Developing self-report Likert scales is an essential part of modern psychology. However, it is
hard for psychologists to remain apprised of best practices as methodological developments …

Extending interactionist principles and targeting situational specificity of trait–performance
linkages, trait activation theory (TAT) posits personality traits are expressed as valued work …

Technology now makes it possible to understand efficiently and at large scale how people
use language to reveal their everyday thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Written text has …

In this article, we provide a wide-ranging review of recent research on leader individual
differences. The review focuses specifically on the explosion of such research in the last …

Based on lexical studies, the HEXACO (honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion,
agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) model of personality has …

In teams, some combinations of people work together better than others. A large body of
literature with a rich history suggests that the configuration of team member attributes, called …

Major life events (MLEs) are studied in many different areas in psychology such as
personality development, clinical psychology, or posttraumatic growth. In all of these areas …

Nostalgia is a mixed emotion. Recent empirical research, however, has highlighted positive
effects of nostalgia, suggesting it is a predominantly positive emotion. When measured as an …

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic
and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health …

Complementary evidence from narrative literature reviews and meta-analyses leads to the
conclusion that much research suffers from a lack of attention to the context in which …