Publications and CV
Chris Soto’s complete CV is available here (last updated September, 2022).
Publications
Soto, C. J., Napolitano, C. M., Sewell, M. N., Yoon, H. J., & Roberts, B. W. (in press). Going beyond traits: Social, emotional, and behavioral skills matter for adolescents’ success. Social Psychological and Personality Science. PDF
Zhang, B., Li, Y. M., Li, J., Luo, J., Ye, Y., Yin, L., Chen, Z., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (in press). The Big Five Inventory-2 in China: A comprehensive psychometric evaluation in four diverse samples. Assessment. PDF
Soto, C. J., Napolitano, C. M., Sewell, M. N., Yoon, H. J., & Roberts, B. W. (2022). An integrative framework for conceptualizing and assessing social, emotional, and behavioral skills: The BESSI. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123, 192-222. PDF
Denissen, J. J. A., Soto, C. J., Geenen, R., John, O. P., & van Aken, M. A. G. (2022). Incorporating prosocial vs. antisocial trait content in Big Five measurement: Lessons from the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2). Journal of Research in Personality, 96, 104147. PDF
Føllesdal, H., & Soto, C. J. (2022). The Norwegian adaptation of the Big Five Inventory–2. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 858920. PDF
Lechner, C. M., Knopf, T., Napolitano, C. M., Rammstedt, B., Roberts, B. W., Soto, C. J., & Spengler, M. (2022). The Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI): Psychometric properties of a German-language adaptation, temporal stabilities of the skills, and associations with personality and intelligence. Journal of Intelligence, 10, 63. PDF
Mishkevich, A. M., Shchebetenko, S. A., Kalugin, A. Y., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2022). The short and extra-short forms of the Russian version of the Big Five Inventory-2: BFI-2-S and BFI-2-XS. Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal, 43, 95-108. PDF
Sewell, M. N., Soto, C. J., Napolitano, C. M., Yoon, H. J., & Roberts, B. W. (2022). Survey data of social, emotional, and behavioral skills among seven independent samples. Data in Brief, 40, 107792. PDF
Stewart, R. D., Mõttus, R., Seeboth, A., Soto, C. J., & Johnson, W. (2022). The finer details? The predictability of life outcomes from Big Five domains, facets, and nuances. Journal of Personality, 90, 167-182. PDF
Soto, C. J. (2021). Do links between personality and life outcomes generalize? Testing the robustness of trait-outcome associations across gender, age, ethnicity, and analytic approaches. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 118-130. PDF
Soto, C. J., Napolitano, C. M., & Roberts, B. W. (2021). Taking skills seriously: Toward an integrative model and agenda for social, emotional, and behavioral skills. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30, 26-33. PDF
Atherton, O. E., Chung, J. M., Harris, K., Rohrer, J. M., Condon, D. M., Cheung, F., Vazire, S., Lucas, R. E., Donnellan, M. B., Mroczek, D. K., Soto, C. J., Antonoplis, S., Damian, R. I., Funder, D. C., Srivastava, S., Fraley, R. C., Jach, H., Roberts, B. W., Smillie, L. D., Sun, J., Tackett, J. L., Weston, S. J., Harden, K. P., & Corker, K. S. (2021). Why has personality psychology played an outsized role in the credibility revolution? Personality Science, 2, 1-21. PDF
Cemalcilar, Z., Baruh, L., Kezer, M., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2021). Testing the BFI-2 in a non-WEIRD community sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111087. PDF
Danner, D., Lechner, C. M., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2021). Modeling the incremental value of personality facets: the domains-incremental facets-acquiescence bifactor model (DIFAB). European Journal of Personality, 35, 67-84. PDF
Hang, Y., Soto, C. J., Speyer, L. G., Haring, L., Lee, B., Ostendorf, F., & Mottus, R. (2021). Age differences in the personality hierarchy: A replication across the life span. Journal of Research in Personality, 93, 104121. PDF
Kalugin, A., Shchebetenko, S., Mishkevich, A., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2021). Psychometric properties of the Russian version of the Big Five Inventory–2. Psychology Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 18, 7-33. PDF
Napolitano, C. M., Sewell, M. N., Yoon, H. J., Soto, C. J., & Roberts, B. W. (2021). Social, emotional, and behavioral skills: An integrative model of the skills associated with success during adolescence and across the life span. Frontiers in Education, 6, 679561. PDF
Shiner, R. L., Soto, C. J., & De Fruyt, F. (2021). Personality assessment of children and adolescents. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 3, 113-137. PDF
