Personality Psychology in the First Decade of the New Millennium: A Bibliometric Portrait

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jüri Allik
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Social Psychology Bulletin ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
The Us ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
Citation Bias ◽  
Principal Personality ◽  
New Millennium

Nine principal personality psychology journals— Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP), Journal of Personality (JP), Journal of Research in Personality (JRP), European Journal of Personality (EJP), Personality and Individual Differences (PAID), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB), Personality and Social Psychology Review (PSPR), Journal of Personality Assessment (JPA), and Journal of Personality Disorders (JPD)—have published 8510 research papers from 2001 to 2010. These papers have been cited 149 108 times (September 2011) by papers published in journals indexed in the Web of Science. Although personality psychologists from the US published the largest number of papers (4924, 57.9%) and had the largest number of citations (101 875, 68.3%), their relative contribution to personality literature has slightly diminished during the first decade of the new millennium. Unlike other countries, personality psychologists residing in the US demonstrated a strong country self–citation bias: They were about 14% more likely to cite papers which were written by their compatriots rather than non–US authors in three leading journals JPSP, PSPB, and PSPR. The intensity and pattern of citations indicate that personality psychology indeed occupies one of the core positions at the heart of psychological knowledge. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The MTurkification of Social and Personality Psychology

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 842-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Anderson ◽  
Johnie J. Allen ◽  
Courtney Plante ◽  
Adele Quigley-McBride ◽  
Alison Lovett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Social Psychology Bulletin ◽  
Job Tenure ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Survival And Reproduction ◽  
Research Domains

The potential role of brief online studies in changing the types of research and theories likely to evolve is examined in the context of earlier changes in theory and methods in social and personality psychology, changes that favored low-difficulty, high-volume studies. An evolutionary metaphor suggests that the current publication environment of social and personality psychology is a highly competitive one, and that academic survival and reproduction processes (getting a job, tenure/promotion, grants, awards, good graduate students) can result in the extinction of important research domains. Tracking the prevalence of brief online studies, exemplified by studies using Amazon Mechanical Turk, in three top journals ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology) reveals a dramatic increase in their frequency and proportion. Implications, suggestions, and questions concerning this trend for the field and questions for its practitioners are discussed.

Comparing predictive validity in a community sample: High–dimensionality and traditional domain–and–facet structures of personality variation

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1120-1137
Author(s):  
Gerard Saucier ◽  
Kathryn Iurino ◽  
Amber Gayle Thalmayer
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
High Dimensionality ◽  
Structure Model ◽  
Predictive Capacity ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
Efficient Route ◽  
Personality Models ◽  
Criterion Variables

Prediction of outcomes is an important way of distinguishing, among personality models, the best from the rest. Prominent previous models have tended to emphasize multiple internally consistent “facet” scales subordinate to a few broad domains. But such an organization of measurement may not be optimal for prediction. Here, we compare the predictive capacity and efficiency of assessments across two types of personality–structure model: conventional structures of facets as found in multiple platforms, and new high–dimensionality structures emphasizing those based on natural–language adjectives, in particular lexicon–based structures of 20, 23, and 28 dimensions. Predictions targeted 12 criterion variables related to health and psychopathology, in a sizeable American community sample. Results tended to favor personality–assessment platforms with (at least) a dozen or two well–selected variables having minimal intercorrelations, without sculpting of these to make them function as indicators of a few broad domains. Unsurprisingly, shorter scales, especially when derived from factor analyses of the personality lexicon, were shown to take a more efficient route to given levels of predictive capacity. Popular 20th–century personality–assessment models set out influential but suboptimal templates, including one that first identifies domains and then facets, which compromise the efficiency of measurement models, at least from a comparative–prediction standpoint. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology

Psychology of the Scientist: XLX. Frequently Cited Research on Human Aggression

1985 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Bushman ◽  
H. S. Bertilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Experimental Social Psychology ◽  
Social Psychology Bulletin ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Human Aggression ◽  
Learning Analysis

