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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William Revelle is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a specialization in experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, management science and operations research, and social psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics including:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

William Revelle has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits," 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • "Thinking thrice about sum scores, and then some more about measurement and analysis," 2022, Behavior Research Methods
  • "Bottom Up Construction of a Personality Taxonomy," 2020, European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • "Using the International Cognitive Ability Resource as an open source tool to explore individual differences in cognitive ability," 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
  • "Exploring the persome: The power of the item in understanding personality structure," 2020, Personality and Individual Differences

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • David Condon
  • Elizabeth M. Dworak
  • René Mõttus
  • Dustin Wood
  • Giulio Costantini

William Revelle publishes regularly in these venues:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • European Journal of Personality
  • European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • Psychological Methods
  • Collabra Psychology

The scientist has been recognized as a fellow of key professional organizations including the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2011 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1995.

Best Publications

  • psych: Procedures for Personality and Psychological Research

    William R Revelle

  • Coefficients Alpha, Beta, Omega, and the glb: Comments on Sijtsma

    William Revelle;Richard E. Zinbarg

  • CRONBACH'S α, REVELLE'S β, AND MCDONALD'S ωH : THEIR RELATIONS WITH EACH OTHER AND TWO ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF RELIABILITY

    Richard E. Zinbarg;William Revelle;Iftah Yovel;Wen-Wen Li

  • Personality, motivation, and performance: A theory of the relationship between individual differences and information processing.

    Michael S. Humphreys;William Revelle

  • Individual differences in the phase and amplitude of the human circadian temperature rhythm: with an emphasis on morningness-eveningness.

    Erin K. Baehr;William Revelle;Charmane I. Eastman

  • Very Simple Structure: An Alternative Procedure For Estimating The Optimal Number Of Interpretable Factors.

    William Revelle;Thomas Rocklin

  • The interactive effect of personality, time of day, and caffeine: A test of the arousal model.

    William Revelle;Michael S. Humphreys;Lisa Simon;Kirby Gilliland

  • Hierarchical Cluster Analysis And The Internal Structure Of Tests

    William Revelle

  • The international cognitive ability resource: Development and initial validation of a public-domain measure

    David M. Condon;William Revelle

  • Estimating Generalizability to a Latent Variable Common to All of a Scale's Indicators: A Comparison of Estimators for ωh

    Richard E. Zinbarg;Iftah Yovel;William Revelle;Roderick P. McDonald

  • Reliability from α to ω: A tutorial.

    William Revelle;David M Condon

  • Survey and behavioral measurements of interpersonal trust

    Anthony M. Evans;William Revelle

  • Activity matters: Understanding student interest in school science

    Su Swarat;Andrew Ortony;William Revelle

  • The measurement of extroversion: A comparison of the Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire

    Thomas Rocklin;William Revelle

  • The implications of arousal effects for the study of affect and memory.

    William Revelle;Debra A. Loftus

  • Affect and Proto-Affect in Effective Functioning

    Andrew Ortony;Donald A. Norman;William Revelle

  • The General Factor of Personality: A General Critique

    William Revelle;Joshua Wilt

  • Literacy, cognitive function, and health: results of the LitCog study.

    Michael S. Wolf;Laura M. Curtis;Elizabeth A. H. Wilson;William Revelle

  • A robust data-driven approach identifies four personality types across four large data sets

    Martin Gerlach;Beatrice Farb;William Revelle;Luís A. Nunes Amaral

  • Affective Synchrony: Individual Differences in Mixed Emotions

    Eshkol Rafaeli;Gregory M. Rogers;William Revelle

  • Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits:

    Rene Mottus;Rene Mottus;Dustin Wood;David Condon;Mitja D. Back

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua Wilt
Joshua Wilt Case Western Reserve University
Richard E. Zinbarg
Richard E. Zinbarg Northwestern University
Michael S. Humphreys
Michael S. Humphreys University of Queensland
Andrew Ortony
Andrew Ortony Northwestern University
René Mõttus
René Mõttus University of Edinburgh
Luke D. Smillie
Luke D. Smillie University of Melbourne
Susan Mineka
Susan Mineka Northwestern University
Matthias Ziegler
Matthias Ziegler Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
J. Michael Bailey
J. Michael Bailey Northwestern University
Denise C. Park
Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas

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