on the mechanisms of personality change, led by @wiebkeb.bsky.social! In the extended ABC consolidation model, we extend previous accounts of how change in momentary states accumulates to lead to enduring trait change. (1 / 3)
How can we systematically organize and test the strategies used to reduce neuroticism?
>> New research in Personality Science
Authors: @ajwright.bsky.social, @peterhaehner.bsky.social, @chopwood.bsky.social, and @wiebkeb.bsky.social
Read the full article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thank you so much! 🙂
I am incredibly honored and grateful to be included in this list alongside a group of such talented researchers!
Thank you to anyone & everyone that has been part of my academic journey thus far and has helped make any of this possible 🤗
thank you for the shoutout, Matt!! 🤗
Some HUGE names in this year’s Rising Stars!
@cassie-boness.bsky.social!
@schwartz-psyres.bsky.social!
@dpmoriarity.bsky.social!
@emoriebeck.bsky.social!
@ajwright.bsky.social!
Iony Ezawa!
Heather Davis!
Aaron Reuben!
Even more!
Congratulations, everyone 🤩
This is consistent with earlier psychometric work that suggests 5-7 is the best response scale options, but good to see that the finding holds up in contemporary research. Also, good to see that labeling scales whether anchored or not has little impact on findings. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...
We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014? A question that made us blog again: Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014?*
floggingpvalues.blog/2025/10/22/h...
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
New preprint!
Many claim that first sex is a huge risk for teens. We tested that claim in a large, nationally representative German sample. Core question: Do first sexual experiences harm adolescents, or do they reflect prior well-being?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!
When we measure personality multiple times in a study, does it matter if we ask people about their personality *in general* or *since the last time point*?
Turns out: yes!
We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
thank you so much for checking out our preprint! We were excited to use the data from m-Path for this one 🙂
Cool preprint from @ajwright.bsky.social et al. demonstrating that personality change occurs at different time scales!
www.researchgate.net/profile/Aman...
New paper out on personality functioning by lab members @ajwright.bsky.social and @peterhaehner.bsky.social ⬇️🤩
Thank you! The full publisher text should be available at this link 🙂 drive.google.com/file/d/1xCp5...
I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall.
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them.
Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316
We hope you enjoy reading the study as much as we enjoyed doing it 🙂
And a special thank you to my wonderful co-authors: @peterhaehner.bsky.social, @maikeluhmann.bsky.social, Sophia, and Maren!
And x2 here is the publication link: doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
Overall, our findings offer valuable insight into the conceptual (dis)similarity of personality traits & personality functioning, inform joint theoretical frameworks, and may advance treatment of personality disorders by identifying conditions in which changes may be expected or best captured
What'd we find? (continued)
3) Event perceptions & initial personality levels sometimes predicted heterogeneity in event-related changes, but mostly for mean-level effects
Initial personality functioning frequently moderated event-related changes in the Big Five, but the reverse was less common
What'd we find? (continued)
2) Life events were related to personality development, but almost exclusively for personality functioning
We believe this suggests that personality functioning is more susceptible to external influences than most Big Five traits
What'd we find?
1) Unconditional development of all constructs was generally very similar, but there were some interesting trait- & metric-specific differences
We had 3 research questions:
1) How do personality functioning and the Big Five traits unconditionally develop over one year?
2) How does their development change in response to life events?
3) Can we predict individual differences in event-related changes?
New paper out at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science!
We examined unconditional & event-related changes in pathological vs normal-range personality using 4 metrics to compare their developmental links, how these vary with life events, and whether unique effects emerge across metrics
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