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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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Nature over nurture: temperament, personality, and life span development.
Robert R. McCrae,Paul T. Costa,Fritz Ostendorf,Alois Angleitner,M Hrebickova,Avia,Jesús Sanz,M.L. Sánchez-Bernardos,M. E. Kusdil,Ruth Woodfield,P. R. Saunders,Peter B. Smith +11 more
TL;DR: The intrinsic maturation of personality is complemented by the culturally conditioned development of characteristic adaptations that express personality; interventions in human development are best addressed to these.
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A contemplated revision of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory
Robert R. McCrae,Paul T. Costa +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used item factor analyses and readability analyses to select new items from the remaining subset of Revised NEO Personality Inventory items, which showed modest improvements in reliability and factor structure, and equivalent validity.
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Neuroticism, somatic complaints, and disease: is the bark worse than the bite?
Paul T. Costa,Robert R. McCrae +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of mortality in the literature and in the present article show no influence of neuroticism, suggesting that symptom reporting may be biased by Neuroticism-related styles of perceiving and reporting physiological experiences.
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Universal features of personality traits from the observer's perspective: Data from 50 Cultures
TL;DR: Factor analyses within cultures showed that the normative American self-report structure was clearly replicated in most cultures and was recognizable in all, and data support the hypothesis that features of personality traits are common to all human groups.
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Social consequences of experiential openness.
TL;DR: The author reviews the effects of Openness versus Closedness in cultural innovation, political ideology, social attitudes, marital choice, and interpersonal relations.