Borderline personality features moderate trajectories of health and well-being around retirement
In 590 older adults followed through retirement, people with more borderline personality features had worse health and well-being throughout, but …
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The stability of intraindividual means and standard deviations of affect
Using two experience sampling studies with a one-year gap, we asked how many observations per person it takes for average emotion and emotional …
Associations for sense of purpose with smoking and health outcomes among adults with diabetes
Across 12 datasets of adults with diabetes, people with a stronger sense of purpose reported better health, were less likely to smoke, and were less …
Longitudinal associations among the Big Five personality traits and healthcare utilization in the US
We followed about 7,000 U.S. adults over two decades to see how Big Five personality traits were associated with routine, scheduled, and urgent …
On person-community fit: Trait-, person-, and type-based approaches to measurement
We compared three ways of measuring how well a person’s personality fits their community, using data from 75,705 people across the US. Fit was …
On the Trait Like Nature of Emotion Regulation Dynamics: Limited Evidence
In an experience sampling study repeated one year later, average emotion regulation strategy use was fairly consistent over time, but measures of how …
Person-environment fit among U.S. immigrants: Associations with well-being and health
This study examined how well U.S. immigrants’ personal characteristics matched those of their local communities.
Scaling a common assessment of associative ability: Development and validation of a multiple-choice compound remote associates task
We built a multiple-choice version of the compound remote associates task, a common measure of associative ability, and tested its reliability and …
The role of personality traits in health care utilization
We asked whether Big Five personality traits are associated with using health care over two decades among older U.S. adults, once chronic conditions …
Using structural topic modeling to understand ethnicity-related narratives
We applied structural topic modeling to ethnicity narratives from 1,149 young adults, identified 14 topics, and linked the topics to participant …
Selecting the Number and Labels of Topics in Topic Modeling: A Tutorial
This tutorial provides practical guidance for selecting the number of topics and labeling them in topic modeling analyses. Using structural topic …
BrainAGE as a measure of maturation during early adolescence
We tested whether BrainAGE, an MRI-based estimate of how mature a brain looks, tracks puberty and cognition in about 11,000 children aged 9 to 13. It …
Measurement invariance of the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale
We tested whether a widely used risk-taking questionnaire works the same way across demographic groups. It did not: none of the models met the usual …
Personality trait predictors of healthcare use: A coordinated analysis of 15 samples
Across 15 samples and nearly 359,000 people, we found small but consistent associations between Big Five traits and visiting the dentist, seeing a …
Body mass in US adolescents: Stronger ties to socioeconomic status than personality
In about 9,500 US adolescents, parental socioeconomic status was more strongly associated with body mass percentile than any personality trait or …
Coordinated data analysis: Knowledge accumulation in lifespan developmental psychology
A guide to coordinated data analysis, in which the same preregistered models are run in many separate datasets and then summarized, written for …
Data overuse in aging research: Emerging issues and potential solutions
Public longitudinal datasets are a gift to aging research, but heavy reuse of a few of them can make the literature look more independent and more …
Personality Trait Descriptors: 2,818 Trait Descriptive Adjectives characterized by familiarity, frequency of use, and prior use in psycholexical research
A dataset of 2,818 English personality-descriptive adjectives, with information on how well a sample of U.S. adults knew each word, plus a searchable …
Personality traits and mental health care utilization: Longitudinal findings from the MIDUS
Using three waves of MIDUS data spanning about 20 years, we examined how mental health care use and Big Five personality traits changed together over …
Prospective self- and informant-personality associations with inflammation, health behaviors, and health indicators
In older adults from St. Louis, personality reported by the participant and by someone who knows them well were each associated with later …
A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations
A practical guide, drawn from our own experience, for lead authors who have to turn the work of tens or hundreds of collaborators into one coherent …
Building sense of purpose in older adulthood: Examining the role of supportive relationships
In older adults from the Health and Retirement Study, sense of purpose rose and fell together with perceived support and strain from spouses, …
Mapping individual differences on the internet: Case study of the type 1 diabetes community
We used natural language processing on nearly 700,000 tweets from the type 1 diabetes community to find its main topics, and network analysis to see …
Personality States of the Union
We tracked the daily average personality of U.S. adults through 2020 and asked whether it shifted after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and …
Preregistration of secondary data analysis: A template and tutorial
A 25-question preregistration template written for analyses of existing data, with guidance on each question and a worked example. It asks researchers …
Psychosocial factors associated with preventive pediatric care during the COVID-19 pandemic
In a survey of 1,875 parents of young children in fall 2020, structural factors such as insurance and household size, and parent traits such as …
The relationship between career success and sense of purpose: Examining linkages and changes
In 307 university alumni assessed about 12 years apart, work satisfaction was associated with sense of purpose, but occupational prestige was not. …
Why has personality psychology played an outsized role in the credibility revolution?
