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Institution
Pennsylvania State University, DuBoisCurrent Position
Professor of Psychology Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Personality Psychology from Johns Hopkins University, 1981
Research Interests
 | Ethics/Morality |
| Evolution/Genetics |
| Gender |
| Internet/Cyberpsychology |
| Personality |
| Research Methods/Assessment |
| Self/Identity |
Online Studies
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John A. Johnson
Department of Psychology
172 Smeal Building, College Place
Pennsylvania State University, DuBois
DuBois, Pennsylvania 15801
United States
Home Page
Phone: (814) 375-4774
Fax: (814) 375-4784
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My research has been aimed at improving the validity of self-report personality tests by testing alternative models of the cognitive, motivational, and social dynamics underlying the act of responding to individual personality items. Factors I have studied include (1) properties of the test items (item content, wording, ambiguity, subtlety); (2) characteristics of the test-taker (cognitive abilities, social skills, personality traits); and (3) social demand characteristics of the testing context. I have been particularly interested in specifying how these three factors affect the validity of personality tests during personnel selection.
I am also interested in methods for improving the validity and pragmatic utility of computer-generated, narrative personality reports for single individuals.
In addition to my research aimed at improving personality test validity, I have conducted research in several specific content areas. These include
1. the impact of personality on educational development, vocational choice, and job performance;
2. personality characteristics related to empathy, deviance, and creativity;
3. relationship between personality and human evolution; and
4. psychological factors influencing the conduct of scientific research.Awards
1990-1991 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellow
University of Bielefeld, Germany
1997 Recipient, Provost's Collaborative and Curricular Innovations Special Recognition Program Award
1998 First place, STAR Project Award, Jack P. Royer Center for Learning and Academic Technologies
2000 The Penn State Teaching Fellow:
The Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching
 Books:
- Gosling, S., & Johnson, J. A. (Eds.) (in press). Advanced internet methods for behavioral research. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Hogan, R., Johnson, J. A., & Briggs, S. R. (1997). Handbook of personality psychology. San Diego: Academic Press.
Journal Articles:
 Buchanan, T., Johnson, J. A., & Goldberg, L. R. (2005). Implementing a five-factor personality inventory for use on the Internet. European Journal of Personality Assessment 21, 116-128.
- Cawley, M. J. III, Martin, J. E., & Johnson, J. A. (2000). A virtues approach to personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 28, 997-1013.
- Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. G. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 84-96.
- Johnson, J. A. (2006). Ego-syntonicity in responses to items in the California Psychological Inventory. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 73-83.
- Johnson, J. A. (2005). Ascertaining the validity of individual protocols from web-based personality inventories. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 103-129.
- Johnson, J. A. (2004). The impact of item characteristics on item and scale validity. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 39, 273-302.
- Johnson, J. A. (2000). Predicting observers' ratings of the Big Five from the CPI, HPI, and NEO-PI-R: A comparative validity study. European Journal of Personality, 14. 1-19.
- Johnson, J. A. (1999). Persons in situations: Distinguishing new wine from old wine in new bottles. In I. Van Mechelen & B. De Raad (Eds.), Personality and situations [Special Issue]. European Journal of Personality, 13, 443-453.
- Johnson, J. A. (1997). Seven social performance scales for the California Psychological Inventory. Human Performance, 10, 1-30.
- Johnson, J. A. (1994). Clarification of factor five with the help of the AB5C model. In B. De Raad & G. L. Van Heck (Eds.), The fifth of the big five [Special Issue]. European Journal of Personality, 8, 311-334.
- Johnson, J. A., & Ostendorf, F. (1993). Clarification of the five-factor model with the Abridged Big Five Dimensional Circumplex. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 563-576.
Other Publications:
- Johnson, J. A. (1997). Units of analysis for the description and explanation of psychology. In R. Hogan, J. A. Johnson, & S. R. Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology (pp. 73-93).
- Johnson, J. A. (1994). Multimethod replication of the AB5C model of personality traits. In B. De Raad, W. K. B. Hofstee, & G. L. M. Van Heck, Personality psychology in Europe, Volume 5 (pp. 42-49). Tilburg, The Netherlands: Tilburg University Press.
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