Vedel, A. Wellnitz, K. B., Ludeke, S., Soto, C. J., John, O. P., & Andersen, S. C. (2021). Development and validation of the Danish Big Five Inventory-2: Domain- and facet-level structure, construct validity, and reliability. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 37, 42-51. PDF
Xu, X., Soto, C. J., & Plaks, J. E. (2021). Beyond Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness: Testing links between lower-level personality traits and American political orientation. Journal of Personality, 89, 754-773. PDF
Soto, C. J. (2020). Commentary: Four confessions from a Big Fiver about a six-dimensional model of personality traits. European Journal of Personality, 34, 549-550. PDF
Soto, C. J., & Jackson, J. J. (2020). Five-factor model of personality. In D. S. Dunn (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. PDF
Anderson, C., Sharps, D. L., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2020). People with disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative) do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 22780-22786.
Denissen, J. J. A., Geenen, R., Soto, C. J., John, O. P., & van Aken, M. A. G. (2020). The Big Five Inventory–2 (BFI-2): Replication of psychometric properties of the Dutch adaptation and first evidence for the discriminant predictive validity of the facet scales. Journal of Personality Assessment, 3, 309-324. PDF
Halama, P., Kohút, M., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2020). Slovak adaptation of the Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Psychometric properties and initial validation. Studia Psychologica, 62, 74-87. PDF
Hřebíčková, M., Jelínek, M., Květon, P., Benkovič, A., Botek, M., Sudzina, F., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2020). Five-factor questionnaire BFI-2: Hierarchical model with 15 subscales. Ceskoslovenska Psychologie, 64, 437-460. PDF
Kohút, M., Halama, P., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2020). Psychometric properties of Slovak short and extra-short forms of Big Five Inventory–2 (BFI-2). Československá psychologie, 64, 550-563. PDF
Rammstedt, B., Danner, D., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2020). Validation of the short and extra-short forms of the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) and their German adaptations. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 36, 149-161. PDF
Shchebetenko, S., Kalugin, A. Y., Mishkevich, A. M., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2020). Measurement invariance and sex and age differences of the Big Five Inventory–2: Evidence from the Russian version. Assessment, 27, 472-486. PDF
Soto, C. J. (2019). How replicable are links between personality traits and consequential life outcomes? The Life Outcomes Of Personality Replication Project. Psychological Science, 30, 711-727. PDF
Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2019). Optimizing the length, width, and balance of a personality scale: How do internal characteristics affect external validity? Psychological Assessment, 31, 444-459. PDF
Danner, D., Rammstedt, B., Bluemke, M., Lechner, C., Berres, S., Knopf, T., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2019). The Big Five Inventory–2: Validating a personality inventory to capture 5 personality domains and 15 facets. Diagnostica, 65, 121-132. PDF
Malka, A., Lelkes, Y., & Soto, C. J. (2019). Are cultural and economic conservatism positively correlated? A large-scale cross-national test. British Journal of Political Science, 49, 1045-1069. PDF
Soto, C. J. (2018). Big Five personality traits. In M. H. Bornstein, M. E. Arterberry, K. L. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of lifespan human development (pp. 240-241). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. PDF
Soto, C. J., & Sheets, E. S. (2018). Commentary: Moving toward an integrative understanding of personality disorder: It’s about time. European Journal of Personality, 32, 587-588. PDF
Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2017). The next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, 117-143. PDF
Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2017). Short and extra-short forms of the Big Five Inventory–2: The BFI-2-S and BFI-2-XS. Journal of Research in Personality, 68, 69-81. PDF
Mottus, R., Soto, C. J., & Slobodskaya, H. R. (2017). Are all kids alike? The magnitude of individual differences in personality characteristics tends to increase from early childhood to early adolescence. European Journal of Personality, 31, 313-328. PDF
Soto, C. J. (2016). The Little Six personality dimensions from early childhood to early adulthood: Mean-level age and gender differences in parents’ reports. Journal of Personality, 84, 409-422. PDF
