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 …
The past decade has seen rapid growth in research linking stable psychological characteristics (i.e., traits) to digital records of online behavior in Online Social Networks (OSNs) like Facebook and Twitter, which has implications for basic and …
A review paper on Social Media and Well-Being
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.
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 …