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1. Helson, R., & Roberts, B. W. (1992).  Personality of young adult couples and wives' work patterns.  Journal of Personality, 60, 575-597. 

2. Donahue, E. M., Robins, R. W., Roberts, B. W., & John, O. P.  (1993).  The divided self: Concurrent and longitudinal effects of psychological adjustment and social roles on self-concept differentiation.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 834-846.

3. Helson, R., & Roberts, B. W.  (1994).  Ego development and personality change in adulthood.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 911-920.

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

5. Covington, M., & Roberts, B. W.  (1994).  Self-worth and college achievement: Motivational and personality correlates.  In P.R. Pintrich, D. Brown, & C.E. Weinstein (Eds.), Perspectives on Student Motivation, Cognition, and Learning: Essays in Honor of Wilbert J. McKeachie (pp. 157-187).  New JerseyLawrence Erlbaum Associates.

6. Bernstein, D., & Roberts, B. W.  (1995).  Assessing dreams through self-report questionnaires:  Relations with past research, sleep, and personality.  Journal of Dreaming, 5, 13 - 27.

7. Helson, R., Roberts, B. W., & Agronick, G.  (1995).  Enduringness and change in creative personality and the prediction of occupational creativity.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 1173 - 1183.

8. Hogan, R., Hogan, J., & Roberts, B.  (1996).  Personality measurement and employment decisions: Questions and answers.  American Psychologist, 51, 469-477.

9. Hogan, J., & Roberts , B. (1996).  Issues and non-issues in the fidelity/bandwidth tradeoff.  Journal of Organizational Behavior, 17, 627-637.

10. Roberts, B. W., & Helson, R.  (1997).  Changes in culture, changes in personality: The influence of individualism in a longitudinal study of women.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 641-651.

11. Roberts, B. W.  (1997).  Plaster or plasticity: Are work experiences associated with personality change in women?  Journal of Personality, 65, 205-232.

12. Brod, M., Medelsohn, G., & Roberts, B. W.  (1998).  Patient’s experience of Parkinson’s Disease.  Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, 53, 213-222.

13. Roberts, B. W., & Friend, W. (1998).  Career momentum in midlife women: Life context, identity, and personality correlates.  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 3, 195-208.

14. Caspi, A. & Roberts, B. W.  (1999).  Personality change and continuity across the life course.  In L. A. Pervin & O. P. John, Handbook of Personality Theory and Research (Vol. 2, pp. 300 - 326).  New York: Guilford Press.

15. Roberts, B. W., & Chapman, C.  (2000).  Change in dispositional well-being and its relation to role quality: A 30-year longitudinal study. Journal of Research in Personality, 34, 26-41. pdf

16. 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 (pp. 1-24) Mahway, NJ: Earlbaum.

17. Roberts, B. W., & DelVecchio, W. F.  (2000). The rank-order consistency of personality from childhood to old age: A quantitative review of longitudinal studies.  Psychological Bulletin, 126, 3-25.

18. Roberts, B. W., & Robins, R. W.  (2000).  Broad dispositions, broad aspirations: The intersection of the Big Five dimensions and major life goals.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1284-1296.

19. Roberts, B. W., & Hogan, R.  (2001).  Personality Psychology in the WorkplaceWashington, DC: American Psychological Association.

20. Hogan, R., & Roberts, B. W.  (2001).  Personality and I/O psychology. In B.W. Roberts & R. T. Hogan (Eds.), Personality Psychology in the Workplace (p. 3-18).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

21. Caspi, A., & Roberts, B. W.  (2001).  Personality development across the life span: The argument for change and continuity.  Psychological Inquiry, 12, 49-66.

22. Roberts, B. W., & Caspi, A.  (2001).  Personality development and the person-situation debate: It’s déjà vu all over again.  Psychological Inquiry, 12, 104-109.

23. Roberts, B. W.  (2001).  Motives, values, preferences inventory.  In B. S. Plake & J. C. Impara (Eds.), The Fourteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook (pp. 781-783)Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

24. Roberts, B. W.  (2001).  Sales Achievement Predictor.  In B. S. Plake & J. C. Impara (Eds.), The Fourteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook (pp. 1049-1051)Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

25. Robins, R. W., Fraley, C., Roberts, B. W., & Trzesniewski. K.  (2001).  A longitudinal study of personality change in young adulthood.  Journal of Personality, 69, 617-640.

26. Roberts, B. W., Caspi, A, & Moffitt, T.  (2001).  The kids are alright: Growth and stability in personality development from adolescence to adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 670-683.

27. Roberts, B.W., Helson, R., & Klohnen, E. C.  (2002).  Personality development and growth in women across 30 years: Three perspectives. Journal of Personality, 70, 79-102.