Soto, C. J., Kronauer, A., & Liang, J. K. (2016). Five-factor model of personality. In S. K. Whitbourne (Ed.), Encyclopedia of adulthood and aging (Vol. 2, pp. 506-510). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. PDF
Malka, A., Osborne, D., Soto, C. J., Greaves, L., Sibley, C. G., & Lelkes, Y. (2016). Binding moral foundations and the narrowing of ideological conflict to the traditional morality domain. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1243-1257. PDF
Soto, C. J. (2015). Is happiness good for your personality? Concurrent and prospective relations of the Big Five with subjective well-being. Journal of Personality, 83, 45-55. PDF
Soto, C. J., & Tackett, J. L. (2015). Personality traits in childhood and adolescence: Structure, development, and outcomes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 358-362. PDF
Malka, A., & Soto, C. J. (2015). Rigidity of the economic right? Menu-independent and menu-dependent influences of psychological dispositions on political attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 137-142. PDF
Soto, C. J. & John, O. P. (2014). Traits in transition: The structure of parent-reported personality traits from early childhood to early adulthood. Journal of Personality, 82, 182-199. PDF
Malka, A., & Soto, C. J. (2014). How encompassing is the effect of negativity bias on political conservatism? Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 37, 320-321. PDF
Malka, A., Soto, C. J., Inzlicht, M., & Lelkes, Y. (2014). Do needs for security and certainty predict cultural and economic conservatism? A cross-national analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 1031-1051. PDF
Soto, C. J. & Luhmann, M. (2013). Who can buy happiness? Personality traits moderate the effects of stable income differences and income fluctuations on life satisfaction. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 46-53. PDF
Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2012). Development of Big-Five domains and facets in adulthood: Mean-level age trends and broadly versus narrowly acting mechanisms. Journal of Personality, 80, 881-914. PDF
Soto, C. J., John, O. P., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2011). Age differences in personality traits from 10 to 65: Big-Five domains and facets in a large cross-sectional sample. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 330-348. PDF
Malka, A., & Soto, C. J. (2011). The conflicting influences of religiosity on attitude toward torture. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1091-1103. PDF
Malka, A., Soto, C. J., Cohen, A. B., & Miller, D. T. (2011). Religiosity and social welfare: Competing influences of cultural conservatism and prosocial value orientation. Journal of Personality, 79, 763-792. PDF
Orth, U., Robins, R. W., & Soto, C. J. (2010). Tracking the trajectory of shame, guilt, and pride across the life span. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 1061-1071. PDF
Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2009). Ten facet scales for the Big Five Inventory: Convergence with NEO PI-R facets, self-peer agreement, and discriminant validity. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 84-90. PDF
Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2009). Using the California Psychological Inventory to assess the Big Five personality domains: A hierarchical approach. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 25-38. PDF
John, O. P., Naumann, L., & Soto, C. J. (2008). Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and conceptual issues. In O. P. John, R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (3rd ed., pp. 114-158). New York, NY: Guilford. PDF
Soto, C. J., John, O. P., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2008). The developmental psychometrics of Big Five self-reports: Acquiescence, factor structure, coherence, and differentiation from ages 10 to 20. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 718-737. PDF
John, O. P., & Soto, C. J. (2007). The importance of being valid: Reliability and the process of construct validation. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in personality psychology (pp. 461-494). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. PDF
Helson, R., Soto, C. J., & Cate, R. A. (2006). From young adulthood through the middle ages. In D. K. Mroczek & T. D. Little (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 337-352). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. PDF
Helson, R., & Soto, C. J. (2005). Up and down in middle age: Monotonic and nonmonotonic changes in roles, status, and personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 194-204.
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