Birth cohort changes in extraversion: a cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1966–1993

By Jean M. Twenge. 2001

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

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Big Five personality development in adolescence and adulthood (2007, background): “For example, since the last five decades, U.S. citizens have revealed increases in Extraversion and decreases in Emotional Stability (Twenge, 2000, 2001), and whereas older cohorts changed slower in Emotional Stability and decreased in Extraversion younger cohorts changed faster in Emotional…”
Generational Increases in Agentic Self-evaluations among American College Students, 1966–2009 (2012, background): “Traits that have increased over the generations, such as narcissism and extraversion (Twenge, 2001b; Twenge & Foster, 2010), are related primarily to agentic self-views and unrelated to communal self-views (e.”
Personality profiles of cultures: aggregate personality traits. (2005, result): “The strong link between self-expression and E and the fact that much of the world is rapidly becoming postindustrial suggests the hypothesis that E should increase in the coming decades—a conclusion consistent with cohort differences documented by Twenge (2001).”
Development of personality in early and middle adulthood: set like plaster or persistent change? (2003, background): “Neuroticism (Twenge, 2000) and Extraversion (Twenge, 2001).”
Changes in the need for social approval, 1958–2001☆ (2007, background): “Recent research has found birth cohort changes in many diVerent traits and attitudes, including anxiety, extraversion, self-esteem, locus of control, and depressive symptoms (Klerman & Weissman, 1989; Twenge, 2000, 2001a; Twenge & Campbell, 2001; Twenge, Zhang, & Im, 2004).”
Environmental sustainability and national personality (2014, background): “It should be noted, however, that population differences in basic personality traits are not set in stone, and can change substantially over time as a result of cultural and economic changes, or selective migration (Rentfrow et al., 2008; Twenge, 2001).”
Birth Cohort Increases in Narcissistic Personality Traits Among American College Students, 1982–2009 (2010, background): “Traits related to narcissism have also increased (e.g., extraversion, self-esteem; Scollon & Diener, 2006; Twenge, 2001a; Twenge & Campbell, 2001).”
Age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, and birth cohort differences on the children's depression inventory: a meta-analysis. (2002, methodology): “Birth cohort is an effective proxy for the larger sociocultural environment (Caspi, 1987; Stewart & Healy, 1989; Twenge, 2001b, 2002).”
Millennials’ (Lack of) Attitude Problem: An Empirical Examination of Generational Effects on Work Attitudes (2010, background): “Neuroticism has increased from Silents to Gen Xers (Twenge, 2000); self-esteem (Twenge & Campbell, 2001), extraversion (Twenge, 2001) and external locus of control (Twenge, Zhang, & Im, 2004) have increased from Boomers to Gen Xers; and narcissism has increased from Gen Xers to Millennials (Twenge,…”