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Our Research
The Roberts Lab researches how personality develops across the lifespan and what factors contribute to those changes. We also investigate characteristics like social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills, self-regulation, impulse control, and narcissism. What Can You Expect from Our Tests? On the website, you will find many tests developed by our team, many of which offer immediate feedback about your personality traits, skills, and other personal characteristics. By participating, you might be contributing to some of our research. Current Research We are currently carrying out different research projects. One of them is developing the Some Totally Unreasonable People in Denial Scale (STUPID Scale), which assesses people's training behaviors and poor recovery practices. This project also helps us identifying which sports are associated with more reckless training behaviors and injuries. We also assess Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills (SEB Skills), which allow test takers to assess their skills across different domains. The BESSI has been carefully developed and validated and provides a comprehensive assessment of SEB skills. It assesses the following skill domains and their facets: Self-Management, Social Engagement, Cooperation, Emotional Resilience, and Innovation Skills. The inventory is currently being translated into different languages, with adaptations already available in German, Spanish, and Italian, among others. In addition to these, we are currently doing research on the Big Five traits and vocational interests, and whether their relationship to creative achievement is influenced by gender. Furthermore, we study impulse control, focusing on how individuals manage their impulses across different domains. |
Roberts' Lab in the Media
Razib Khan Podcast (2023)
Razib discusses personality with Brent Roberts, including what personality is as a psychological construct, the Big Five Personality system and how it relates to the Myers-Briggs framework, heritability of personality's subcomponents, the evolutionary context of personality variation, personality traits over one's lifetime, and how different traits correlate with life outcomes.
Keep Talking Podcast (2023)
Dr. Roberts talks about the Big Five personality traits, what personality is, differences between the Big Five and the Myers-Briggs personality test, diversity in human personality, the role of genes and sex differences in personality, evolutionary psychology, the stability of one's personality over time, how to decrease trait neuroticism, and practical applications of personality research.
The Social-Behavioral Coffee Hour (2022)
Dr. Brent Roberts discusses his journey into psychology, what personality is, cultural conversations around personality and human nature as they relate to narcissism, birth order, and parenting, personality change, and how we can strive to change while also honoring who we are at our core.
The Dissenter (2021)
In this interview, Dr. Roberts discusses the big five model of personality, the relationship between personality and social roles, the influence of culture on personality, narcissism and its association with the dark triad, the stability of personality traits over time, and the role of personality in predicting important life outcomes such as job success and relationship satisfaction.
School Psyched Podcast (2020)
Dr. Roberts discusses personality development and social-emotional skills, focusing on why people stay the same or change over time, how social-emotional skills can be measured and applied in educational settings, and the importance of considering both positive and negative aspects of personality when assessing individual strengths and weaknesses.
Two Psychologists Four Beers (2019)
Dr. Roberts shares his thoughts on a broad range of topics: candidate gene studies, personality, conscientiousness, modern societal challenges, and the impact of technology on generations. He discusses what personality is and how it changes, why people love the Myers-Briggs personality test, how conscientiousness might have helped in our ancestral past, and whether smartphone use has impacted a generation.
HCEO Global Working Group (2018)
Dr. Roberts' lecture focuses on the measurement and assessment of skills. He discusses the challenges of measuring skills in a valid and reliable way, proposes a new approach based on social genomics, and explains how this can provide a more accurate assessment of a person's abilities.
SSSI 2018 Bonn (2018)
Dr. Roberts discusses his research on personality and human capital at the HCEO Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality in Bonn. He talks about viewing personality as a resource, key concepts in personality psychology such as the Big Five traits, and the role of personality in life outcomes.