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Christopher Soto

@cjsotomatic.bsky.social
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Personality psychologist at Colby College. I study the structure, assessment, development, and outcomes of personality traits and socio-emotional skills.

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Christopher Soto @cjsotomatic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1/2. New paper in press in American Psychologist! Our Cumulative Practice Model proposes a pathway to intentional personality change: developing social, emotional, and behavioral skills through cycles of deliberate practice and feedback, without necessarily changing basic traits.
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Christopher Soto @cjsotomatic.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
1/5 New paper! How do adolescents' personality traits and skills change across a school year? And how are these changes linked with academics, social relationships, and well-being? New paper led by Christopher Napolitano in press at EJP. Brief highlights in the thread below...
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Michael Inzlicht @handle.invalid · 18/12/2024
Stereotype threat: a once-dominant idea in social psychology that shaped how we think about identity and performance. But what happens when the evidence crumbles? A deep dive into the failed replications, the myths, and what it all means. Read my latest essay: open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
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Revisiting Stereotype Threat
A Reckoning for Social Psychology
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
So excited to share our new paper! We wondered whether misalignment between how youth think they are capable of acting (social, emotional, behavioral skills) and how they typically act (personality traits) matters for life outcomes. If you’re curious too, check out the preprint!
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Christopher Soto @cjsotomatic.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
1/ New paper! How do personality traits (like the Big Five) and skills (like social engagement and emotional resilience) shape success? What happens when traits and skills don't match up with each other? Led by @whitneyringwald.bsky.social, accepted at the European Journal of Personality.
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Christopher Soto @cjsotomatic.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
How are the Big Five personality traits like skills? How are they different? The slides from my keynote address at the 2024 World Conference on Personality are available at osf.io/tyez7/
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10/01/2024
New blog post in which I discuss measurement invariance from a causal perspective. Come for the amateurish featured image (who needs photoshop anyway), stay for fancy Pooh as figure label. Bonus: You'll finally understand the different levels of invariance (I hope). www.the100.ci/2024/01/10/a...
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A casual but causal take on measurement invariance
Testing for measurement invariance is one of those things where researchers roughly fall into two categories. Either they consider it an incomprehensible and arcane practice that only nerds could ever...
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