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Julie Aitken Schermer

Julie Aitken Schermer

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Overview

Julie Aitken Schermer is a researcher affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their scholarly work spans fields within psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. They have contributed extensively to understanding personality traits, disorders, cognitive abilities, humor, emotional intelligence, and behavioral health.

The main fields of study for Schermer include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of research encompass:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Applied Psychology

The primary topics explored in their work cover:

  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Humor Studies and Applications
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being

Julie Aitken Schermer has published papers in several notable venues including:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Current Research in Behavioral Sciences
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Current Issues in Personality Psychology
  • Acta Psychologica

Frequent collaborative partners in their research include:

  • Kristi Baerg MacDonald
  • Christopher Marcin Kowalski
  • Radosław Rogoza
  • Sereena Dargan
  • Bruno Bonfá-Araujo

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Schermer reflect diverse topics related to emotional responses, climate anxiety, workplace loneliness, and personality models. These papers include:

  • "Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries," 2022, Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • "Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health: Cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries," 2021, Current Psychology
  • "Dark triads, tetrads, tents, and cores: Why navigate (research) the jungle of dark personality models without a compass (criterion)?," 2021, Acta Psychologica
  • "Predicting workplace loneliness in the nursing profession," 2020, Journal of Nursing Management
  • "Predicting Loneliness from Where and What People Do," 2020, Social Sciences

In addition to journal publications, Schermer contributed to book literature, including a work published by Cambridge University Press:

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology, 2020

Best Publications

  • Personality and Individual Differences

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  • A behavioural genetic study of mental toughness and personality

    Vanessa A. Horsburgh;Julie Aitken Schermer;Livia Veselka;Philip A. Vernon

  • Trait emotional intelligence and the dark triad traits of personality.

    K V Petrides;Philip A Vernon;Julie Aitken Schermer;Livia Veselka

  • Relationships between trait emotional intelligence and the Big Five in the Netherlands

    K.V. Petrides;P.A. Vernon;J.A. Schermer;L. Ligthart

  • Overlap between the general factor of personality and emotional intelligence: A meta-analysis.

    Dimitri van der Linden;Keri A. Pekaar;Arnold B. Bakker;Julie Aitken Schermer

  • A behavioral genetic investigation of humor styles and their correlations with the Big-5 personality dimensions

    Philip A. Vernon;Rod A. Martin;Julie Aitken Schermer;Ashley Mackie

  • Relations between humor styles and the Dark Triad traits of personality

    Livia Veselka;Julie Aitken Schermer;Rod A. Martin;Philip A. Vernon

  • Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health: Cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries

    Charles Adedayo Ogunbode;Charles Adedayo Ogunbode;Ståle Pallesen;Gisela Böhm;Rouven Doran

  • The Dark Triad and an expanded framework of personality

    Livia Veselka;Julie Aitken Schermer;Philip A. Vernon

  • Phenotypic and genetic associations between the big five and trait emotional intelligence.

    Philip A Vernon;Vanessa C Villani;Julie Aitken Schermer;KV Petrides

  • A behavioral genetic study of trait emotional intelligence.

    Philip A. Vernon;K. V. Petrides;Denis Bratko;Julie Aitken Schermer

  • A behavioral genetic study of the dark triad of personality and moral development.

    Jennifer Campbell;Julie Aitken Schermer;Vanessa C Villani;Brenda Nguyen

  • The Dark Triad and the self-presentation variables of socially desirable responding and self-monitoring

    Christopher Marcin Kowalski;Radosław Rogoza;Philip A. Vernon;Julie Aitken Schermer

  • The correlation between general intelligence (g), a general factor of personality (GFP), and social desirability

    Julie Aitken Schermer;Philip A. Vernon

  • Evidence for a Heritable General Factor of Personality in Two Studies

    Livia Veselka;Julie Aitken Schermer;KV Petrides;Philip Anthony Vernon

  • The Origins of Political Attitudes and Behaviours: An Analysis Using Twins

    Edward Bell;Julie Aitken Schermer;Philip A. Vernon

  • A general factor of personality: evidence from the HEXACO model and a measure of trait emotional intelligence.

    Livia Veselka;Julie Aitken Schermer;K V Petrides;Lynn F Cherkas

  • Beyond the Big Five: The Dark Triad and the Supernumerary Personality Inventory

    Livia Veselka;Julie Aitken Schermer;Philip A Vernon

  • A behavior genetic study of the connection between social values and personality

    Julie Aitken Schermer;Philip A. Vernon;Gregory Richard Maio;Kerry L. Jang

  • Dark triads, tetrads, tents, and cores: Why navigate (research) the jungle of dark personality models without a compass (criterion)?

    Christopher Marcin Kowalski;Radosław Rogoza;Donald H. Saklofske;Julie Aitken Schermer

  • Phenotypic, genetic, and environmental properties of the portrait values questionnaire.

    Julie Aitken Schermer;N. T. Feather;Gu Zhu;Nicholas G. Martin

  • A tale of two general factors of personality in relation to intelligence and validity measures

    Julie Aitken Schermer;Richard D. Goffin

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip A. Vernon
Philip A. Vernon University of Western Ontario
Konstantinos V. Petrides
Konstantinos V. Petrides University College London
Rod A. Martin
Rod A. Martin University of Western Ontario
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Michael T. Lynskey
Michael T. Lynskey King's College London
Richard D. Goffin
Richard D. Goffin University of Western Ontario
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Kerry L. Jang
Kerry L. Jang University of British Columbia
Donald H. Saklofske
Donald H. Saklofske University of Western Ontario
Andrew M. Johnson
Andrew M. Johnson University of Western Ontario

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