28. Roberts, B. W., & Caspi, A.  (2003). The cumulative continuity model of personality development: Striking a balance between continuity and change in personality traits across the life course.  R. M. Staudinger & U. Lindenberger (Eds.), Understanding Human Development: Lifespan Psychology in Exchange with Other Disciplines (pp. 183-214).  Dordrecht, NL: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

29. Roberts, B. W., Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T.  (2003). Work experiences and personality development in young adulthood.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 582-593.

30. Roberts, B. W.  (2003).  Organizational behavior management and personality psychology: Reunited and it feels so good?  Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 22, 59-70.

31. Roberts, B. W., Robins, R. W., Caspi, A., Trzesniewski. K.  (2003).  Personality trait development in adulthood.  In J. Mortimer & M. Shanahan (Ed.).  Handbook of the Life Course (pp. 579-598). New York, NY: Kluwer Academic.

32. Roberts, B. W., & Robins, R. W.  (2004).  A longitudinal study of person-environment fit and personality development.  Journal of Personality, 72, 89-110.

33. Roberts, B. W., Bogg, T., Walton, K., Chernyshenko, O., & Stark, S.  (2004). A lexical approach to identifying the lower-order structure of conscientiousness.  Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 164-178.

34. Roberts, B. W., & Bogg, T.  (2004) A 30-year longitudinal study of the relationships between conscientiousness-related traits, and the family structure and health-behavior factors that affect health.  Journal of Personality, 72, 325-354.

35. Trzesniewski, K. H., Robins, R. W., Roberts, B. W., & Caspi, A. (2004).  Personality and self-esteem development across the lifespan.  In P. T. Costa, Jr. and I. C. Siegler (Eds), Recent advances in psychology and aging (pp. 163-185).  Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

36. Hogan, R., & Roberts, B. W.  (2004).  A socioanalytic model of maturity.  Journal of Career Assessment, 12, 207-217.

37. Roberts, B. W., O'Donnell, M., & Robins, R. W.  (2004). Goal and Personality Trait Development in Emerging Adulthood.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 541-550.

38. Bogg, T. & Roberts, B. W.  (2004). Conscientiousness and health behaviors: A meta-analysis.  Psychological Bulletin, 130, 887-919.

39. Walton, K., & Roberts, B. W.  (2004).  On the Relationship between Substance Use and Personality Traits: Abstainers are not Maladjusted. Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 515-535.

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

41. Roberts, B. W., Wood, D., & Smith, J. L.  (2005). Evaluating Five Factor Theory and Social Investment Perspectives on Personality Trait Development.  Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 166-184.

42. Fraley, C., & Roberts, B. W.  (2005).  Patterns of Continuity: A Dynamic Model for Conceptualizing the Stability of Individual Differences in Psychological Constructs Across the Life CoursePsychological Review, 112, 60-74.

43. Caspi, A., Roberts, B. W., Shiner, R.  (2005).  Personality development.  Annual Review of Psychology, 56, 453-484

44. Roberts, B. W., Chernyshenko, O., Stark, S. & Goldberg, L. (2005). The structure of conscientiousness: An empirical investigation based on seven major personality questionnairesPersonnel Psychology, 58, 103-139.

45. Robins, R. W., Noftle, E. E., Trzesniewski, K. H., & Roberts, B. W.  (2005).  Do People Know How Their Personality Has Changed:  Correlates of Perceived and Actual Personality Change in Young Adulthood.  Journal of Personality, 73, 489-521.

46.  Roberts, B. W., Walton, K., & Bogg, T.  (2005).  Conscientiousness and Health Across the Life Course.  Review of General Psychology, 9, 156-168.

47. Low, D. K., S., Yoon, M., Roberts, B. W., & Rounds. J.  (2005).  The stability of interests from early adolescence to middle adulthood: A quantitative review of longitudinal studies.  Psychological Bulletin, 131, 713-737.

48.  Roberts, B. W.  (2005).  Blessings, banes, and possibilities in the study of childhood personality.  Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 51, 367-378.

49.  Roberts, B. W., Harms, P.D., Smith, J., Wood, D. & Webb, M.  (2006).  Methods in personality psychology.  In Eid, M. & Diener, E.  (Eds.).  Handbook of Psychological Assessment: A Multimethod Perspective (Chapter22, pp. 321-335)Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

50.  Roberts, B. W., Walton, K. & Viechtbauer, W.  (2006).  Patterns of mean-Level change in personality traits across the life course: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 1-25.

51.  Roberts, B. W., Walton, K., & Viechtbauer, W.  (2006).  Personality changes in adulthood: Reply to Costa & McCrae (2006).  Psychological Bulletin, 132, 29-32.

52.  Roberts, B. W., & Wood, D.  (2006).  Personality development in the context of the Neo-Socioanalytic Model of personality (Chapter 2, pp. 11-39).  In D. Mroczek & T. Little (Eds.), Handbook of Personality DevelopmentMahwah, NJ: Lawrance Erlbaum Associates.

