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Dustin Wood is affiliated with the University of Alabama in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as organizational behavior and human resource management.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics related to personality traits and psychology, mental health research, personality disorders and psychopathology, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, social and intergroup psychology, behavioral health and interventions, and emotional intelligence and performance.

Recent publications include:

  • Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits (2020), published in European Journal of Personality
  • Bottom Up Construction of a Personality Taxonomy (2020), published in European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • Does leadership still not need emotional intelligence? Continuing "The Great EI Debate" (2021), published in The Leadership Quarterly
  • Leadership perceptions, gender, and dominant personality: The role of normality evaluations (2020), published in Journal of Research in Personality
  • Selection tests work better than we think they do, and have for years (2024), published in Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Dustin Wood has coauthored numerous papers with colleagues such as:

  • Peter D. Harms
  • P. D. Harms
  • Graham H. Lowman
  • Emmanuel Kofi Adanu
  • René Mõttus

Their work has appeared in a range of publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
  • European Journal of Personality
  • European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • The Leadership Quarterly

Best Publications

  • The development of personality traits in adulthood.

    Brent W. Roberts;Dustin Wood;Avshalom Caspi

  • Evaluating Five Factor Theory and social investment perspectives on personality trait development

    Brent W. Roberts;Dustin Wood;Jennifer L. Smith

  • Personality Development in the Context of the Neo-Socioanalytic Model of Personality.

    Brent W. Roberts;Dustin Wood

  • Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development:

    Anna Baumert;Anna Baumert;Manfred Schmitt;Marco Perugini;Wendy Johnson

  • What do conscientious people do? Development and validation of the Behavioral Indicators of Conscientiousness (BIC)

    Joshua J. Jackson;Dustin Wood;Tim Bogg;Kate E. Walton

  • Lay Theory of Race Affects and Moderates Asian Americans' Responses Toward American Culture

    Sun No;Ying-yi Hong;Hsin-Ya Liao;Kyoungmi Lee

  • Self‐Regulation Underlies Temperament and Personality: An Integrative Developmental Framework

    Jaap J. A. Denissen;Marcel A. G. van Aken;Lars Penke;Dustin Wood

  • Perceptions and expectations of autonomous vehicles – A snapshot of vulnerable road user opinion

    Praveena Penmetsa;Emmanuel Kofi Adanu;Dustin Wood;Teng Wang

  • Response Speed and Response Consistency as Mutually Validating Indicators of Data Quality in Online Samples

    Dustin Wood;P. D. Harms;Graham H. Lowman;Justin A. DeSimone

  • Not all conscientiousness scales change alike: a multimethod, multisample study of age differences in the facets of conscientiousness.

    Joshua J. Jackson;Tim Bogg;Kate E. Walton;Dustin Wood

  • Perceiver effects as projective tests: what your perceptions of others say about you.

    Dustin Wood;Peter D. Harms;Simine Vazire

  • A Three–Part Framework for Self–Regulated Personality Development across Adulthood:

    Marie Hennecke;Wiebke Bleidorn;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Dustin Wood

  • Cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of the Personality and Role Identity Structural Model (PRISM).

    Dustin Wood;Brent W. Roberts

  • Autocratic leaders and authoritarian followers revisited: A review and agenda for the future.

    P.D. Harms;Dustin Wood;Karen Landay;Paul B. Lester

  • Mechanisms of health: Education and health-related behaviours partially mediate the relationship between conscientiousness and self-reported physical health

    Jennifer Lodi-Smith;Joshua Jackson;Tim Bogg;Kate Walton

  • Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits:

    Rene Mottus;Rene Mottus;Dustin Wood;David Condon;Mitja D. Back

  • How functionalist and process approaches to behavior can explain trait covariation.

    Dustin Wood;Molly Hensler Gardner;Peter D. Harms

  • The Correlates of Similarity Estimates Are Often Misleadingly Positive The Nature and Scope of the Problem, and Some Solutions

    Dustin Wood;R. Michael Furr

  • Using revealed mate preferences to evaluate market force and differential preference explanations for mate selection.

    Dustin Wood;Claudia Chloe Brumbaugh

  • The personality traits of liked people

    Jessica Wortman;Dustin Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Harms
Peter D. Harms University of Alabama
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
R. Michael Furr
R. Michael Furr Wake Forest University
Jaap J. A. Denissen
Jaap J. A. Denissen Utrecht University
Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson University of Edinburgh
René Mõttus
René Mõttus University of Edinburgh
Joshua J. Jackson
Joshua J. Jackson Washington University in St. Louis
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Marco Perugini
Marco Perugini University of Milano-Bicocca
Michael D. Robinson
Michael D. Robinson North Dakota State University

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