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Overview

Luke D. Smillie is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and neuroscience. Their work primarily covers personality traits, mental health, and behavioral health interventions.

Their research spans multiple fields, including:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, their work touches on several subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Social Psychology

The main topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Their scholarly output includes papers published in several journals with frequent appearances in:

  • European Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Personality
  • Personality Science
  • Autism Research
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Predicting psychological and subjective well-being from personality: A meta-analysis," 2020, Psychological Bulletin
  • "Evaluating the Big Five as an organizing framework for commonly used psychological trait scales," 2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Personality neuroscience: An emerging field with bright prospects," 2022, Personality Science
  • "Why do people seek information? The role of personality traits and situation perception," 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Decoding personality trait measures from resting EEG: An exploratory report," 2020, Cortex

Their collaborative work involves regular coauthorship with researchers such as:

  • Hayley Jach
  • Nicholas Poh-Jie Tan
  • Emily Spackman
  • Simon M. Laham
  • Antonio Y. Hardan

Best Publications

  • Predicting psychological and subjective well-being from personality: A meta-analysis.

    Jeromy Anglim;Sharon Horwood;Luke D Smillie;Rosario J Marrero

  • The New Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: Implications for Personality Measurement

    Luke D. Smillie;Alan D. Pickering;Chris J. Jackson

  • Conceptual distinctions among Carver and White’s (1994) BAS scales: A reward-reactivity versus trait impulsivity perspective

    Luke D. Smillie;Chris J. Jackson;Len I. Dalgleish

  • The Role of Interpersonal Traits in Social Decision Making: Exploring Sources of Behavioral Heterogeneity in Economic Games

    Kun Zhao;Luke D. Smillie

  • A confirmatory factor analysis of the Mini-IPIP five-factor model personality scale

    Andrew J. Cooper;Luke D. Smillie;Philip J. Corr

  • Do extraverts get more bang for the buck? Refining the affective-reactivity hypothesis of extraversion.

    Luke D. Smillie;Andrew J. Cooper;Joshua Wilt;William Revelle

  • Unique associations between Big Five personality aspects and multiple dimensions of well-being

    Jessie Sun;Scott Barry Kaufman;Luke D Smillie

  • What is Reinforcement Sensitivity? Neuroscience Paradigms for Approach-avoidance Process Theories of Personality

    Luke D. Smillie

  • Benefits of all work and no play: the relationship between neuroticism and performance as a function of resource allocation.

    Luke D. Smillie;Gillian B. Yeo;Adrian F. Furnham;Chris J. Jackson

  • Functional impulsivity and reinforcement sensitivity theory.

    Luke D. Smillie;Chris J. Jackson

  • Extraversion and Reward Processing

    Luke D. Smillie

  • Sub-threshold autism traits: The role of trait emotional intelligence and cognitive flexibility.

    Elif Gökçen;Konstantinos V. Petrides;Kristelle Hudry;Norah Frederickson

  • Individual differences in reward–prediction–error: extraversion and feedback-related negativity

    Luke D. Smillie;Andrew J. Cooper;Alan D. Pickering

  • A new measure for the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory: psychometric criteria and genetic validation

    Martin Reuter;Andrew J. Cooper;Luke D. Smillie;Sebastian Markett

  • Individual differences in reward prediction error: Contrasting relations between feedback-related negativity and trait measures of reward sensitivity, impulsivity and extraversion

    Andrew J. Cooper;Éilish Duke;Alan D. Pickering;Luke D. Smillie

  • Trait Extraversion and Dopamine Function

    Jan Wacker;Luke D. Smillie

  • Openness and other Big Five traits in relation to dispositional mixed emotions

    Kate A. Barford;Luke D. Smillie

  • Personality and defensive reactions: fear, trait anxiety, and threat magnification.

    Adam M Perkins;Andrew Cooper;Maura Abdelall;Luke D Smillie

  • Appetitive motivation predicts the majority of personality and an ability measure: a comparison of BAS measures and a re-evaluation of the importance of RST

    Chris J. Jackson;Luke D. Smillie

  • Prosocial personality traits differentially predict egalitarianism, generosity, and reciprocity in economic games

    Kun Zhao;Eamonn Ferguson;Luke D. Smillie

  • Individual differences in good manners rather than compassion predict fair allocations of wealth in the dictator game.

    Kun Zhao;Eamonn Ferguson;Luke D. Smillie

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris J. Jackson
Chris J. Jackson University of New South Wales
Alan Pickering
Alan Pickering Goldsmiths University of London
Eamonn Ferguson
Eamonn Ferguson University of Nottingham
Joshua Wilt
Joshua Wilt Case Western Reserve University
William Revelle
William Revelle Northwestern University
Jan Wacker
Jan Wacker Universität Hamburg
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau
Susan L. Rossell
Susan L. Rossell Swinburne University of Technology
Philip J. Corr
Philip J. Corr City, University of London
Colin G. DeYoung
Colin G. DeYoung University of Minnesota

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