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Overview

Jeff Potter is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a distinctive focus on several subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Demography.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Potter's publication record comprises numerous articles in significant journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Personality Science
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Potter include:

  • "Physical topography is associated with human personality" (2020), Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Universals and variations in musical preferences: A study of preferential reactions to Western music in 53 countries." (2022), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and Their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial-Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality" (2021), Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality: Evidence from the United States, Europe, and a large-scale natural experiment" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness" (2023), Research Policy

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Samuel D. Gosling
  • Peter J. Rentfrow
  • Martin Obschonka
  • Jochen E. Gebauer
  • Wiebke Bleidorn

Jeff Potter's interdisciplinary research approach bridges psychological traits with social and cultural factors, exploring diverse themes such as personality, regional variation, and the influence of environmental factors like lead exposure.

Best Publications

  • Development of personality in early and middle adulthood: set like plaster or persistent change?

    Sanjay Srivastava;Oliver P. John;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind

    Dana R. Carney;John T. Jost;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • 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

  • Global self-esteem across the life span.

    Richard W. Robins;Kali H. Trzesniewski;Jessica L. Tracy;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Comparing the Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients across distributions and sample sizes: A tutorial using simulations and empirical data.

    Joost C. F. de Winter;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • Age and Gender Differences in Self-Esteem—A Cross-Cultural Window

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Ruben C. Arslan;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • Personality Correlates of Self-Esteem

    Richard W. Robins;Jessica L. Tracy;Kali Trzesniewski;Jeff Potter

  • A Theory of the Emergence, Persistence, and Expression of Geographic Variation in Psychological Characteristics.

    Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • 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

  • Development and validation of a Dutch translation of the Big Five Inventory (BFI).

    Jaap J A Denissen;Rinie Geenen;Marcel A G van Aken;Samuel D Gosling

  • Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching

    Nairán Ramírez-Esparza;Samuel D. Gosling;Verónica Benet-Martínez;Jeffrey P. Potter

  • Personality Maturation Around the World A Cross-Cultural Examination of Social-Investment Theory

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Theo A. Klimstra;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • Divided we stand: three psychological regions of the United States and their political, economic, social, and health correlates.

    Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling;Markus Jokela;David J. Stillwell

  • The Regional Distribution and Correlates of an Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profile in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom: A Socioecological Perspective

    Martin Obschonka;Eva Schmitt-Rodermund;Rainer K. Silbereisen;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Music through the ages: Trends in musical engagement and preferences from adolescence through middle adulthood.

    Arielle Bonneville-Roussy;Peter J. Rentfrow;Man K. Xu;Jeff Potter

  • Entrepreneurship culture, knowledge spillovers and the growth of regions

    Michael Stuetzer;David B. Audretsch;Martin Obschonka;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations

    Rachid Laajaj;Karen Macours;Karen Macours;Daniel Alejandro Pinzon Hernandez;Omar Arias

  • Digital artifacts for remembering and storytelling: posthistory and social network fragments

    F.B. Viegas;D. Boyd;D.H. Nguyen;J. Potter

  • The Camberwell Collaborative Depression Study. I. Depressed probands: adversity and the form of depression.

    P E Bebbington;T Brugha;B MacCarthy;J Potter

  • Entrepreneurial Regions: Do Macro-psychological Cultural Characteristics of Regions help solve the “Knowledge Paradox” of Economics?

    Martin Obschonka;Michael Stuetzer;Samuel D. Gosling;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • Gender, Social support and recovery from depressive disorders: a prospective clinical study

    T. S. Brugha;P. E. Bebbington;B. MacCarthy;E. Sturt

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel D. Gosling
Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin
Peter J. Rentfrow
Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge
Wiebke Bleidorn
Wiebke Bleidorn University of Zurich
Jochen E. Gebauer
Jochen E. Gebauer University of Mannheim
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Rainer K. Silbereisen Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
Jaap J. A. Denissen
Jaap J. A. Denissen Utrecht University
Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Oliver P. John
Oliver P. John University of California, Berkeley
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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