Spring 2005

  Psychology 567

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Psychology 567: Personality Assessment, Spring 2005

Location:          Psych 207

Time:                Thursdays 2:00 – 3:50

Instructor:         Brent W. Roberts

Office:              411

Office hours      Wednesday 2-3 or by appointment

Phone #:           3-2644

E-mail              broberts@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu

January 20^th: Class cancelled due to SPSP

January 27^th: Background

Allport, G. W.  (1958).  What units shall we employ?  In G. Lindzey (Ed.), Assessment of human motives (pp. 239-260).  New York: Rinehart.

Craik, K. H.  (1986).  Personality research methods: An historical perspective.  Journal of Personality, 54, 18 – 51.

Funder, D. C.  (2000).  Personality.  Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 197-221.

Hogan, R. T. & Roberts, B. W.  (2000).  A Socioanalytic perspective on person/environment interaction.  In W. B. Walsh, K. H. Craik, & R. H. Price (Eds.), New directions in person-environment psychology.  Mahway, NJ: Earlbaum.

McAdams, D. P. (1994).  Can personality change? Levels of stability and growth in the personality across the life span.  T. F. Heatherton & J. L. Weinberger.  Can personality change? (pp. 299-313). Washington, DC, USA: American Psychological Association.

Ozer, D. J., & Reise, S. P.  (1994).  Personality Assessment.  Annual Review of Psychology, 45, 357-388.

Lubinski, D.  (2000).  Scientific and social significance of assessing individual differences:  Sinking shafts at a few critical points.  Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 405-444.

Mischel, W. (2004).  Toward an Integrative Science of the Person.  Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 1-18.

Roberts, B. W., & Pomerantz, E. M. (2004).  On traits, situations, and their integration: A developmental perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 402-416.

Tellegen, A. (1991). Personality traits: Issues of definition, evidence, and assessment. Cicchetti, D. & Grove, W. M. (Eds). Thinking clearly about psychology: Essays in honor of Paul E. Meehl, Vol. 2: Personality and psychopathology. (pp. 10-35). Minneapolis, MN, US: University of Minnesota Press.

February 3: Construct validity

Cohen, P., Cohen, J., Aiken, L. S., & West, S. G.  (1999). The problem of units and the circumstances for POMP. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 34, 315-346.

Embretson, S. E.  (1996).  The new rules of measurement.  Psychological Assessment, 8, 341-349.

Fraley, R. C., Waller, N. G., Brennan, K. A. (2000).  An item response theory analysis of self-report measures of adult attachment.  Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 78, 350-365. 

Hogan, R. & Nicholson,  R. A.  (1988).  The meaning of personality test scores.  American Psychologist, 43, 621-626.

John, O. P., & Benet-Martinez, V.  (2001).  Measurement: Reliability, Construct Validation, and Scale Construction.  In C. Judd & H. Reis (Eds.), Handbook of Methods in Social Psychology (pp 339 – 369).

Ozer, D. J.  (1989).  Construct validity in personality assessment.  In D. Buss & N. Cantor (Eds.), Personality psychology: Recent trends and emerging directions (pp. 225 – 234).  NY: Springer Verlag.

Waller, N. G., Tellegen, A., McDonald, R. P., Lykken, D. T.  (1996).  Exploring nonlinear models in personality assessment: Development and preliminary validation of a negative emotionality scale.  Journal of Personality, 64, 545-576.

Waller, N. G. (1999).  Searching for structure in the MMPI. In S. E. Embretson, S. L.  Hershberger (Eds), The new rules of measurement: What every psychologist and educator should know. (pp. 185-217). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Zickar, M. J.  (2001).  Conquering the Next Frontier:  Modeling Personality Data with Item Response Theory. In B.W. Roberts & R. Hogan (Eds.), Personality psychology in the workplace..  Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

February 10: Construct validity continued

Campbell, D. T., & Fiske, D. W.  (1959).  Convergent and discriminant validation by the multi-trait multimethod matrix.  Psychological Bulletin, 56, 81-105.

Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E.  (1955).  Construct validity in psychological tests.  Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.

Messick, S.  (1995).  Validity of psychological assessment: validation of inferences from persons’ responses and performances as scientific inquiry into score meaning.  American Psychologist, 50, 741-749.

Pulakos, E. D., Borman, W. C., Hough, L. M.  (1988).  Test validation for scientific understanding: Two demonstrations of an approach to studying predictor-criterion linkages.  Personnel Psychology, 41, 703-716.

Roberts, B. W., Harms, P.D., Smith, J., Wood, D. & Webb, M.  (in press).  Methods in personality psychology.  In Eid, M. & Diener, E.  (Eds.).  Handbook of Psychological Assessment: A Multimethod Perspective.  Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

February 17: Test construction

Meehl, P. E.  (1945).  The dynamics of “structured” personality tests.  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1, 296-303.

Saucier, G., & Goldberg, L. R.  (in press).  Assessing the Big Five: Applications of 12 psychometric criteria to the development of marker scales.  In B. De Raad & M. Perugini (Eds.),  Big Five Assessment.  Hogrefe & Huber.

Burisch, M.  (1984).  Approaches to personality inventory construction:  A comparison of merits.  American Psychologist, 39,  214-227.

Werner, P. D., & Pervin, L. A. (1986).  The content of personality inventory items. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 51, 622-628.

February 24^th: The strengths and weaknesses of self-reports

Henry, B., Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., Langley, J., & Silva, P. A.  (1994).  On the “remembrance of things past”: A longitudinal evaluation of the retrospective method.  Psychological Assessment, 6, 92-101.

