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Gerard Saucier is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and has a notable research focus in the field of Psychology, with particular attention to clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and language and linguistics.

Their work covers a range of topics including personality traits and psychology, personality disorders and psychopathology, cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, linguistics, language diversity and identity, mental health research topics, and emotional intelligence and performance.

Recent publications by Gerard Saucier include the following papers:

  • Being spiritual but not religious (2020), published in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • ǂŪsigu: A mixed-method lexical study of character description in Khoekhoegowab (2020), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Absolutism, Relativism, and Universalism in Personality Traits Across Cultures: The Case of the Big Five (2022), published in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Comparing predictive validity in a community sample: High-dimensionality and traditional domain-and-facet structures of personality variation (2020), published in European Journal of Personality
  • Identifying contrasting themes that orchestrate personality expression across situations (2020), published in Personality and Individual Differences

Frequently publishing in specific venues, the list includes:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Gerard Saucier collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Amber Gayle Thalmayer
  • Elizabeth Shino
  • Sylvanus Job
  • Cameron S. Kay
  • Sarah L. Robinson

Best Publications

  • Mini-Markers: A brief version of Goldberg's unipolar Big-Five markers.

    Gerard Saucier

  • The language of personality: Lexical perspectives on the five-factor model.

    Gerard Saucier;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • What Is Beyond the Big Five

    Gerard Saucier;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Spiritual But Not Religious? Evidence for Two Independent Dispositions

    Gerard Saucier;Katarzyna Skrzypińska

  • Lexical Studies of Indigenous Personality Factors: Premises, Products, and Prospects

    Gerard Saucier;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Hierarchical subcomponents of the Big Five personality factors: a cross-language replication.

    Gerard Saucier;Fritz Ostendorf

  • Evidence for the Big Five in analyses of familiar English personality adjectives

    Gerard Saucier;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Isms and the structure of social attitudes

    Gerard Saucier

  • Studies of the 48 bp repeat polymorphism of the DRD4 gene in impulsive, compulsive, addictive behaviors: Tourette syndrome, ADHD, pathological gambling, and substance abuse.

    David E. Comings;Nancy Gonzalez;Shijuan Wu;Radhika Gade

  • Effects of variable selection on the factor structure of person descriptors.

    Gerard Saucier

  • Studies of the potential role of the dopamine D1 receptor gene in addictive behaviors

    D E Comings;R Gade;S Wu;C Chiu

  • Comparative validity of brief to medium-length Big Five and Big Six Personality Questionnaires.

    Amber Gayle Thalmayer;Gerard Saucier;Annemarie Eigenhuis

  • Recurrent personality dimensions in inclusive lexical studies: indications for a big six structure.

    Gerard Saucier

  • Replicable item-cluster subcomponents in the NEO Five-Factor Inventory.

    Gerard Saucier

  • Orthogonal Markers for Orthogonal Factors: The Case of the Big Five

    Gerard Saucier

  • Comparison of the role of dopamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline genes in ADHD, ODD and conduct disorder: multivariate regression analysis of 20 genes.

    David E Comings;Radhika Gade-Andavolu;Nancy Gonzalez;Shijuan Wu

  • A multivariate analysis of 59 candidate genes in personality traits: the temperament and character inventory.

    DE Comings;R Gade-Andavolu;N Gonzalez;S Wu

  • Cannabinoid receptor gene ( CNR1 ): association with IV drug use

    D E Comings;D Muhleman;R Gade;P Johnson

  • Multivariate analysis of associations of 42 genes in ADHD, ODD and conduct disorder

    David E Comings;Radhika Gade-Andavolu;Nancy Gonzalez;Shijuan Wu

  • A Basic Bivariate Structure of Personality Attributes Evident Across Nine Languages

    Gerard Saucier;Amber Gayle Thalmayer;Doris L. Payne;Robert Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Lazar Stankov
Lazar Stankov University of Sydney
Lewis R. Goldberg
Lewis R. Goldberg Oregon Research Institute
David E. Comings
David E. Comings City Of Hope National Medical Center
Fritz Ostendorf
Fritz Ostendorf Bielefeld University
A. Timothy Church
A. Timothy Church Washington State University
Marco Perugini
Marco Perugini University of Milano-Bicocca
Henry R. Lesieur
Henry R. Lesieur St. John's University
Oliver P. John
Oliver P. John University of California, Berkeley
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
José L. Luque
José L. Luque Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

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