Brent W. Roberts

Personality Assessment and Development Lab

Research Objectives

Our research program focuses on personality development in adulthood and on personality assessment. Four goals guide this program: 1) Establish the overall pattern of consistency and change in personality traits across the life course; 2) Test hypotheses concerning why personality traits are consistent and why they change; 3) Personality assessment, including determine the meaning and scope of the trait of conscientiousness and test its relationship to the health process; 4) develop a general theory of personality development in adulthood. Our research is supported by grants from the National Institute of Aging (RO1 AG21178), the University of Illinois Research Board, and the Center for Human Resource Management.

Lab members

Jenna Meints

Allumni

Michelle Webb (now at the UIUC grad program in Brain and Cognition)

Kate Walton (now an Assistant Professor at St Johns University)

David Chuah (now at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)

Tim Bogg (now a post doc at the Biobehavioral Alcohol Research Lab at Indiana University)