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Overview

Daniel A. Briley is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Psychology, with specific contributions in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their work spans a variety of topics, including cognitive abilities and testing, personality traits and psychology, mental health research topics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, grit, self-efficacy, and motivation, as well as evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Briley has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Personality stability and change: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies., 2022, Psychological Bulletin
  • Change Goals Robustly Predict Trait Growth: A Mega-Analysis of a Dozen Intensive Longitudinal Studies Examining Volitional Change, 2020, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Adolescent vocational interests predict early career success: Two 12-year longitudinal studies, 2021, Applied Psychology
  • Life events sometimes alter the trajectory of personality development: Effect sizes for 25 life events estimated using a large, frequently assessed sample, 2023, Journal of Personality
  • Personality Changes Predict Early Career Outcomes: Discovery and Replication in 12-Year Longitudinal Studies, 2020, Psychological Science

Frequent collaborators in Briley's research include Joseph R. Cohen, Anqing Zheng, Jaime Derringer, Nathan W. Hudson, and R. Chris Fraley.

Their publications often appear in recurring venues such as:

  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Psychological Bulletin
  • Journal of Personality
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Research in Personality

Best Publications

  • A systematic review of personality trait change through intervention.

    Brent W. Roberts;Jing Luo;Daniel A. Briley;Philip I. Chow

  • Genetic and Environmental Continuity in Personality Development: A Meta-Analysis

    Daniel A. Briley;Elliot M. Tucker-Drob

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Cognition Across Development and Context

    Elliot M. Tucker-Drob;Daniel A. Briley;K. Paige Harden

  • Personality stability and change: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

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  • Continuity of genetic and environmental influences on cognition across the life span: a meta-analysis of longitudinal twin and adoption studies.

    Elliot M. Tucker-Drob;Daniel A. Briley

  • Explaining the Increasing Heritability of Cognitive Ability Across Development A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Twin and Adoption Studies

    Daniel Andrew Briley;Elliot M. Tucker-Drob

  • Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations

    Felix C. Tropf;S. Hong Lee;Renske M. Verweij;Gert Stulp

  • A meta-analysis of longitudinal associations between substance use and interpersonal attachment security.

    Catharine E. Fairbairn;Daniel A. Briley;Dahyeon Kang;R. Chris Fraley

  • Genes Unite Executive Functions in Childhood

    Laura E. Engelhardt;Daniel Andrew Briley;Frank D. Mann;K. Paige Harden

  • You have to follow through: Attaining behavioral change goals predicts volitional personality change

    Nathan W. Hudson;Daniel A. Briley;William J. Chopik;Jaime Derringer

  • Genetically-mediated associations between measures of childhood character and academic achievement

    Elliot M. Tucker-Drob;Daniel A. Briley;Laura E. Engelhardt;Frank D. Mann

  • Comparing the Developmental Genetics of Cognition and Personality over the Life Span

    Daniel A. Briley;Elliot M. Tucker-Drob

  • Normative changes in interests from adolescence to adulthood: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

    Kevin A Hoff;Daniel A Briley;Colin J M Wee;James Rounds

  • Differential innovation of smartphone and application use by sociodemographics and personality

    Yeolib Kim;Daniel A. Briley;Melissa G. Ocepek

  • Strong genetic overlap between executive functions and intelligence.

    Laura E. Engelhardt;Frank D. Mann;Daniel A. Briley;Jessica A. Church

  • Personality Stability and Change: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

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  • Sensation seeking and impulsive traits as personality endophenotypes for antisocial behavior: Evidence from two independent samples

    Frank D. Mann;Laura Engelhardt;Daniel A. Briley;Andrew D. Grotzinger

  • Child Characteristics and Parental Educational Expectations: Evidence for Transmission with Transaction.

    Daniel A. Briley;K. Paige Harden;Elliot M. Tucker-Drob

  • Structure and correlates of cognitive aging in a narrow age cohort.

    Elliot M. Tucker-Drob;Daniel A. Briley;John M. Starr;Ian J. Deary

  • Change Goals Robustly Predict Trait Growth: A Mega-Analysis of a Dozen Intensive Longitudinal Studies Examining Volitional Change:

    Nathan W. Hudson;R. Chris Fraley;William J. Chopik;Daniel A. Briley

  • Behaviour Genetic Frameworks of Causal Reasoning for Personality Psychology

    Daniel A. Briley;Jonathan Livengood;Jaime Derringer

  • Genetic influences on hormonal markers of chronic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function in human hair.

    E. M. Tucker-Drob;A. D. Grotzinger;D. A. Briley;L. E. Engelhardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot M. Tucker-Drob
Elliot M. Tucker-Drob The University of Texas at Austin
K. Paige Harden
K. Paige Harden The University of Texas at Austin
Jennifer L. Tackett
Jennifer L. Tackett Northwestern University
William J. Chopik
William J. Chopik Michigan State University
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Rounds
James Rounds University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
René Mõttus
René Mõttus University of Edinburgh
R. Chris Fraley
R. Chris Fraley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Andres Metspalu
Andres Metspalu University of Tartu

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