Christopher Soto

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5/5 The full paper is freely available here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

4/5 Key finding #3: Kids whose skills increased over time also experienced positive life outcomes, including better academic engagement, friendship quality, and well-being. So skill changes matter for adolescents' success.

1/5 New paper! How do adolescents' personality traits and skills change across a school year? And how are these changes linked with academics, social relationships, and well-being? New paper led by @cmnapolitano in press at @EJPBlog Brief highlights in the thread below...

🚨 New Research Alert 🚨 Are you and your partner two peas in a pod, or do opposites attract? Together with @R_Gabriel_Olaru and Thomas Leopold, I explored why long-term couples are similar in personality. Check out our preprint (to appear in JPSP) here: osf.io/2s5ua/

Read more about this #OpenAccess cross-cultural adaptation of the BFI-2 at econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/10… @roemerlele @cjsotomatic

Think psychological findings need to be replicated in diverse samples? Then here’s one for you by @RStewartPsy: Personality traits' correlations with other things usually replicated well among English, Russian and Chinese speakers. doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.…

I’m reviewing applications for PhD students to join me at @UMNPsych in 2025! Apply if interested in the intersection of clinical and personality science, HiTOP, and using intensive longitudinal methods to study patterns of everyday behavior that maintain psychopathology. Info:

Life satisfaction is highly consistent with your personality. 🧵1/10

Life satisfaction is mostly about personality, for most people, most of the time. Even more so, than we thought. Likely the most comprehensive study yet is now out in the JPSP: doi.org/10.1037/pspp00… 🧵

Further multi-type, multi-sample evidence that personality traits form a hierarchy all the way down to its individual 'symptoms' (which we call nuances). Lead by @samueljhenry8 doi.org/10.1177/014616…

Want to measure social, emotional, and behavioral skills, but only have a couple minutes of assessment time to spare? @madisonswell has you covered! The BESSI short forms are now in press at Assessment, and freely available at sebskills.com/the-bessi.html

Late-breaking VAP of Psychology search at Colby College! Area flexible, with a preference for social/personality, clinical, or developmental. One-year initial term with possible reappointment. If you're an aspiring teacher/scholar, check it out! apply.interfolio.com/145194

The #SIOP2024 (I/O psych) and #WCP2024 audience may be interested in the interactive web app showing personality trait differences among 263 jobs. (Psychologists are among the most open occupations, btw. And actors are the most neurotic, it turns out.) apps.psych.ut.ee/JobProfiles/

@realBSConnelly @David_J_Hughes Just to clarify, I wasn’t quite that cavalier about it… But I do think that emphasizing skills vs traits matters for people’s reactions to real-world applications of personality science.

@David_J_Hughes #4. WCP was buzzing after @cjsotomatic’s keynote on developing 5 FFM-ish skills in kids. ~“If you tell schools that you want to change kids’ personality, they think you’re evil. But if you say you’ll develop Social-Emotional-Behavioral skills, it’s ‘Come right in.’” (7)

#WCP2024 (personality) and #SIOP2024 (I/O psych) conferences were back-to-back. Research silos are a major pet peeve, so here's a comparison 🧵to facilitate conversations between the two. (1/16)