William Fleeson's research while affiliated with Wake Forest University and other places

... Comparing with control theory which relates to how we pursue goals, the self-determination theory is more focused on what and why of this process. In a similar vein, based on the self-regulation concept Heckhausen, Wrosch, and Fleeson (2001) argued that individuals normally become involved in restructuring goals or focusing others when an active goal seems unmet. From self-regulation concept people are considered controlling their psychological processes (i.e. ...

... In their review of perceived changes across time in self-evaluation, Peetz and Wilson (2008;p. 2092) concluded that "People tend to perceive themselves as steadily improving on many domains over the course of their life (Fleeson & Heckhausen, 1997;Ryff, 1991). " Although it has merit, the summary statement of Peetz and Wilson is somewhat misleading. ...

... Note, however, that our sample of observers included two different types of observers (i.e., supervisors and students), and analyses across these different rater sources (i.e., supervisor-rated personality variability predicting student-rated performance) yielded various significant effects (see Table 3), suggesting that effects may not be solely due to common rater biases (Podsakoff et al., 2003). Furthermore, recent experience sampling research has demonstrated significant agreement among different observers regarding others' personality states (Jayawickreme et al., 2023;Leikas & Lönnqvist, 2022), suggesting that other-ratings of personality states do not merely capture raters' own idiosyncratic perceptions but rather reflect actual observable behaviors. Although our overall conclusions were strengthened by a set of additional analyses that showed mostly similar results when we accounted for curvilinear effects of mean-level personality (cf., Jones et al., 2017), the main absence of cross-method effects does indicate a lack of robustness of the current findings. ...

... Taken together, evidence suggests that even those high in Honesty-Humility may sometimes lie when dishonesty is prosocial in the sense that it benefits others. As Fleeson et al. (2022) concluded in their recent review, "when the honest action was no longer the benevolent action, HH [Honesty-Humility] produced less honesty, suggesting that the honesty of high HH individuals may be only a side effect of benevolence" (p. 3). ...

... personality disorder (Miskewicz et al., 2022;Thielmann et al., 2014), and externalizing disorders such as oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder (Muris et al., 2022). A PsycINFO search indicated that since 2000, there have been over 2,700 citations to the HEXACO model, with the greatest number of citations in the past 5 years. ...

... Quirin et al. (2023) propose a setpoint model of social motivation in the context of personality research. They note that personality researchers are increasingly interested in the dynamics of personality (Jayawickreme et al., 2021;Quirin et al., 2020). However, while most theories of personality dynamics present general frameworks, dynamic models of personality that specify the causal relationships among process variables are scarce (cf. ...

... Future research could profitably investigate the use of this scale in populations for which momentary SCC might be particularly relevant. For example, some recent studies suggest that momentary disturbances in self-concept clarity might be important in understanding the dynamic patterns of some individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (Ellison, Levy et al., 2020;Mneimne et al., 2021), and yet these studies have used one-or two-item measurements of SCC. The M-SCCS might be a more reliable tool to explore these patterns, perhaps in combination with validated measures of momentary impulsivity (Tomko et al., 2014) or affective instability (Coifman et al., 2012). ...

... Many recent studies have focused on critically evaluating and assessing this theory (see for example: Graham et al., 2013;Gray & Keeney, 2015), and to infusing it with up-to-date research data. Morality is also exploited and studied in various ways: As an ideological premise and a distinctive difference between conservatives and progressives (Hannikainen et al., 2017;Jost et al., 2003;Lakoff, 2010;McAdams et al., 2008), as a normative predicate and individual difference (Dunn et al., 1995;Giammarco, 2016;Luke et al., 2021;Meindl et al., 2015), and as a main conflict resolution mechanism (Broeders et al., 2011;DeScioli & Kurzban, 2013;Opotow, 2004). ...

... Instead, state vocational interests seem to be-at least in parts-literally situational (Knogler et al., 2015). State interests appear to also reflect interpretations of and reactions to individuals' current situational conditions (Fleeson & Jayawickreme, 2021;Su et al., 2019), that might not be included in the global interest trait score. A similar conclusion was implied by our findings on the interest reactivity: The interplay between the situation and state interest can predict a relevant outcome. ...

... The similarities and differences between skills and traits may also have implications for understanding personality dynamics, as well as developmental potential and growth (Allport, 1961). Recent dynamic models of personality focus on identifying patterns of intra-individual variability across situations and time (e.g., Blum et al., 2018;Fleeson & Jayawickreme, 2021). From this perspective, someone's skill level represents their capability to express trait-relevant behavior in particular situations. ...