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Overview

Oliver P. John is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a focused contribution to several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Education, and Applied Psychology.

The researcher has extensively explored topics around Personality Traits and Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Mental Health Research Topics, Early Childhood Education and Development, and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

Oliver P. John's recent publications include the following works:

  • "The Big Five Inventory-2 in China: A Comprehensive Psychometric Evaluation in Four Diverse Samples" (2021, Assessment)
  • "A stable relationship between personality and academic performance from childhood through adolescence. An original study and replication in hundred-thousand-person samples" (2020, Journal of Personality)
  • "Slovak Adaptation of the Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Psychometric Properties and Initial Validation" (2020, Studia Psychologica)
  • "Validation française du Big Five Inventory à 10 items (BFI-10)" (2020, L Encéphale)
  • "Modelling the incremental value of personality facets: the domains-incremental facets-acquiescence bifactor showmodel" (2020, European Journal of Personality)

The scientist's frequent coauthors reflect established collaborations and include:

  • Christopher J. Soto
  • Ricardo Primi
  • Iris B. Mauss
  • Filip De Fruyt
  • Simon Calmar Andersen

Publishing activity appears regularly in several journals, with frequent venues being:

  • Emotion
  • L Encéphale
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Journal of Research in Personality

Best Publications

  • Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: implications for affect, relationships, and well-being.

    James J. Gross;Oliver P. John

  • The Big Five Trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives.

    Oliver P. John;Sanjay Srivastava

  • An introduction to the five-factor model and its applications.

    Robert R. McCrae;Oliver P. John

  • Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and conceptual issues.

    Oliver P. John;Laura P. Naumann;Christopher J. Soto

  • Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory in English and German

    Beatrice Rammstedt;Oliver P. John

  • Should we trust web-based studies? A comparative analysis of six preconceptions about internet questionnaires.

    Samuel D. Gosling;Simine Vazire;Sanjay Srivastava;Oliver P. John

  • Healthy and Unhealthy Emotion Regulation: Personality Processes, Individual Differences, and Life Span Development

    Oliver P. John;James J. Gross

  • The "Big Five" factor taxonomy: Dimensions of personality in the natural language and in questionnaires.

    Oliver P. John

  • Los Cinco Grandes across cultures and ethnic groups: multitrait multimethod analyses of the Big Five in Spanish and English.

    Verónica Benet-Martínez;Oliver P. John

  • Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 2nd ed.

    Oliver P. John;Richard W. Robins;Lawrence A. Pervin

  • Automatic Vigilance: The Attention-Grabbing Power of Negative Social Information

    Felicia Pratto;Oliver P. John

  • The next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power.

    Christopher J. Soto;Oliver P. John

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

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

  • Accuracy and bias in self-perception: Individual differences in self-enhancement and the role of narcissism.

    Oliver P. John;Richard W. Robins

  • 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

  • Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life.

    James J. Gross;Jane M. Richards;Oliver P. John

  • Egoistic and Moralistic Biases in Self-Perception: The Interplay of Self-Deceptive Styles With Basic Traits and Motives

    Delroy L. Paulhus;Oliver P. John

  • Who attains social status? Effects of personality and physical attractiveness in social groups.

    Cameron Anderson;Oliver P. John;Dacher Keltner;Ann M. Kring

  • Personality Dimensions in Nonhuman Animals: A Cross-Species Review

    Samuel D. Gosling;Oliver P. John

  • Positive emotion dispositions differentially associated with Big Five personality and attachment style

    Michelle N. Shiota;Dacher Keltner;Oliver P. John

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Christopher J. Soto
Christopher J. Soto Colby College
Richard W. Robins
Richard W. Robins University of California, Davis
Samuel D. Gosling
Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Gerald A. Mendelsohn
Gerald A. Mendelsohn University of California, Berkeley
Ricardo Primi
Ricardo Primi Universidade São Francisco
Beatrice Rammstedt
Beatrice Rammstedt Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Iris B. Mauss
Iris B. Mauss University of California, Berkeley
Lewis R. Goldberg
Lewis R. Goldberg Oregon Research Institute

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