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Brent Roberts

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Brent Roberts
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forConscientiousness
Narcissism
Awards1994 J. S. Tanaka Dissertation Award
2007 Diener Award in Personality Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Scientific career
FieldsSocial psychology
Personality psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Tulsa
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
ThesisA Longitudinal Study of the Reciprocal Relation Between Women's Personality and Occupational Experience (1994)
Doctoral advisorRavenna Helson

Brent Walter Roberts is an American social and personality psychologist who is professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is known for his research on personality traits, especially conscientiousness[1] and narcissism.[2][3] He was the president of the Association for Research in Personality, and was named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2016 and 2017.[4] In 2014 he presented the Paul B. Baltes Lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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  1. ^ Baer, Drake (2014-04-30). "This Personality Trait Predicts Success". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  2. ^ Roll, Nick (2017-10-13). "Research says college students no more narcissistic than previous generations at that age". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  3. ^ Jarrett, Christian (2017-11-15). "Millennials are narcissistic? The evidence is not so simple". BBC Future. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  4. ^ "Brent W. Roberts". www.psychology.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
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