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Brian Little
Brian R. Little is a personality psychologist known for free trait theory and Personal Projects Analysis, and for his TED talk viewed over 20 million times.
Conscientiousness
Conscientiousness: Big Five personality trait of being organized, responsible, and hardworking; six facets (industriousness, orderliness, self-discipline, and more); strongest Big Five predictor of job and academic performance.
Marvin Zuckerman
Marvin Zuckerman (1928–2018) was an American personality psychologist who codeveloped the Sensation Seeking Scale, defining sensation seeking, and was professor emeritus at the University of Delaware.
Nancy Segal
Nancy Segal is an American psychologist who studies twins, was assistant director of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, and teaches at California State University, Fullerton.
Self-handicapping
Self-handicapping: defensive strategy, introduced by Jones and Berglas (1978), of creating or claiming obstacles before performance so failure is blamed on the handicap, not ability; behavioral versus claimed forms, self-esteem motives, academic costs.
Thomas Curran (psychologist)
Thomas Curran is a psychologist at the London School of Economics known for research showing that perfectionism has risen sharply among college students since 1989.
W. Keith Campbell
W. Keith Campbell (born 1966) is an American social and personality psychologist at the University of Georgia known for research on grandiose narcissism and The Narcissism Epidemic.