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Overview

Samuel D. Gosling is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans several areas within psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on personality traits and psychology, mental health, cultural differences, and the influence of technology on behavior. Their work also touches on social and intergroup psychology, behavioral health, and the effects of COVID-19 on mental health.

Gosling has contributed extensively to several main fields of study, including psychology and social sciences. Within these, their work is distributed across subfields such as clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, and applied psychology.

Their recent scholarship includes research articles published in well-established academic venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science" (2021), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Predicting personality from patterns of behavior collected with smartphones" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Personality Research and Assessment in the Era of Machine Learning" (2020), published in European Journal of Personality
  • "Physical topography is associated with human personality" (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and Their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial-Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality" (2021), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science

Gosling frequently publishes in several academic venues, including:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Collaboration forms a significant part of Gosling's research activities. They have worked repeatedly with coauthors such as Jeff Potter, Peter J. Rentfrow, Gabriella M. Harari, Martin Obschonka, and Jochen E. Gebauer.

Best Publications

  • A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains

    Samuel D. Gosling;Peter J. Rentfrow;William B. Swann

  • Amazon's Mechanical Turk A New Source of Inexpensive, Yet High-Quality, Data?

    Michael D. Buhrmester;Tracy Kwang;Samuel D. Gosling

  • 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

  • The do re mi's of everyday life: The structure and personality correlates of music preferences.

    Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling

  • From mice to men: what can we learn about personality from animal research?

    Samuel D. Gosling

  • A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences

    Robert E. Wilson;Samuel D. Gosling;Lindsay T. Graham

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

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

  • Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not Self-Idealization

    Mitja D. Back;Juliane M. Stopfer;Simine Vazire;Sam Gaddis

  • The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind

    Dana R. Carney;John T. Jost;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • 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

  • Global self-esteem across the life span.

    Richard W. Robins;Kali H. Trzesniewski;Jessica L. Tracy;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines.

    Michal Kosinski;Sandra C. Matz;Samuel D. Gosling;Vesselin Popov

  • Ideology: Its Resurgence in Social, Personality, and Political Psychology:

    John T. Jost;Brian A. Nosek;Samuel D. Gosling

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

    Samuel D. Gosling;Oliver P. John

  • Comparing the Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients across distributions and sample sizes: A tutorial using simulations and empirical data.

    Joost C. F. de Winter;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • A room with a cue: personality judgments based on offices and bedrooms.

    Samuel D. Gosling;Sei Jin Ko;Thomas Mannarelli;Margaret E. Morris

  • Personality in its natural habitat: manifestations and implicit folk theories of personality in daily life.

    Matthias R. Mehl;Samuel D. Gosling;James W. Pennebaker

  • Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information

    Samuel D. Gosling;Adam A Augustine;Simine Vazire;Nicholas Holtzman

  • An Evaluation of Amazon's Mechanical Turk, Its Rapid Rise, and Its Effective Use.

    Michael D Buhrmester;Sanaz Talaifar;Samuel D Gosling;Samuel D Gosling

  • Age and Gender Differences in Self-Esteem—A Cross-Cultural Window

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Ruben C. Arslan;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • Are Needs to Manage Uncertainty and Threat Associated With Political Conservatism or Ideological Extremity

    John T. Jost;Jaime L. Napier;Hulda Thorisdottir;Samuel D. Gosling

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Potter
Jeff Potter Brown University
Peter J. Rentfrow
Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge
Wiebke Bleidorn
Wiebke Bleidorn University of Zurich
Simine Vazire
Simine Vazire University of Melbourne
Jochen E. Gebauer
Jochen E. Gebauer University of Mannheim
Oliver P. John
Oliver P. John University of California, Berkeley
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Richard W. Robins
Richard W. Robins University of California, Davis
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Rainer K. Silbereisen Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Steven J. Schapiro
Steven J. Schapiro The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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