Samuel Gosling

Predicting personality from patterns of behavior collected with smartphones

Clemens Stachl, Quay Au, Ramona Schoedel, Samuel D Gosling, Gabriella M Harari, Daniel Buschek, Sarah Theres Voelkel, Tobias Schuwerk, Michelle Oldemeier, Theresa Ullmann, Heinrich Hussmann, Bernd Bischl, Markus Buehner

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Smartphones enjoy high adoption rates around the globe. Rarely more than an arm's length away, these sensor-rich devices can easil..

Sensing Sociability: Individual Differences in Young Adults' Conversation, Calling, Texting, and App Use Behaviors in Daily Life

Gabriella M Harari, Sandrine R Mueller, Clemens Stachl, Rui Wang, Weichen Wang, Markus Buehner, Peter J Rentfrow, Andrew T Campbell, Samuel D Gosling

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Sociability as a disposition describes a tendency to affiliate with others (vs. be alone). Yet, we know relatively little about ho..

Associations between self-rated personality traits and automobile fatality rates across small geographic areas

D Wood, P Penmetsa, EK Adanu, PJ Rentfrow, PD Harms, SD Gosling, J Potter

Journal article  |  2020  |  Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

We explore how variation in fatal automobile crashes across small geographic areas is associated with geographic variation in self..

Personality Research and Assessment in the Era of Machine Learning

Clemens Stachl, Florian Pargent, Sven Hilbert, Gabriella M Harari, Ramona Schoedel, Sumer Vaid, Samuel D Gosling, Markus Buehner

Journal article  |  2020  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY

The increasing availability of high-dimensional, fine-grained data about human behaviour, gathered from mobile sensing studies and..

Personality trait predictors and mental well-being correlates of exercise frequency across the academic semester

Lara Kroencke, Gabriella M Harari, Marko Katana, Samuel D Gosling

Journal article  |  2019  |  SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

RATIONALE: Regular exercise is frequently recommended as a means of combating the negative effects of stress on mental health. But..

Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations

Rachid Laajaj, Karen Macours, Daniel Alejandro Pinzon Hernandez, Omar Arias, Samuel D Gosling, Jeff Potter, Marta Rubio-Codina, Renos Vakis

Journal article  |  2019  |  SCIENCE ADVANCES

Can personality traits be measured and interpreted reliably across the world? While the use of Big Five personality measures is in..

Reserved Northerners, Jovial Southerners, and Open Urbanites: Regional Personality Differences in Germany

Martin Obschonka, Michael Wyrwich, Michael Fritsch, Samuel D Gosling, P Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter

Journal article  |  2019  |  PSYCHOLOGISCHE RUNDSCHAU

The study and explanation of regional personality differences is a central research topic in geographical psychology. Such researc..

Special Section on Multimodal Understanding of Social, Affective, and Subjective Attributes

Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Miriam Redi, Mohammad Soleymani, Nicu Sebe, Shih-Fu Chang, Samuel Gosling

Journal article  |  2019  |  ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

Multimedia scientists have largely focused their research on the recognition of tangible properties of data such as objects and sc..

In the Shadow of Coal: How Large-Scale Industries Contributed to Present-Day Regional Differences in Personality and Well-Being

Martin Obschonka, Michael Stuetzer, Peter J Rentfrow, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Max Satchell, Rainer K Silbereisen, Jeff Potter, Samuel D Gosling

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Recent research has identified regional variation of personality traits within countries but we know little about the underlying d..

Agency culture, constitutional provisions and entrepreneurship: a cross-country analysis

Emanuela Carbonara, Enrico Santarelli, Martin Obschonka, Thu Tran Hien, Jeff Potter, Samuel D Gosling

Journal article  |  2018  |  INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE

Substantial and systematic cross-country variation in entrepreneurship rates has been found in various studies. We attempt to expl..