Personality psychology as a truly behavioural science

By R. Furr. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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On doing relevant and rigorous experiments: Review and recommendations (2018, background): “However, behavioral scientists oftentimes conduct “hypothetical studies” that do not elicit actual behaviors (like vignettes, self- reports, questionnaires, hypothetical choice scenarios, see, e.g., Baumeister, Vohs, & Funder, 2007; Furr, 2009).”
Social interactions in daily life (2018, background): “397) whereas others have critiqued the use of current studies as far from studying actual behavior (e.g., Funder, 2006; Furr, 2009).”
Using Smartphones to Collect Behavioral Data in Psychological Science: Opportunities, Practical Considerations, and Challenges (2016, unknown): “In doing so, these methods allow researchers to address some of the methodological shortcomings of retrospective self-reports and studies of behavior in artificial laboratory contexts (Baumeister et al., 2007; Funder, 2006; Furr, 2009; Paulhus & Vazire, 2007).”
Properties of persons and situations related to overall and distinctive personality-behavior congruence (2012, background): “While data derived from direct observations of behavior is generally preferable (Furr, 2009), the impracticality of gathering multiple observer reports of 67 behaviors from multiple time points in a participant’s daily life necessitated the use of self-reports in this study.”
Character: The Prospects for a Personality-Based Perspective on Morality (2014, background): “Methods focusing on these links – including self-reports of cognitions, emotions and behavior, experience-sampling methodologies (ESM), and behavioral observation (Furr, 2009) – can help researchers achieve breakthroughs in understanding character.”
Doing the right thing: Measuring wellbeing for public policy (2011, background): “ESM has a number of advantages (Furr, 2009; Scollon, et al., 2007).”
Principles of Situation Research: Towards a Better Understanding of Psychological Situations (2015, methodology): “In contrast, psychology has had fair success in providing principles for describing and understanding persons, most notably summarized in our cumulative knowledge of personality (e.g. Funder, 2001) and behaviour (e.g. Furr, 2009).”
What Drives Adult Personality Development? A Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence (2014, result): “Behavioural observations (for an overview, see Furr, 2009), indirect/implicit tests (Back, Schmukle, & Egloff, 2009) and other’s reports (Vazire, 2010) might be useful for those future research directions, as they can lead to divergent conclusions (e.g. Jackson et al., 2009; Watson & Humrichouse,…”
A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences (2012, unknown): “…of failing to examine actual behavior, relying instead on hypothetical or retrospective self-reports of behavior (Baumeister, Vohs, & Funder, 2007; Furr, 2009); behavioral residue left on Facebook provides a compelling source of measurable behavior traces (Graham, Sandy, & Gosling, 2011; Webb,…”
Eyes as windows to the soul: Gazing behavior is related to personality (2012, background): “Thus, personality psychology can advance its knowledge on behavior (Fleeson & Noftle, 2008a; Furr, 2009).”
Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures (2020, background): “Consequently, there must be a distinction between instances of behaviour (Furr, 2009), such as watching TV, laughing, scratching ones nose, drinking tea, talking, and then again personality states, which are clearly located in the nomological net of the corresponding personality trait.”
A Closer Look at First Sight: Social Relations Lens Model Analysis of Personality and Interpersonal Attraction at Zero Acquaintance (2011, background): “These results contribute a significant amount of descriptive data regarding the influence of personality on aspects of actual appearance and behaviour—data which is often neglected in personality research (Back & Egloff, 2009; Baumeister, Vohs, & Funder, 2007; Furr, 2009).”