Brent W. Roberts
Personality Psychologist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Author of the Pigee blog (https://t.co/X2G93lcJGz); I use twitter to curate not condone
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On ‘light-touches’ and ‘heavy-hands’: 2 strategies to tackle educational inequities
In the classroom, some inequalities cannot be simply "nudged" away.
Girls Who Grow Up Without Their Father Start Their Periods Earlier, Or Do They?
New research challenges the idea that girls who grow up in households without a father tend to start their periods earlier than girls whose fathers live with them.
Because Social Science Is a Form of Service that Improves Quality of Life for People Around the World — Why Social Science?
If you are reading these words, chances are you are a social scientist or someone who cares about social science. Either way, I am grateful to you and everyone who devotes significant parts of their lives to social science’s development and...
Research tracks narcissism from young adulthood to middle age
The belief that one is smarter, better looking, more successful and more deserving than others – a personality trait known as narcissism – tends to wane as a person matures, a new study confirms. But not for everyone, and not to the same extent.
Personality, disability‐free life years, and life expectancy: Individual‐participant meta‐analysis of 131,195 individuals from 10 cohort studies
Objective
We examined how personality traits of the Five Factor Model were related to years of healthy life years lost (mortality and disability) for individuals and the population.
Method
Partici...
Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors: Convergent, Discriminant and Predictive Validity of Self-Report and Cognitive Measures
Self-report and cognitive tasks of reward sensitivity and self-regulation have influenced several developmental models that may explain the heightened engagement in risk behaviors during adolescence....
Statistics as rhetoric in psychology
(1992). Statistics as rhetoric in psychology. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 144-149.
Deception and self-deception
Why are people so often overconfident? Schwardmann and van der Weele show that people self-deceive into higher confidence if they have the opportunity to persuade others for profit and that higher confidence aides persuasion.
Forecasting the onset and course of mental illness with Twitter data
We developed computational models to predict the emergence of depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Twitter users. Twitter data and details of depression history were collected from 204 ind
To Really 'Disrupt,' Tech Needs to Listen to Actual Researchers
Opinion: Silicon Valley culture often reveals the optimism of organized ignorance. Rather than lauding "new" experts, we need to respect, sustain, and strengthen the ones we already have.
Climbing the corporate ladder and within-person changes in narcissism: Reciprocal relationships over two decades
Prior research demonstrated that narcissism fosters the attainment of higher managerial ranks in organizations. However, it is not known whether climb…
Practical Considerations for Navigating Registered Reports
Recent open science efforts to improve rigor and reliability have sparked great enthusiasm.
Among these, the Registered Report publication format integrates best practices in
hypothesis-driven research with peer review that occurs before the...
Guest Post: The Confounding Relationship Between Smart Phones and Mental Health | Inside Higher Ed
Sarah Rose Cavanagh reminds us that when it comes to big questions, it's always complicated.
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Preserving the Reputations of Sexual Harassers
An administrator resigned amid sexual harassment accusations. Another college hired him. A professor was found to have stalked a coworker. She agreed to retire, then won a Fulbright grant. Campus leaders vow reforms, but many say it’s a long road.
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
Brent W. Roberts
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