M Brent Donnellan

Biographic Data

ID154658
NAMEM Brent Donnellan
GIVEN NAMESM Brent
FAMILY NAMEDonnellan
SIGNATUREDONNELLAN M B
AFFILIATIONSMichigan State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS120
TOTAL CITATIONS1399
AUTHOR COUNT118
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX18

  • Friends’ Personality Similarity and Its Association With Friendship Well-Being

    Open AccessHyewon Yang, Atea Nelson et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2026

    Homophily in psychological characteristics is common, yet recent evidence suggests that personality trait similarity among friends may be less common. Moreover, little is known about whether and how personality similarity—and perceptions of this similarity—among friends shapes how they feel about their relationships in group settings. In a study of 369 quads of friends ( N = 1,476), we found personality similarity in most Big Five traits (except …

  • Development of an Inconsistent Responding Scale for the Big Five Inventory-2

    Jared R Ruchensky, John F Edens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality Assessment2025

    The Big Five Inventory − 2 (BFI-2) is a commonly used self-report assessment of normal personality trait domains (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Negative Emotionality, Open-Mindedness) and facets. To date, however, no direct measures of response distortion have been developed for it to identify potentially invalid responses. Such distortions (e.g., careless or random responding) can adversely impact data quality. The current stud…

  • Notes from the Underground

    Open AccessNicholas S Holtzman, Jeffrey Klibert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2025References: 36

    OBJECTIVE: Self-focused language use has been frequently assumed to reflect narcissism; however, research indicates that the association between first-person singular pronouns (i.e., "I-talk") and grandiose narcissism is negligible. METHOD: To extend this literature, we progressively identify vulnerable narcissism and rumination as positive correlates of I-talk in five studies (valid Ns = 211, 475, 1253, 289, 1113). RESULTS: The first study revea…

  • Does Perceived Similarity Between Present and Future Self Predict Well-Being? A Reanalysis and Replication of

    Open AccessRebekka Weidmann, Alisar Alabdullah et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2024

    Reiff and colleagues found that perceived similarity between one’s present and future self is positively associated with life satisfaction 10 years later, using a difference-score approach to operationalize similarity. This study further evaluated the similarity effect by reproducing the original longitudinal association with a difference-score method, by using more sophisticated analyses (i.e., polynomial regression and response surface analyses…

  • Optimism, relationship quality, and problem solving discussions

    Open AccessKatelin E Leahy, Deborah A Kashy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2023References: 45

    Problem solving is a necessary part of all successful relationships. The current study examined how naturally occurring day-to-day problem solving discussions were related to daily reports of relationship quality. In addition, we investigated whether optimism was associated with the nature and occurrence of these problems and moderated the association between problem solving discussions and relationship quality. Multilevel modeling was applied to…

  • A direct comparison of the temporal stability and criterion validities of experiential and retrospective global measures of subjective well-being

    Open AccessNathan W Hudson, Richard E Lucas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2022References: 46

  • Developmental Trajectories of Adult Romantic Attachment

    Open AccessRachel E Dinero, M Brent Donnellan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2022Cited by: 1References: 33

    The present study evaluates longitudinal trajectories of adult romantic attachment during adulthood using latent growth curve modeling. We also tested how observed family interactions were related to trajectories of attachment-related anxiety and avoidance from ages 25 to 31 years (on average). Stability coefficients for attachment variables across 6 years were around .50. Growth modeling results suggested that people tend to become less anxious …

  • Introduction to the Special Issue

    Open AccessRichard E Lucas, M Brent DonnellanARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2021

  • Evaluating evidence for a global mindset factor across multiple ability domains

    Open AccessKendra M Lewis, M Brent Donnellan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2021References: 40

  • Genetic influences on the interactionist model of socioeconomic development

    Open AccessM Brent Donnellan, MONICA J MARTIN et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2021Cited by: 2References: 3

    Genetic and environmental factors account for variability in a range of developmental outcomes, including socioeconomic status (SES). The challenge is to find ways to incorporate genetic information based on studies using biologically related family members (i.e., studies not involving twins). To address this issue, we computed polygenic scores associated with educational attainment (Lee et al., 2018) for the Family Transitions Project (e.g., R. …

  • Socioeconomic status, parenting investments, and negative personality traits over time and across generations

    Open AccessMonica J Martins, MONICA J MARTIN et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2021Cited by: 3

    The current investigation tested predictions from the interactionist model (IM) of socioeconomic influences on the development of negative personality traits with respect to feelings of alienation and low well-being. The model tested proposed that lower family socioeconomic status would lead to fewer parenting and material investments in the next generation adolescent, which in turn would be associated with higher levels of adolescent negative pe…

  • Testing prospective effects in longitudinal research

    Open AccessUli Orth, David A Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2021Cited by: 101

    In virtually all areas of psychology, the question of whether a particular construct has a prospective effect on another is of fundamental importance. For decades, the cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) has been the model of choice for addressing this question. However, CLPMs have recently been critiqued, and numerous alternative models have been proposed. Using the association between low self-esteem and depression as a case study, we examined the …

  • A direct comparison of the day reconstruction method (DRM) and the experience sampling method (ESM)

    Open AccessRichard E Lucas, Carol Wallsworth et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2021Cited by: 10