53. Wood, D., & Roberts, B. W.  (2006).  Cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of the personality and role identity structural model (PRISM).  Journal of Personality, 74, 779- 809.

54.  Roberts, B. W.  (2006).  Personality development and organizational behavior (Chapter 1, pp 1-41).  In B. M. Staw (Ed.).  Research on Organizational Behavior. Elsevier Science/JAI Press.

55.  Chuah, S. C., Drasgow, F., & Roberts, B. W.  (2006).  Personality assessment: Does the medium matter? NoJournal of Research in Personality, 40, 359-376.

56.  Harms, P. D., Roberts, B. W., & Winter, D. (2006). Becoming the Harvard man:  Person-environment fit, personality development, and academic success.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 851-865.

57.  Roberts, B. W.  (2006).  From kindling to conflagration: Self-regulation and personality change.  In K.W. Schaie & L.L. Carstensen (Eds.), Social structures, aging and self-regulation in the elderly (pp. 85-94).  New York, NY; Springer Publishing Company.

58.  Wood, D., & Roberts, B. W.  (2006). The effect of age and role information on expectations for Big Five personality traits.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1482-1496.

59.  Harms, P., Roberts, B., Wood, D. Bureau, D., & Green, A. M. (2006).  Perceptions of leadership in fraternal organizations.  Oracle, 2, 81-94.

60.  Roberts, B.W., Bogg, T., Walton, K., & Caspi, A.  (2006). De-investment in Work and Non-normative Personality Trait Change in Young Adulthood.  European Journal of Personality, 20, 461-474.

61. Lodi-Smith, J.L. & Roberts, B.W.  (2007).  Social Investment and Personality: A meta-analytic analysis of the relationship of personality traits to investment in work, family, religion, and volunteerism.  Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 68-86.

62. Chernyshenko, O.S., Stark, S., Drasgow, F., & Roberts, B.W.  (2007).  Constructing personality scales under the assumption of an ideal point response process: Toward increasing the flexibility of personality measures.  Psychological Assessment, 19, 88-106.

63. Roberts, B. W., Kuncel, N., Bogg, T., & Viechtbauer, W.  (2007).  Meta-analysis in personality psychology (Ch. 36, pp 652-672).  In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology.  New York, NY: Guilford Press.

64. Harms, P.D., Roberts, B.W., & Wood, D.  (2007). Who Shall Lead?  An Integrative Personality Approach to the Study of the Antecedents of Status in Informal Social Organizations.  Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 689-699.

65.  Roberts, B.W., Harms, P.D., Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T.E.  (2007).  Can we predict the counterproductive employee?  Evidence from a child-to-adult prospective study.  Evidence from a 23-year longitudinal study.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1427-1436.

66.  Roberts, B. W. (2007).  Contextualizing personality psychologyJournal of Personality, 75, 1071-1081.

67.  Roberts, B. W., Kuncel, N., Shiner, R., N., Caspi, A., & Goldberg, L. R.  (2007). The power of personality:  The comparative validity of personality traits, socio-economic status, and cognitive ability for predicting important life outcomes.  Perspectives in Psychological Science, 2, 313-345.

68. Edmonds, G., Jackson, J. J., Fayard, J. V., & Roberts, B. W.  (2008). Is character fate, or is there hope to change my personality yet?  Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 399-413.

69. Roberts, B. W. & Mroczek, D.  (2008). Personality trait change in adulthood.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 31-35.

70. Bogg, T, Webb, M.L., Wood, D., & Roberts, B. W.  (2008). A Hierarchical investigation of personality and behavior: examining Neo-Socioanalytic Models of health-related outcomes.  Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 183–207.

71. Roberts, B.W., Wood, D, & Caspi, A. (in press). Personality development.  In O.P. John, R.W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.), Handbook of personality: theory and research (3rd edition).  New York, NY: Guilford.

72. Walton, K. E., Roberts, B. W., Krueger, R. F., Blonigen, D. M., & Patrick, C. J.  (in press).  Capturing abnormal personality with normal personality inventories: An item response theory approach to the understanding of psychopathy.  Journal of Personality.

73. Roberts, B. W., & Jackson, J. J.  (in press).  Sociogenomic personality psychology. Journal of Personality.

74. Roberts, B. W., Jackson, J. J., Fayard, J. V., Edmonds, G., & Meints, J.  (in press).  Conscientiousness.  In M. Leary & R. Hoyle (Eds.), Handbook of individual differences in social behavior.  New York, NY: Guilford.

75.  Orth, U., Robins, R. W., & Roberts, B. W. (in press). Low Self-Esteem Prospectively Predicts Depression in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

 

 

 

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