August Nilsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5862930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | August Nilsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | August |
| FAMILY NAME | Nilsson |
| SIGNATURE | NILSSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2416-3755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A comparative “report card” wellbeing assessment of 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study
When evaluating how countries are faring, there is a widespread tendency to rely on single metrics or indices, whether objective (e.g., GDP) or subjective (e.g., life evaluation). However, flourishing is multidimensional, and societies invariably do better in some ways and less so in others (even if some places get more things “right” than others), so any comprehensive assessment must be multifaceted. We demonstrate this by evaluating 22 countrie…
The Language-Based Assessment Model Library: Open Model Sharing for Independent Validation and Broader Applications
Language-based assessments (LBAs), quantitative estimates of scientific constructs based on language, have advanced methods in the psychological and social sciences for more than a decade. LBAs based on individuals’ prompted descriptions analyzed with large language models to produce scores of their psychological states and traits have shown strong convergence with the corresponding rating scales ( r > .80) and have often surpassed rating scales …
Swedish Well-Being: The Rising Importance of Age Among Demographic, Personality, and Social Relationship Factors
The main demographic and psychological correlates of Well-Being (WB) are well-established, but have not yet been assessed in the Swedish population–regularly ranked among the world’s top five ranked WB nations–based on large, nationally representative data. Using 2023 Global Flourishing Study data ( N = 15,068), this paper analyzes Swedish WB across three domains: demography (e.g., gender, age, and income), individual personality traits (e.g., Bi…
Automatic implicit motive codings are at least as accurate as humans’ and 99% faster
Implicit motives, nonconscious needs that influence individuals' behaviors and shape their emotions, have been part of personality research for nearly a century but differ from personality traits. The implicit motive assessment is very resource-intensive, involving expert coding of individuals' written stories about ambiguous pictures, and has hampered implicit motive research. Using large language models and machine learning techniques, we aimed…
Course design as a stronger predictor of student evaluation of quality and student engagement than teacher ratings
Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) has indicated that course design is at least as important as teachers’ performance for student-rated perceived quality and student engagement. Our data analysis of more than 6000 SETs confirms this. Two hierarchical multiple regression models revealed that course design significantly predicts perceived quality more strongly than teachers, and that course design significantly predicts student engage…
Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight
Discrepancies in views of the Self are suggested to be negatively related to well-being (Higgins, 1987). In the present study, we used a novel concept, Personality Estimation Discrepancy (PED), to test this classic idea. PED is defined as the computed difference between how one view oneself (Self-Perceived Personality) and a standard Big Five test (IPIP-NEO-30). In a pre-registered ( osf.io ) UK online study ( N = 297; M age = 37, SD = 14) we ana…
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Know Thyself! Predicting Subjective Well-Being from personality estimation discrepancy and self-insight
Discrepancies in views of the Self are suggested to be negatively related to well-being (Higgins, 1987). In the present study, we used a novel concept, Personality Estimation Discrepancy (PED), to test this classic idea. PED is defined as the computed difference between how one view oneself (Self-Perceived Personality) and a standard Big Five test (IPIP-NEO-30). In a pre-registered ( osf.io ) UK online study ( N = 297; M age = 37, SD = 14) we ana…
Course design as a stronger predictor of student evaluation of quality and student engagement than teacher ratings
Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) has indicated that course design is at least as important as teachers’ performance for student-rated perceived quality and student engagement. Our data analysis of more than 6000 SETs confirms this. Two hierarchical multiple regression models revealed that course design significantly predicts perceived quality more strongly than teachers, and that course design significantly predicts student engage…
Automatic implicit motive codings are at least as accurate as humans’ and 99% faster
Implicit motives, nonconscious needs that influence individuals' behaviors and shape their emotions, have been part of personality research for nearly a century but differ from personality traits. The implicit motive assessment is very resource-intensive, involving expert coding of individuals' written stories about ambiguous pictures, and has hampered implicit motive research. Using large language models and machine learning techniques, we aimed…
A comparative “report card” wellbeing assessment of 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study
When evaluating how countries are faring, there is a widespread tendency to rely on single metrics or indices, whether objective (e.g., GDP) or subjective (e.g., life evaluation). However, flourishing is multidimensional, and societies invariably do better in some ways and less so in others (even if some places get more things “right” than others), so any comprehensive assessment must be multifaceted. We demonstrate this by evaluating 22 countrie…
The Language-Based Assessment Model Library: Open Model Sharing for Independent Validation and Broader Applications
Language-based assessments (LBAs), quantitative estimates of scientific constructs based on language, have advanced methods in the psychological and social sciences for more than a decade. LBAs based on individuals’ prompted descriptions analyzed with large language models to produce scores of their psychological states and traits have shown strong convergence with the corresponding rating scales ( r > .80) and have often surpassed rating scales …
Swedish Well-Being: The Rising Importance of Age Among Demographic, Personality, and Social Relationship Factors
The main demographic and psychological correlates of Well-Being (WB) are well-established, but have not yet been assessed in the Swedish population–regularly ranked among the world’s top five ranked WB nations–based on large, nationally representative data. Using 2023 Global Flourishing Study data ( N = 15,068), this paper analyzes Swedish WB across three domains: demography (e.g., gender, age, and income), individual personality traits (e.g., Bi…
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Subjective well-being (2 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (1 works) · Alternative five model of personality (1 works) · Balance (ability) (1 works) · Behavioural sciences (1 works) · Big Five personality traits (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works)