    The day reconstruction method (DRM) is an approach to measuring well-being that is designed to approximate the rich data that can be obtained from intensive repeated measures designs like those used in the experience sampling method (ESM). Although some preliminary tests of the validity of the DRM have been conducted, these typically focus on agreement between the 2 methods at very broad levels, rather than focusing on whether the 2 methods provi…

  • Relationship science and the credibility revolution

    Open AccessW J Chopik, Christopher R Chartier et al.ARTICLEPersonal Relationships2020

    In the past 10 years, the field of relationship science—like many other fields—has been exposed to dramatic changes in how scientists approach the research process. Relationship science has been at the forefront of many recent changes in the field, whether it be high profile replication attempts or broader discussions about how to increase rigor and reproducibility. A major goal of this special issue was to provide an opportunity for relationship…

  • Registered Reports With Developmental and Secondary Data

    Open AccessMoin Syed, M Brent DonnellanARTICLEEmerging Adulthood2020

    Registered reports are a relatively new type of journal article format in which the decision to publish an article is based on sound conceptualization, methods, and planned analyses rather than the specific nature of the results. Registered reports are becoming increasingly instituted in journals across the sciences but mostly in experimental contexts. Relatively few of these journals pertain directly to developmental research with adolescents, e…

  • A multi-method investigation of the personality correlates of digital aggression

    Open AccessMikayla Kim, Shaunna L Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2020Cited by: 2References: 38

  • Positive parenting, effortful control, and developmental outcomes across early childhood

    Open AccessTricia K Neppl, Shinyoung Jeon et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2020Cited by: 8References: 11

    The current study evaluated bidirectional associations between mother and father positive parenting and child effortful control. Data were drawn from 220 families when children were 3, 4, 5, and 6 years old. Parenting and effortful control were assessed when the child was 3, 4, and 5 years old. These variables were used to statistically predict child externalizing and school performance assessed when the child was 6 years old. The study used rand…

  • The healthy personality from a basic trait perspective

    Wiebke Bleidorn, Christopher J Hopwood et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2020Cited by: 3

    What basic personality traits characterize the psychologically healthy individual? The purpose of this article was to address this question by generating an expert-consensus model of the healthy person in the context of the 30 facets (and 5 domains) of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992) system of traits. In a first set of studies, we found that the healthy personality can be described, with a high level of agreement, in …

  • Are we happier with others? An investigation of the links between spending time with others and subjective well-being

    Open AccessNathan W Hudson, Richard E Lucas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2020

    Previous research suggests that having close relationships is a fundamental human need that, when fulfilled, is positively associated with subjective well-being. Recently, however, scholars have argued that actually interacting with one's closest partners may be psychologically taxing (e.g., because of pressures to provide support, care, and empathy). In the present research, we tested (a) how experiential affect varied as a function of which per…

  • Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests

    Justin F Landy, Miaolei Jia et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2020Cited by: 9References: 14

    To what extent are research results influenced by subjective decisions that scientists make as they design studies? Fifteen research teams independently designed studies to answer five original research questions related to moral judgments, negotiations, and implicit cognition. Participants from 2 separate large samples (total N > 15,000) were then randomly assigned to complete 1 version of each study. Effect sizes varied dramatically across diff…

  • Five-factor personality domains and job performance

    Open AccessYimin He, M Brent Donnellan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2019Cited by: 2References: 55

  • Depression, negative emotionality, and self-referential language

    Allison Mary Tackman, David A Sbarra et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2019Cited by: 14

    Depressive symptomatology is manifested in greater first-person singular pronoun use (i.e., I-talk), but when and for whom this effect is most apparent, and the extent to which it is specific to depression or part of a broader association between negative emotionality and I-talk, remains unclear. Using pooled data from N = 4,754 participants from 6 labs across 2 countries, we examined, in a preregistered analysis, how the depression-I-talk effect…

  • Linguistic Markers of Grandiose Narcissism

    Open AccessNicholas S Holtzman, Allison Mary Tackman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2019Cited by: 7References: 36

    Narcissism is unrelated to using first-person singular pronouns. Whether narcissism is linked to other language use remains unclear. We aimed to identify linguistic markers of narcissism. We applied the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to texts ( k = 15; N = 4,941). The strongest positive correlates were using words related to sports, second-person pronouns, and swear words. The strongest negative correlates were using anxiety/fear words, tentat…

  • Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being

    Open AccessEd Diener, Richard E Lucas et al.ARTICLECollabra2018

    Subjective well-being (SWB) is an extremely active area of research with about 170,000 articles and books published on the topic in the past 15 years. Methodological and theoretical advances have been notable in this period of time, with the increasing use of longitudinal and experimental designs allowing for a greater understanding of the predictors and outcomes that relate to SWB, along with the process that underlie these associations. In addi…

  • Making replication mainstream

    Open AccessRolf A Zwaan, Alexander Etz et al.ARTICLEBehavioral and Brain Sciences2018

    Many philosophers of science and methodologists have argued that the ability to repeat studies and obtain similar results is an essential component of science. A finding is elevated from single observation to scientific evidence when the procedures that were used to obtain it can be reproduced and the finding itself can be replicated. Recent replication attempts show that some high profile results – most notably in psychology, but in many other d…