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Peter J. Rentfrow | |
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| Born | 4 June 1976  |
| Education | University of Texas at Austin |
| Occupation | Academic, psychologist |
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Peter Jason Rentfrow is an American psychologist who is a professor of personality and individual differences in the Psychology Department at Cambridge University.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Rentfrow was born on 4 June 1976. He studied at the University of Texas, first receiving an undergraduate degree in Psychology in 1998 and then a PhD in 2004[2] under the supervision of Samuel D. Gosling, William B. Swann, and James W. Pennebaker.[3] He moved to the University of Cambridge in 2005.[2]
Research
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Rentfrow describes his research as examining "links between basic personality traits and common social psychological processes". He has studied how people's musical preferences and where they live influences their personality.[5]
In 2009 he collaborated with BBC Lab UK to develop an online personality test that was featured in Child of our Time.[6] 400,000 people participated and in 2015, the results were used to develop another test that revealed where people would be happiest living in the UK.[7][4] In 2016, he worked with the Sutton Trust and Robert de Vries on a report titled A Winning Personality which examined the influence of children's personalities and their family background on future career prospects. "Conscientiousness, self-discipline, efficiency and organisation" were found to be associated with higher incomes and the children of professionals were found to be more extroverted.[8]
Rentfrow has collaborated with computer scientist Cecilia Mascolo to develop smartphone applications that measuring behavior and psychological states unobtrusively.[2][9]
As of 2020[update] his publications had been cited 12,000 times and he had an h-index of 40.[2]
Selected publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Rentfrow, Peter J., ed. Geographical Psychology: Exploring the Interaction of Environment and Behavior. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2014.[10]
- Rentfrow, Peter J., and Daniel J. Levitin, eds.Foundations in Music Psychology: Theory and Research. 2019. ISBN 9781433815393[10]
References
[edit]- ↑ Rentfrow, Dr Jason (April 5, 2012). "Dr Jason Rentfrow". www.psychol.cam.ac.uk.
- 1 2 3 4 Rentfrow, Peter J. (2020). "Rentfrow, Peter". Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences: 4415–4419. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1971. ISBN 978-3-319-24610-9.
- ↑ Peter Jason Rentfrow (2004). Message in a ballad: personality judgements [sic] based on music preferences (Thesis). William B Swann, Samuel D Gosling (Supervisors). University of Texas at Austin. OCLC 69019693.
- 1 2 Rentfrow, Peter J.; Jokela, Markus; Lamb, Michael E. (24 March 2015). "Regional Personality Differences in Great Britain". PLOS ONE. 10 (3) e0122245. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1022245R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122245. PMC 4372610. PMID 25803819.
- ↑ "Peter Jason Rentfrow". rentfrow.socialpsychology.org. Social Psychology Network.
- ↑ "The Big Personality Test". Broadcast. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ "Study finds Scots are getting along just fine with other people". The Herald. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ Weale, Sally (14 January 2016). "Extrovert character traits shaped by background, study finds". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ Lathia, Neal; Pejovic, Veljko; Rachuri, Kiran K.; Mascolo, Cecilia; Musolesi, Mirco; Rentfrow, Peter J. (July 2013). "Smartphones for Large-Scale Behavior Change Interventions". IEEE Pervasive Computing. 12 (3): 66–73. Bibcode:2013IPCom..12c..66L. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2013.56. ISSN 1536-1268. S2CID 14134567.
- 1 2 Rentfrow, Peter J (September 27, 2014). Geographical psychology: exploring the interaction of environment and behavior. American Psychological Association. ISBN 978-1-4338-1539-3. OCLC 1137359444.
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