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Christopher J. Soto

Christopher J. Soto

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Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
16562
World Ranking
8039
National Ranking
4298

Overview

Christopher J. Soto is affiliated with Colby College in the United States and has made contributions primarily within the field of Psychology. They have published extensively, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Safety Research, and Education.

Their work emphasizes several main topics, including Personality Traits and Psychology, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Emotional Intelligence and Performance, Mental Health Research Topics, and Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression.

Christopher J. Soto has authored multiple recent papers. Notable publications include:

  • An integrative framework for conceptualizing and assessing social, emotional, and behavioral skills: The BESSI., 2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Taking Skills Seriously: Toward an Integrative Model and Agenda for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills, 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science

In addition to those, Christopher J. Soto's frequent publication venues feature journals such as:

  • European Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Assessment
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Journal of Personality

Coauthor collaboration forms a significant part of their research output. Frequent coauthors include Oliver P. John, Christopher M. Napolitano, Brent W. Roberts, Madison N. Sewell, and Heejun Roy Yoon.

Their research integrates concepts from personality psychology with social, emotional, and behavioral skill development. The work explores how these skills contribute to success during adolescence and across the lifespan.

Best Publications

  • Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and conceptual issues.

    Oliver P. John;Laura P. Naumann;Christopher J. Soto

  • The next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power.

    Christopher J. Soto;Oliver P. John

  • Age differences in personality traits from 10 to 65: Big Five domains and facets in a large cross-sectional sample.

    Christopher J. Soto;Oliver P. John;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • Short and extra-short forms of the Big Five Inventory–2: The BFI-2-S and BFI-2-XS

    Christopher J. Soto;Oliver P. John

  • The developmental psychometrics of big five self-reports: acquiescence, factor structure, coherence, and differentiation from ages 10 to 20.

    Christopher J. Soto;Oliver P. John;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • Ten facet scales for the Big Five Inventory: Convergence with NEO PI-R facets, self-peer agreement, and discriminant validity

    Christopher J. Soto;Oliver P. John

  • How Replicable Are Links Between Personality Traits and Consequential Life Outcomes? The Life Outcomes of Personality Replication Project:

    Christopher J. Soto

  • Tracking the trajectory of shame, guilt, and pride across the life span.

    Ulrich Orth;Richard W. Robins;Christopher J. Soto

  • Is Happiness Good for Your Personality? Concurrent and Prospective Relations of the Big Five with Subjective Well-Being

    Christopher J. Soto

  • Personality Traits in Childhood and Adolescence: Structure, Development, and Outcomes

    Christopher J. Soto;Jennifer L. Tackett

  • Do needs for security and certainty predict cultural and economic conservatism? A cross-national analysis.

    Ariel Malka;Christopher J. Soto;Michael Inzlicht;Yphtach Lelkes

  • Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

    Ariel Malka;Yphtach Lelkes;Christopher J. Soto

  • Up and down in middle age: monotonic and nonmonotonic changes in roles, status, and personality.

    Ravenna Helson;Christopher J. Soto

  • Validation of the Short and Extra-Short Forms of the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) and Their German Adaptations

    Beatrice Rammstedt;Daniel Danner;Christopher J. Soto;Oliver P. John

  • The importance of being valid: Reliability and the process of construct validation.

    Oliver P. John;Christopher J. Soto

  • Development of Big Five Domains and Facets in Adulthood: Mean-Level Age Trends and Broadly Versus Narrowly Acting Mechanisms

    Christopher J. Soto;Oliver P. John

  • Rigidity of the Economic Right? Menu-Independent and Menu-Dependent Influences of Psychological Dispositions on Political Attitudes:

    Ariel Malka;Christopher J. Soto

  • The Little Six Personality Dimensions From Early Childhood to Early Adulthood: Mean-Level Age and Gender Differences in Parents' Reports.

    Christopher J. Soto

  • Das Big Five Inventar 2 : Validierung eines Persönlichkeitsinventars zur Erfassung von 5 Persönlichkeitsdomänen und 15 Facetten

    Daniel Danner;Beatrice Rammstedt;Matthias Bluemke;Clemens M. Lechner

  • Die deutsche Version des Big Five Inventory 2 (BFI-2)

    Daniel Danner;Beatrice Rammstedt;Matthias Bluemke;Lisa Treiber

  • Five-Factor Model of Personality

    Christopher J. Soto;Joshua J. Jackson

  • Taking Skills Seriously: Toward an Integrative Model and Agenda for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills:

    Christopher J. Soto;Christopher M. Napolitano;Christopher M. Napolitano;Brent W. Roberts;Brent W. Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver P. John
Oliver P. John University of California, Berkeley
René Mõttus
René Mõttus University of Edinburgh
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beatrice Rammstedt
Beatrice Rammstedt Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Jennifer L. Tackett
Jennifer L. Tackett Northwestern University
Richard E. Lucas
Richard E. Lucas Michigan State University
M. Brent Donnellan
M. Brent Donnellan Michigan State University
Marcel A. G. van Aken
Marcel A. G. van Aken Utrecht University
Fritz Ostendorf
Fritz Ostendorf Bielefeld University
Jeff Potter
Jeff Potter Brown University

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