Ones, D. S. , Viswesvaran, C. , & Reiss, A. D. (1996).  Role of social desirability in personality testing for personnel selection: The Red Herring. Journal of Applied Psychology, 81, 660-679.

Meyer, G. J., Finn, S. E., Eyde, L. D., Kay, G. G., Moreland, K. L., Dies, R. R., Eisman, E. J., Kubiszyn, T. W., & Reed, G. M.  (2001).  Psychological testing and psychological assessment.  American Psychologist, 56, 128-165.

Piedmont, R.L., McCrae, R. R., Riemann, R., & Angleitner A.  (2000).  On the invalidity of validity scales: Evidence from self-reports and observer ratings in volunteer samples.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 582-593.

March 3^rd: Observer techniques

Block, J.  The Q-sort method in personality assessment and psychiatric research.  Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press (pp. 3 – 46).

Block, J.  (1989). Critique of the act frequency approach to personality. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology,  56, 234-245.

Buss, D., & Craik, K. H.  (1983).  The act frequency approach to personality.  Psychological Review, 90, 105-126.

Hofstee, W. K. B.  (1994).  Who should own the definition of personality?  European Journal of Personality, 8, 149-162

March 10^th: Paradigms of assessment: Psychodynamic

                        Wiggins, J.  (2003).  Chapters 1, 7, & 8

Bornstein, R. F. (1999).  Criterion validity of objective and projective dependency tests: A meta-analytic assessment of behavioral prediction. Psychological Assessment, 11, 48-57.

Lilienfeld, S.  On the validity of the Rorschak

March 17th: Paradigms of assessment: Interpersonal

                        Wiggins, J. (2003).  Chapters 2 & 9

Hofstee, W. K. B., de Raad, B., & Goldberg, L. R.  (1992).  Integration of the big five and circumplex approaches to trait structure.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 146-163.

March 24th: Spring Break

March 31st: Paradigms of assessment: Personological

                        Wiggins, J. (2003).  Chapter 3

Runyan, W. M.  (1997).  Studying lives: Psychobiography and the conceptual structure of personality psychology. In Hogan, R., Johnson, J. A., & S. R. Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology. (pp. 41-69). San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Inc.

Stokes, G. S., Mumford, M. D., & Owens, W. A.  (1989).  Life history prototypes in the study of human individuality.  Journal of Personality, 57, 509-545.

McAdams, D. P., West, S. G. (1997).  Personality psychology and the case study. Introduction. Journal of Personality, 65, 757-783

McAdams, D. P.  (1995).  What do we know when we know a person?  Journal of Personality, 63, 365-396.

April 7th: Pardigms of personality assessment—Multivariate

                        Wiggins, J. (2003).  Chapter 4 & 10

Benet, V., Waller, N. G.  (1995). The Big Seven factor model of personality description: Evidence for its cross-cultural generality in a Spanish sample.  Journal of Personality & Social Psychology,  69, 701-718.

Johnson, J. A., & Ostendorf, F.  (1993).  Clarification of the Five-Factor model with the abridged Big Five dimensional circumplex.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 563-576.

Johnson, J. A.  (1994).  Clarification of Factor Five with the help of the AB5C model.  European Journal of Personality, 8, 311-334.

McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T., Jr.  (1997).  Personality trait structure as a human universal.  American Psychologist., 52, 509-516.

Paunonen, S. V., & Jackson, D. N.  (2000).  What is beyond the Big Five?  Plenty!  Journal of Personality, 68, 821-835.

Saucier, G.  (2003).  An alternative multi-language structure for personality attributes.  European Journal of Personality, 76, 179-205.

April 14^th: Paradigms of personality assessment—Empirical

                        Wiggins, J.  (2003).  Chapters 5 & 11

Gough, H. G.  (1965).  Conceptual analysis of psychological test scores and other diagnostic variables.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 70, 294-302.

April 21^st: The varieties of personality assessment

Cervone, D., Shadel, W. G., Jencius, S.  (2001).  Social-Cognitive theory of personality assessment.  Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5, 33-51.

Emmons, R. A., & McAdams, D. P.  (1991).  Personal strivings and motive dispositions: Exploring the links.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 6, 648-654.

Fleeson, W.   (2001).  Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: Traits as density distributions of states.  Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 80, 1011-1027.

Hurlburt, R. T.  (1997).  Randomly sampling thinking in the natural environment.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 941-949.

Loevinger, J.  (1993).  Measurement of personality: True or false.  Psychological Inquiry, 4, 1-16. 

Loevinger, J.  (1966).  The meaning and measurement of ego development.  American Psychologist, 21, 195-206.

McClelland, D. C., Koestner, R., Weinberger, J. (1989).  How do self-attributed and implicit motives differ? Psychological Review, 96, 690-702.

Winter, D. G., John, O. P., Stewart, A. J., Klohnen, E. C., Duncan, L. E.  (1998).  Traits and motives: Toward an integration of two traditions in personality research.  Psychological Review, 105, 230-250.

Craik, K. H. (1997). Circumnavigating the personality as a whole: the challenges of integrative methodological pluralism. Journal of Personality, 65, 1087-1111.

Greenwald, A. G., Farnham, S. D.  (2000) Using the Implicit Association Test to measure self-esteem and self-concept.  Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 79, 1022-1038.

Roberts, B. W., & Donahue, E. M.  (1994).  One personality, multiple selves:  Integrating personality and social roles.  Journal of Personality. 62, 201-218.

Runyan, W. M.  (1981).  Why did Van Gogh cut off his ear? The problem of alternative explanations in psychobiography.  Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 40, 1070-1077.

April 28^th: Personality assessment under attack, again.

                        Paul, A. M.  (2004).  The Cult of Personality