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Paul D. Trapnell

Paul D. Trapnell

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Psychology

D-Index
30
Citations
14632
World Ranking
11258
National Ranking
781

Overview

Paul D. Trapnell is affiliated with the University of Winnipeg in Canada and specializes in the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The scientist's research primarily covers topics related to Personality Traits and Psychology, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, and Social and Intergroup Psychology.

Recent publications by Paul D. Trapnell include:

  • Sex drive among the Dark Tetrad, 2024, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Blunted startle reactivity in everyday sadism and psychopathy, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Making the Personal Political: Personal versus Group-Focused Rumination Following Sexual Harassment, 2023, Sex Roles
  • Screening for Dark Personalities, 2020, European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • Short Dark Tetrad, 2021, PsycTESTS Dataset

The venues where the scientist frequently publishes include:

  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • Scientific Reports
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Sex Roles

Frequent co-authors associated with Paul D. Trapnell's research are:

  • Delroy L. Paulhus
  • Erin E. Buckels
  • Daniel N. Jones
  • Lisa Sinclair
  • Laura Kinsman

Best Publications

  • Self-concept clarity: Measurement, personality correlates, and cultural boundaries.

    Jennifer D. Campbell;Paul D. Trapnell;Steven J. Heine;Ilana M. Katz

  • Private self-consciousness and the five-factor model of personality: distinguishing rumination from reflection.

    Paul D. Trapnell;Jennifer D. Campbell

  • Trolls just want to have fun

    Erin E. Buckels;Paul D. Trapnell;Delroy L. Paulhus

  • Extension of the Interpersonal Adjective Scales to include the Big Five dimensions of personality.

    Paul D. Trapnell;Jerry S. Wiggins

  • Psychometric and Geometric Characteristics of the Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scales (IAS-R).

    Jerry S. Wiggins;Paul Trapnell;Norman Phillips

  • National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures

    A. Terracciano;A. M. Abdel-Khalek;N. Ádám;L. Adamovová

  • Self-Concept Clarity : Measurement , Personality Correlates , and Cultural Boundaries

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  • Personality Structure: The Return of the Big Five

    Jerry S. Wiggins;Paul D. Trapnell

  • Development and Validation of a Five-Factor Sexual Satisfaction and Distress Scale for Women: The Sexual Satisfaction Scale for Women (SSS-W)

    Cindy Meston;Paul Trapnell

  • Interpreting personality profiles across cultures: bilingual, acculturation, and peer rating studies of Chinese undergraduates.

    Robert R. McCrae;Michelle S. M. Yik;Paul D. Trapnell;Michael H. Bond

  • A dyadic-interactional perspective on the five-factor model.

    Jerry S. Wiggins;Paul D. Trapnell

  • Circular reasoning about interpersonal behavior: Evidence concerning some untested assumptions underlying diagnostic classification.

    Jerry S. Wiggins;Norman Phillips;Paul Trapnell

  • Socially desirable responding and sexuality self‐reports

    Cindy M. Meston;Julia R. Heiman;Paul D. Trapnell;Delroy L. Paulhus

  • Birth Order Effects on Personality and Achievement Within Families

    Delroy L. Paulhus;Paul D. Trapnell;David Chen

  • Agentic and communal values: their scope and measurement.

    Paul D. Trapnell;Delroy L. Paulhus

  • Screening for Dark Personalities: The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4)

    Delroy L Paulhus;Erin E. Buckels;Paul D. Trapnell;Daniel Nelson Jones

  • Effects of Self-Presentation Strategies on Personality Profiles and their Structure

    Delroy L. Paulhus;M. Nadine Bruce;Paul D. Trapnell

  • Disgust facilitates outgroup dehumanization

    Erin E. Buckels;Paul D. Trapnell

  • Openness versus intellect: A lexical left turn

    Paul D. Trapnell

  • Ethnic and gender differences in sexuality: variations in sexual behavior between Asian and non-Asian university students.

    Cindy M. Meston;Paul D. Trapnell;Boris B. Gorzalka

  • The relationship among sexual attitudes, sexual fantasy, and religiosity.

    Tierney K. Ahrold;Melissa Farmer;Paul D. Trapnell;Cindy M. Meston

Frequent Co-Authors

Delroy L. Paulhus
Delroy L. Paulhus University of British Columbia
Cindy M. Meston
Cindy M. Meston The University of Texas at Austin
Jerry S. Wiggins
Jerry S. Wiggins University of British Columbia
Boris B. Gorzalka
Boris B. Gorzalka University of British Columbia
Julia R. Heiman
Julia R. Heiman Indiana University
Steven J. Heine
Steven J. Heine University of British Columbia
Darrin R. Lehman
Darrin R. Lehman University of British Columbia
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Michelle Yik
Michelle Yik Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Erik Lykke Mortensen
Erik Lykke Mortensen University of Copenhagen

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