This article reports a citation analysis of research on human aggression. Citations from articles on aggression were culled from Aggressive Behavior, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin for the 3-yr. period 1980–1982. Out of 1194 books and journal articles, 35 were cited three or more times and were included in this list of influential publications. The three most often cited publications were Baron's Human aggression, Bandura's Aggression: a social learning analysis, and Buss' The psychology of aggression. The frequency of citation by author was also analyzed and reported.

scholarly journals Personality Psychology

Psychology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Latzman ◽  
Yuri Shishido
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Broad Field ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Dynamic Organization

The title of “Godfather of Personality” may well be ascribed to Gordon Allport, who was the first to make public efforts to promote the “field of personality” in the 1930s (see Allport and Vernon 1930, cited under Gordon Allport). Personality psychology—located within what many argue is the broadest, most encompassing branch of psychological science—can be defined as the study of the dynamic organization, within the individual, of psychological systems that create the person’s characteristic patterns of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings (see Allport 1961, also cited under Gordon Allport). The field of personality psychology is concerned with both individual differences—that is, the way in which people differ from one another—and intrapersonal functioning, the set of processes taking place within any individual person. The area of personality psychology is often grouped with social psychology in research programs at universities; however, these are quite different approaches to understanding individuals. While social psychology attempts to understand the individual in interpersonal or group contexts (i.e., “when placed in Situation A, how do people, in general, respond?”), personality psychology investigates individual differences (i.e., “how are people similar and different in how they respond to the same situation?”). Personality psychology has a long history and, as such, is an extremely large and broad field that includes a large number of approaches. Discerning readers will quickly note that the current chapter is largely focused on what has come to be the most commonly studied perspective, the trait approach. Those readers interested in other approaches are referred to a number of resources focusing on Other Approaches within the diverse field.

Cultural spaces of popularized psychological knowledge: Attachment parenting in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-357
Author(s):  
Anna Sieben ◽  
Ayşe Yıldırır
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Attachment Parenting ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Psychological Knowledge

The psychological concept of attachment is constantly evolving. Approximately 70 years after attachment theory was first introduced by John Bowlby in the late 1940s, the notion of attachment is still in flux with continually changing ideas of what it means to be a good parent. One path along which attachment as a concept is moving from academia to everyday life is the philosophy of attachment parenting which was first established in the US by William and Martha Sears. Ideas about attachment theory and attachment parenting are frequently accompanied by critical comments on “Western” cultures. This critical perspective on modernity, individualism, and autonomy is portrayed in the first part of this article. The second part traces attachment as a concept transferred to Turkey. Rather than studying academic work on attachment in Turkey, this article focuses on popularized versions of attachment theory which gain ground as part of the parenting philosophy of attachment parenting. This article analyzes parents’ blogs, websites, self-help books, fieldwork protocols, and interviews with parenting trainers and parents themselves. It focuses on how popular scientific use of attachment parenting in Turkey is accompanied by discussions of cultural identity, cultural values, and belonging. The article shows that attachment theory and parenting are used in quite diverse ways to comment on Turkish (parenting) culture, ranging from anglophile readings to more conservative appropriations of attachment theory as Anatolian education. These forms of popularizing attachment theory challenge the sociological concept of psychologization.

Research productivity in neurosurgery: trends in globalization, scientific focus, and funding

2011 ◽  
Vol 115 (6) ◽  
pp. 1262-1272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason S. Hauptman ◽  
Daniel S. Chow ◽  
Neil A. Martin ◽  
Michael W. Itagaki
Keyword(s):  
Case Reports ◽  
Bibliometric Study ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Status ◽  
Relative Decline ◽  
Nih Funding