A subjective account, written by personality psychologists, of why our small subfield played a large part in psychology’s credibility …
Working toward a purpose: Examining the cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of work characteristics on sense of purpose
Using up to three waves of the MIDUS study, we asked which features of work are associated with a sense of purpose in life. Skill variety and coworker …
Coordinated data analysis: A new method for the study of personality and health
A book chapter on coordinated analysis: running the same model in many independent datasets and combining the results. We give five recommendations …
Developmental cognitive neuroscience initiatives for advancements in methodological approaches: Registered Reports and Next-Generation Tools
An editorial introducing two new article types at Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Registered Reports and Next-Generation Tools, with attention …
Identifying causal role of COVID-19 in immunopsychiatry models
Using simulated data, we show that whether COVID-19 should be statistically controlled depends on whether it acts as a confounder or a mediator in the …
Is healthy neuroticism associated with chronic conditions? A coordinated integrative data analysis
We tested whether conscientiousness changes the link between neuroticism and hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease across 15 longitudinal studies. …
Is healthy neuroticism associated with health behaviors? A coordinated integrative data analysis
Across 15 longitudinal studies, we tested whether neuroticism combined with conscientiousness (“healthy neuroticism”) is associated with …
Is healthy neuroticism associated with longevity? A coordinated integrative data analysis
We asked whether neuroticism is only linked to earlier death when conscientiousness is low, using the same preregistered analysis in 12 longitudinal …
Personality traits predict dietary habits in middle-to-older adults
In 665 middle-aged adults from the Hawaii Personality and Health Cohort, traits such as conscientiousness and openness were associated with eating …
Trajectories of big five personality traits: A coordinated analysis of 16 longitudinal samples
We fit the same growth models to 16 longitudinal samples of mostly midlife and older adults and combined the results. Extraversion, openness, and …
Evaluating eight-year trajectories for sense of purpose in the health and retirement study
Using three waves of Health and Retirement Study data spanning eight years, we found that sense of purpose declined on average and that the purpose …
No evidence of "healthy neuroticism" in the Hawaii personality and health cohort
We searched a long-running Hawaii cohort for signs that neuroticism is healthy for some people. Across conscientiousness, socioeconomic status, …
Recommendations for Increasing the Transparency of Analysis of Preexisting Data Sets
Open-science reforms were built around newly collected data. We describe how researchers who analyze preexisting data can be transparent about what …
Health-related quality of life in patients with malignant melanoma by stage and treatment status
A short clinical report on health-related quality of life among patients with malignant melanoma, compared by disease stage and treatment status.
Meta-analytic techniques reveal that corvid causal reasoning in the Aesop's Fable paradigm is driven by trial-and-error learning
We reanalyzed data from five published Aesop’s fable studies, counting each object drop as a chance to learn. The birds learned from successful …
The co-development of perceived support and the Big Five in middle and older adulthood
Using data from more than 20,000 older adults in the Health and Retirement Study, we examined how perceived support from children, family, friends, …
The role of vigilance in the relationship between neuroticism and health: A registered report
In a preregistered online survey of 1,055 adults, neuroticism was associated with believing one is aware of bodily sensations, and that belief was …
Who Are the Scrooges? Personality Predictors of Holiday Spending
Using about 2 million bank transactions from 2,133 people, we looked at how Big Five personality traits are associated with holiday spending. …
Reconsidering what is vital about vital signs in electronic health records: Comment on Matthews et al. (2016)
A short commentary on an Institute of Medicine committee’s recommendations for which psychosocial measures belong in electronic health records. …
A Comparison of Human Narrative Coding of Redemption and Automated Linguistic Analysis for Understanding Life Stories: Redemption and Automated Linguistic Analysis
We compared human-coded redemption scores in life stories with automated word-count analysis (LIWC) in two samples. The two methods were only modestly …
How do people respond to health news? The role of personality traits
We asked adults to imagine receiving worrying health news and to say what they would do next. Both the features of the news and the person’s …
Personality Traits Predict the Onset of Disease
In about 6,900 older adults followed for four years, personality traits, most notably conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness, were associated …
Identification of the healthy neurotic: Personality traits predict smoking after disease onset
We asked whether the combination of high neuroticism and high conscientiousness is associated with less smoking after a person develops a serious …
Connecting social environment variables to the onset of major specific health outcomes
We asked whether the social environment predicts which health conditions people develop over the next four years. More positive and less negative …