Patrick Durkee

Ultimately, I hope this can be a starting point for more explicit discussion about personality measurement

01.04.2025 16:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I give several recommendations for improving measurand-measurement alignment in personality research — most of which hinge on making our goals and assumptions explicit instead of implicit

01.04.2025 16:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But if we change our measurement procedure to better reflect the data-generating process of personality patterns by explicitly working situations into measurement (eg experience sampling, lab-based situations, low-fidelity simulations), we can be more reliably capture differences in GENERATORS

01.04.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I made some simple simulations to see how well we might expect typical inventory style measurement to recover individual diffs in generators and patterns.

Turns out, we can’t expect to recover GENERATOR differences reliably without very strong assumptions (which I think are unlikely)

01.04.2025 16:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

These are different measurands, so we should have different measurement procedures for recovering each. But most personality research relies on a one-size-fits-all measurement procedure: decontextualized personality inventories.

How well can we expect this to recover the different measurands?

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GENERATORS are the psychological mechanisms that generate behavior in tandem with situations (specifically inter individual diffs in their functional parameters), while PATTERNS are the manifest behavioral tendencies that arise from interactions between generators and the situations

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Basically, I think my confusion stems from the fact that there are multiple conceptualizations of personality in the literature, and different conceptualization actually imply different theoretical measurement targets (measurands). I identify two broad classes of measurands: patterns and generators

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Measuring personality Traits:Simulations Exploring (Mis)Alignment between methods and measurands Measuring personality traits requires that measurement methods align with intended measurands. There are two broad classes of personality trait measur…

I’ve been confused about what personality is and what personality inventories are trying measure, so I wrote a paper about it:

01.04.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How hard is cognitive science?

🎬📽🍿 Video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdK...

📖 Paper version: psyarxiv.com/k79nv/

Summary in #PaperThread below 🧵 1/n

16.02.2025 17:30 — 👍 93    🔁 22    💬 6    📌 3

Contemporary perspectives on personality This chapter summarizes the lexical approach to personality that led to the currently dominant Big Five and HEXACO personality taxonomies.

The third chapter reviews the lexical approach to personality that led to the currently dominant models of personality: Big Five and HEXACO

Feedback appreciated!

13.02.2025 18:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Biri is a student supported by @omovalleyresearchproject.org.

08.02.2025 15:08 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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Past Perspectives on Personality This chapter covers some ancient and historical perspectives on personality with emphasis on their shortcomings as largely non-empirical attempts at understanding and describing human personality.

The second chapter reviews some historical, non-empirical personality perspectives (e.g., humourist, freudian, adlerian), highlighting their flaws and setting up the focus on more modern data-driven approaches for the rest of the course.

Feedback welcome!

27.01.2025 22:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Social cognition ppl: Is there a review/chapter on automatic social cognition that summarizes the current state of knowledge, correcting for findings that don’t replicate?

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Anyone like open educational resources? 😅

16.01.2025 03:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

discord?

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Foundational Frameworks This chapter covers foundational frameworks for tackling research questions in the social sciences --- such as Tinbergen's Four Questions and Marr's Levels of Analysis --- with special application to ...

The first chapter covers frameworks that I think are essential for guiding psychological research—often overlooked at the undergrad level. It sets the stage for examining human personality from ultimate and proximate perspectives across levels of analysis.

Any and all feedback welcome!

14.01.2025 18:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m working on OER chapters for my personality psych class at CSU Fresno. This semester, I'm planning to post a new chapter to Merlot each week as the class progresses. I'd really appreciate any ideas for improving them!

Since it's OER, you can remix and reuse as you please.

14.01.2025 18:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Decided it might be time to stop just lurking and engage a little more this year...

So, hey Bluesky! Looking forward to hearing and sharing thoughts about evolutionary human sciences, status hierarchies, personality, causal inference, formal theory development in psychology, teaching, and R here.

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