PJR Publications

Rentfrow, P. J. (2007). The geography of personality: The emergence, persistence, and expression of basic traits. Invited talk presented at the University of Cardiff, U.K. Rentfrow, P. J. (2007). The geography of personality: The emergence, persistence, and expression of basic traits. Invited talk presented at the University of Edinburgh, U.K. Rentfrow, P. J. (2007). The geography of personality: The emergence, persistence, and expression of basic traits. Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, Giessen, Germany.
Rentfrow, P. J. (2006). The Geography of Personality: Regional differences in Personality across the United States. Invited talk presented at the University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.

Rentfrow, P. J. (2006). The Geography of Personality: Regional differences in Personality across the United States. Invited talk presented at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.

Rentfrow, P. J., Jost, J. T., & Gosling, S. D. (2006). Regional personality differences predict voting patterns in U.S. Presidential elections. Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the European Association for Personality Psychology, Athens, Greece.

Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2005). To know what I listen to is to know who I am: Examining the information conveyed through music preferences. Paper presented at the Consumer Personality and Research Methods Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Rentfrow, P. J., Gosling, S. D., Vazire, S., & Naumann, L. P. (2005). Personality assessment in everyday life: Lessons from the lay person. Invited talk presented at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA.

Rentfrow, P. J., Jost, J. T., & Gosling, S. D. (2005). Regional personality differences predict voting patterns in U.S. Presidential elections. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Society of Political Psychology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Rentfrow, P. J. (2003). Message in a Ballad: Personality judgments based on music preferences. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Rentfrow, P. J. (2003). The do-re-mi’s of everyday life. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Universal City, CA.

Florida, R. & Rentfrow, P. J. (forthcoming). Place, Personality, and Well-Being. In K. Sheldon, T. Kashdan, and M. Steger (Eds.) Designing the Future of Positive Psychology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward. New York: Oxford University Press. [email me for preprint]

Rentfrow, P. J. & Dodorico, J. (in press). Music Preferences and Personality. In P. N. Juslin and J. Sloboda (Eds.) Handbook of Music and Emotion. New York: Oxford University Press. [email me for preprint] Rentfrow, P. J., Jost, J. T., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (in press). Statewide differences in personality predict voting patterns in 1996-2004 U.S. Presidential Elections. In J. T. Jost, A. C. Kay, and H. Thorisdottir (Eds.) Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification. New York: Oxford University Press. [email me for preprint]

Vazire, S., Naumann, L. P., Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (in press). Narcissus Reflected: Manifestations of Narcissism in Physical Appearance. Journal of Research in Personality. [email me for preprint] Rentfrow, P. J., Gosling, S. D. & Potter, J. (2008). A Theory of the Emergence, Persistence, and Expression of Geographic Variation in Personality Traits. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 339-369. pdf

Lange, R. & Rentfrow, P. J. (2007). Color and personality: Strong's Interest Inventory and Cattell's 16PF. North American Journal of Psychology, 9, 423-438.
Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2007). The content and validity of stereotypes about fans of 14 music genres. Psychology of Music, 35, 306-326. pdf Swann, W. B., Larsen-McClarty, K. & Rentfrow, P. J. (2007). Shelter from the storm? Men in precarious couples magnify their partners’ stress. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 24, 793-808. pdf Pennebaker, J.W., Paez, D., Deschamps, J.C., Rentfrow, J., Davis, M., Techio, E.M., Slawuta, P., Zlobina, A., & Zubieta, E. (2006). The social psychology of history: Defining the most important events of the last 10, 100, and 1000 years. Psicologia Politica, 32, 15-32. pdf Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2006). Message in a ballad: The role of music preferences in interpersonal perception. Psychological Science, 17, 236-242. pdf Houran, J., Lange, R., Rentfrow, P. J., & Bruckner, K. H. (2004). Do online matchmaking tests work? An assessment of preliminary evidence for a publicized ‘predictive model of marital success.’ North American Journal of Psychology, 6, 507-526. pdf Gosling, S. D., Rentfrow, P. J., & Swann, W. B. Jr. (2003). A very brief measure of the big-five personality domains. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 504-528. pdf Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2003). The do-re-mi’s of everyday life: The structure and personality correlates of music preferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1236-1256. pdf Swann, W. B. Jr., Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2003). The precarious couple effect: Verbally inhibited men + critical, disinhibited women = bad chemistry. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 1095-1106. pdf Swann, W. B. Jr., Rentfrow, P. J., & Guinn, J. (2003). Self-verification: The search for coherence. In M. Leary, and J. Tangney, (Eds.) Handbook of Self and Identity, (pp. 367-383). New York: Guilford press. pdf Campbell, S., Gibbs, B., Guinn, J., Josephs, R., Newman, M., Rentfrow, P. J., & Stone, L. (2002). A biased view of liberal bias: Comment on Redding. American Psychologist, 57, 297-298. pdf Swann, W. B. Jr., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2001). Blirtatiousness: Cognitive, behavioral, and physiological consequences of rapid responding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 1160-1175. pdf Brown, R. P., Charnsangavej, T., Keough, K. A., Newman, M. N., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2000). Putting the “affirm” into affirmative action: Preferential selection and academic performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 736–747. pdf