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Brent W. Roberts
Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Publications - 243
Citations - 40852
Brent W. Roberts is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Big Five personality traits. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 229 publications receiving 36195 citations. Previous affiliations of Brent W. Roberts include University of Tübingen & University of California, Berkeley.
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Capturing abnormal personality with normal personality inventories: An item response theory approach.
TL;DR: This study uses Item Response Theory (IRT) methods to evaluate the range of the latent trait assessed with a normal personality measure and a measure of psychopathy as one example of an abnormal personality construct, and finds that the measures overlapped substantially in terms of the regions ofThe latent trait for which they provide information.
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Personality and the Reproduction of Social Class
TL;DR: This paper found that personality characteristics have notable associations with educational attainment, hourly wages, and self-direction at work; personality often has stronger associations with status attainments at lower levels of parent education; and personality is a weak mediator of associations between parent education and attained status.
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Conscientiousness and externalizing psychopathology: Overlap, developmental patterns, and etiology of two related constructs
TL;DR: An overview of the known developmental changes in conscientiousness across the life course is provided, as well as the potential shared developmental etiology of conscientiousness and externalizing psychopathology.
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Personality Development and the Person-Situation Debate: It's Deja Vu All Over Again
Brent W. Roberts,Avshalom Caspi +1 more
TL;DR: The person-situation debate was settled (Kenrick & Funder, 1988) but it appears to have been lying dormant as mentioned in this paper, and it appears we have stumbled upon the person situation debate once again, this time in the context of personality development.