Object While research is important for the survival, growth, and expansion of neurosurgery, little work has been done to quantify the status and trends of neurosurgical publications. The purpose of this bibliometric study was to quantitatively analyze trends in neurosurgical publications, including changes in worldwide productivity, study methodology, subspecialty topic, and funding. Methods This was a retrospective bibliometric study using MEDLINE to record all publications between 1996 and 2009 by first authors affiliated with neurosurgical departments. Country of origin, MEDLINE-defined methodology, study topic, and funding sources (for US articles) were recorded. Linear regression was used to derive growth rates. Results Total articles numbered 53,425 during the study period, with leading global contributors including the US with 16,943 articles (31.7%) and Japan with 10,802 articles (20.2%). Countries demonstrating rapid growth in productivity included China (121.9 ± 9.98%/year, p < 0.001), South Korea (50.5 ± 4.7%/year, p < 0.001), India (19.4 ± 1.8%/year, p < 0.001), and Turkey (25.3 ± 2.8%/year, p < 0.001). While general research articles, case reports, and review articles have shown steady growth since 1996, clinical trials and randomized controlled trials have declined to 2004 levels. The greatest overall subspecialty growth was seen in spine surgery. Regarding funding, relative contribution of National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funded publications decreased from 30.2% (290 of 959) to 22.5% (356 of 1229) between 1996 and 2009. Conclusions Neurosurgical publications demonstrate continued increases in productivity as well as in global expansion, although US contributions remain dominant. Two challenges that the neurosurgical community is facing include the preponderance of case reports and review articles and the relative decline in NIH funding for US neurosurgical publications, as productivity has outpaced government financial support.

scholarly journals Jealousy as a Function of Rival Characteristics: Two Large Replication Studies and Meta-Analyses Support Gender Differences in Reactions to Rival Attractiveness But Not Dominance

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1428-1443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas V. Pollet ◽  
Tamsin K. Saxton
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Social Psychology Bulletin ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Replication Studies ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Meta Analyses

Jealousy is a key emotion studied in the context of romantic relationships. One seminal study (Dijkstra, P., & Buunk, B. (1998). Jealousy as a function of rival characteristics: An evolutionary perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24 (11), 1158–1166. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672982411003) investigated the interactions between a participant’s gender and their reactions to the attractiveness or dominance of a romantic rival. In a vignette-based study, it was found that women’s jealousy was more responsive than men’s to a rival’s attractiveness, whereas in contrast, the rival’s dominance evoked more jealousy from men than from women. Here, we attempt to replicate these interactions in two samples ( N = 339 and N = 456) and present subsequent meta-analyses (combined Ns = 5,899 and 4,038, respectively). These meta-analyses showed a small, significant effect of gender on jealousy provoked by rival attractiveness, but no such response to rival dominance. We discuss the potential reasons for these findings and future directions for research on jealousy and rival characteristics.

Tracing Personality Structure in Narratives: A Computational Bottom–Up Approach to Unpack Writers, Characters, and Personality in Historical Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 917-943
Author(s):  
Ronald Fischer ◽  
Johannes Alfons Karl ◽  
Markus Luczak–Roesch ◽  
Velichko H. Fetvadjiev ◽  
Adam Grener
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Big Five Model

We present a new method for personality assessment at a distance to uncover personality structure in historical texts. We focus on how two 19th century authors understood and described human personality; we apply a new bottom–up computational approach to extract personality dimensions used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to describe fictional characters in 21 novels. We matched personality descriptions using three person–description dictionaries marker scales as reference points for interpretation. Factor structures did not show strong convergence with the contemporary Big Five model. Jane Austen described characters in terms of social and emotional richness with greater nuances but using a less extensive vocabulary. Charles Dickens, in contrast, used a rich and diverse personality vocabulary, but those descriptions centred around more restricted dimensions of power and dominance. Although we could identify conceptually similar factors across the two authors, analyses of the overlapping vocabulary between the two authors suggested only moderate convergence. We discuss the utility and potential of automated text analysis and the lexical hypothesis to (i) provide insights into implicit personality models in historical texts and (ii) bridge the divide between idiographic and nomothetic perspectives. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology

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