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76
Citations
44707
World Ranking
1687
National Ranking
996

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Bruno Klopfer Award, Society for Personality Assessment
  • 1968 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Lewis R. Goldberg is affiliated with the Oregon Research Institute in the United States. Their academic work is concentrated primarily within the field of psychology, with a significant focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and aspects of sociology and political science.

The scientist's research spans several main topics including personality traits and psychology, cognitive abilities and testing, personality disorders and psychopathology, identity, memory, and therapy, social and intergroup psychology, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Goldberg has multiple publications, notably in key venues such as The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences and the European Journal of Personality. The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences is the primary publication outlet, containing four of their works, while the European Journal of Personality includes one publication.

Their recent papers include:

  • Ubiquitous Personality-Trait Concepts in 13 Diverse and Isolated Languages: A Cluster-Classification Approach, 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • Personality Stability and Change over Time, 2020, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
  • John M. (Jack) Digman, 2020, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

Frequent coauthors in Goldberg's research network comprise Sarah E. Hampson, Joshua K Wood, and Michael Gurven. Collaboration has been particularly prominent with Sarah E. Hampson, with whom Goldberg has coauthored multiple works.

Among awards received, Lewis R. Goldberg was honored with the Bruno Klopfer Award from the Society for Personality Assessment in 2009. Earlier, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1968.

Best Publications

  • An alternative "description of personality": the big-five factor structure.

    Lewis R. Goldberg

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARKERS FOR THE BIG-FIVE FACTOR STRUCTURE

    Lewis R. Goldberg

  • The Structure of Phenotypic Personality Traits

    Lewis R. Goldberg

  • A broad-bandwidth, public domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models

    L. R. Goldberg

  • An alternative "description of personality": The Big-Five factor structure.

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  • The international personality item pool and the future of public-domain personality measures ☆

    Lewis R. Goldberg;John A. Johnson;Herbert W. Eber;Robert Hogan

  • The structure of phenotypic personality traits.

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  • The Power of Personality: The Comparative Validity of Personality Traits, Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Ability for Predicting Important Life Outcomes:

    Brent W. Roberts;Nathan R. Kuncel;Rebecca Shiner;Avshalom Caspi

  • Integration of the big five and circumplex approaches to trait structure.

    Willem K. B. Hofstee;Boele de Raad;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Simple models or simple processes? Some research on clinical judgments.

    Lewis R. Goldberg

  • THE STRUCTURE OF CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION BASED ON SEVEN MAJOR PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRES

    Brent W. Roberts;Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko;Stephen Stark;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Some determinants of factor structures from personality-trait descriptors.

    Dean Peabody;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Man versus model of man: A rationale, plus some evidence, for a method of improving on clinical inferences.

    Lewis R. Goldberg

  • 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

  • The Structure of Musical Preferences: A Five-Factor Model

    Peter J. Rentfrow;Lewis R. Goldberg;Daniel J. Levitin

  • Raters, ratees, and randomness in personality structure.

    Warren T. Norman;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • DIAGNOSTICIANS VS. DIAGNOSTIC SIGNS: THE DIAGNOSIS OF PSYCHOSIS VS. NEUROSIS FROM THE MMPI.

    Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Conceptions of states and traits: dimensional attributes with ideals as prototypes.

    William F. Chaplin;Oliver P. John;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Profiling the "pro-environmental individual": a personality perspective.

    Ezra M. Markowitz;Lewis R. Goldberg;Michael C. Ashton;Kibeom Lee

  • Implementing a five-factor personality inventory for use on the internet

    Tom Buchanan;John A. Johnson;Lewis R. Goldberg

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

    Gerard Saucier;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • A hierarchical analysis of 1,710 English personality-descriptive adjectives.

    Michael C. Ashton;Kibeom Lee;Lewis R. Goldberg

  • Doing it all Bass-Ackwards: The development of hierarchical factor structures from the top down

    Lewis R. Goldberg

  • A first large cohort study of personality trait stability over the 40 years between elementary school and midlife.

    Sarah E. Hampson;Lewis R. Goldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah E. Hampson
Sarah E. Hampson Oregon Research Institute
Michael C. Ashton
Michael C. Ashton Brock University
Gerard Saucier
Gerard Saucier University of Oregon
Kibeom Lee
Kibeom Lee University of Calgary
Oliver P. John
Oliver P. John University of California, Berkeley
Peter J. Rentfrow
Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge
Benjamin P. Chapman
Benjamin P. Chapman University of Rochester Medical Center
Daniel J. Levitin
Daniel J. Levitin McGill University
John E. Roberts
John E. Roberts University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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