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Robert R. McCrae
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 315
Citations - 97197
Robert R. McCrae is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Big Five personality traits. The author has an hindex of 132, co-authored 313 publications receiving 90960 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert R. McCrae include Boston University & University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Personality traits below facets: The consensual validity, longitudinal stability, heritability, and utility of personality nuances.
TL;DR: It is argued that these narrow personality characteristics constitute a valid level of the personality hierarchy and may be especially useful for providing a deep and contextualized description of the individual, but also for the prediction of specific outcomes.
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Personality Across the Life Span
TL;DR: It is shown that there are pervasive and unexplained inconsistencies across studies that may be due to insufficient attention to measurement error, subtle but age-sensitive differences in alternative measures of the same trait, or different perspectives reflected in self-reports and observer ratings.
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Facets of personality linked to underweight and overweight.
Antonio Terracciano,Angelina R. Sutin,Robert R. McCrae,Barbara Deiana,Luigi Ferrucci,David Schlessinger,Manuela Uda,Paul T. Costa +7 more
TL;DR: Overweight and obese individuals have difficulty resisting cravings and lack methodical and organized behaviors that might influence diet and weight control, and personality traits can improve clinical assessment, suggest points of intervention, and help tailor prevention and treatment approaches.
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Personality stability and its implications for clinical psychology
Paul T. Costa,Robert R. McCrae +1 more
TL;DR: A series of longitudinal studies have demonstrated that personality traits are stable in adulthood: there are no age-related shifts in mean levels, and individuals maintain very similar rank ordering on traits after intervals of up to 30 years.
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Traits and trait names: How well is Openness represented in natural languages?
TL;DR: The five-factor model of personality has repeatedly emerged from lexical studies of natural languages as mentioned in this paper and when adjective-based factor scales are correlated with other personality measures, the adequacy of the adequac...