[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 113(1) of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2017-26058-001).In the article, all citations to McCrae and Costa (2008), except for the instance in which it appears in the first paragraph of the introduction, should instead appear as McCrae and Costa (2010). The complete citation should read as follows: McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T. (2010). NEO Inventories professional manual. Lutz, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources. The attribution to the BFI-2 items that appears in the Table 6 note should read as follows: BFI-2 items adapted from "Conceptualization, Development, and Initial Validation of the Big Five Inventory-2," by C. J. Soto and O. P. John, 2015, Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Association for Research in Personality. Copyright 2015 by Oliver P. John and Christopher J. Soto. The complete citation in the References list should appear as follows: Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2015, June). Conceptualization, development, and initial validation of the Big Five Inventory-2. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, St. Louis, MO. Available from http://www.colby.edu/psych/personality-lab/ All versions of this article have been corrected. All versions of this article have been corrected.] Three studies were conducted to develop and validate the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2), a major revision of the Big Five Inventory (BFI). Study 1 specified a hierarchical model of personality structure with 15 facet traits nested within the Big Five domains, and developed a preliminary item pool to measure this structure. Study 2 used conceptual and empirical criteria to construct the BFI-2 domain and facet scales from the preliminary item pool. Study 3 used data from 2 validation samples to evaluate the BFI-2's measurement properties and substantive relations with self-reported and peer-reported criteria. The results of these studies indicate that the BFI-2 is a reliable and valid personality measure, and an important advance over the original BFI. Specifically, the BFI-2 introduces a robust hierarchical structure, controls for individual differences in acquiescent responding, and provides greater bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power than the original BFI, while still retaining the original measure's conceptual focus, brevity, and ease of understanding. The BFI-2 therefore offers valuable new opportunities for research examining the structure, assessment, development, and life outcomes of personality traits. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).

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The next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power.

The dynamics by which norms emerge and spread in international society have been the subject of strikingly little study. This article focuses on norms that prohibit, both in international law and in the domestic criminal laws of states, the involvement of state and nonstate actors in activities such as piracy, slavery, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, the hijacking of aircraft, and the killing of endangered animal species. It analyzes the manner in which these norms have evolved into and been institutionalized by global prohibition regimes and argues that there are two principal inducements to the formation and promotion of such regimes. The first is the inadequacy of unilateral and bilateral law enforcement measures in the face of criminal activities that transcend national borders. The second is the role of moral and emotional factors related to neither political nor economic advantage but instead involving religious beliefs, humanitarian sentiments, fears, prejudices, paternalism, faith in universalism, the individual conscience, and the compulsion to proselytize. The ultimate success or failure of an international regime in effectively suppressing a particular activity depends, however, not only on the degree of commitment to its norms or the extent of resources devoted to carrying out its goals but also on the vulnerability of the activity to its enforcement measures.

Global prohibition regimes: the evolution of norms in international society

Language use is a psychologically rich, stable individual difference with well-established correlations to personality. We describe a method for assessing personality using an open-vocabulary analysis of language from social media. We compiled the written language from 66,732 Facebook users and their questionnaire-based self-reported Big Five personality traits, and then we built a predictive model of personality based on their language. We used this model to predict the 5 personality factors in a separate sample of 4,824 Facebook users, examining (a) convergence with self-reports of personality at the domain- and facet-level; (b) discriminant validity between predictions of distinct traits; (c) agreement with informant reports of personality; (d) patterns of correlations with external criteria (e.g., number of friends, political attitudes, impulsiveness); and (e) test-retest reliability over 6-month intervals. Results indicated that language-based assessments can constitute valid personality measures: they agreed with self-reports and informant reports of personality, added incremental validity over informant reports, adequately discriminated between traits, exhibited patterns of correlations with external criteria similar to those found with self-reported personality, and were stable over 6-month intervals. Analysis of predictive language can provide rich portraits of the mental life associated with traits. This approach can complement and extend traditional methods, providing researchers with an additional measure that can quickly and cheaply assess large groups of participants with minimal burden.

Automatic personality assessment through social media language.

This research paper was reviewed using a double blind peer review process that meets DEEWR requirements. Two reviewers were appointed on the basis of their independence, expertise and experience and received the full paper devoid of the authors’ names and institutions in order to ensure objectivity and anonymity. Where substantial differences existed between the two reviewers, a third reviewer was appointed. Papers were evaluated on the basis of originality, quality of academic merit, relevance to the conference theme and the standard of writing/presentation. Following review, this full paper was presented at the international conference.

Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia

‘Area studies' use a geographical metaphor to visualise and naturalise particular social spaces as well as a particular scale of analysis. They produce specific geographies of knowing but also crea...

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Geographies of knowing, geographies of ignorance: jumping scale in Southeast Asia

Volume 1: 1. The writing of Southeast Asian history J. D. Legge 2. Southeast Asia before history Peter Bellwood 3. The early kingdoms Keith W. Taylor 4. Economic history of Southeast Asia Kenneth R. Hall 5. Religion and popular beliefs of Southeast Asia before c.1500 J. G. De Casparis and I. W. Mabbett. Volume II: 6. Interactions with the outside world and adaptation in Southeast Asian society, 1500-1800 Leonard Y. Andaya 7 Political development between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries Barbara Watson Andaya 8 Economic and social change, c. 1400-1800 Anthony Reid 9 Religious developments in Southeast Asia, c. 1500-1800 Barbara Watson Andaya and Yoneo Ishii 10 The age of transition: the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries J. Kathirithamby-Wells. Volume III: 1 The establishment of the colonial regimes Nicholas Tarling 2 Political structures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Carl A. Trocki 3 International commerce, the state and society: economic and social change Robert E. Elson 4 Religion and anti-colonial movements Reynaldo Ileto 5 Nationalism and modernist reform Paul Kratoska and Ben Batson. Volume IV: 6 Southeast Asia in war and peace: the end of European colonial empires A. J. Stockwell 7 The political structures of the independent states Yong Mun Cheong 8 Economic and social change Norman G. Owen 9 Religious change in contemporary Southeast Asia Paul Stange 10 Regionalism and nationalism C. M. Turnbull.

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia

Preface Part I. Present and Past: 1. Indonesia 2. Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei 3. The Philippines 4. Burma/Myanmar 5. Vietnam 6. Siam/Thailand Part II. Problems and Policies: 7. Colonial and national frontiers 8. Colonial authority 9. The industrial revolution 10. Parliamentary government and Southeast Asia 11. Nationalism 12. The Japanese 13. Gaining independence 14. Democratic institutions 15. International factors in the winning of independence 16. Armies 17. Millenarianism 18. Foreign policy Part III. Period and Perspectives: 19. Time and place 20. Septentrionalism.

Nations and states in Southeast Asia

Mission to the east coast of Sumatra in 1823.

Adopts a narrative and a comparative approach to the modern history of Southeast Asia The author views this region as unique, but also as part of wider human experiences He compares the experiences of Southeast Asian states, peoples and regimes, linking experiences with those of other world regions Author from Uni of Auckland

Nicholas Tarling

Papers

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia

Nations and states in Southeast Asia

Mission to the east coast of Sumatra in 1823.

Southeast Asia: A Modern History

Anglo-Dutch rivalry in the Malay World, 1780-1824