articlePsychological ScienceApr 5, 2019Closed access

How Replicable Are Links Between Personality Traits and Consequential Life Outcomes? The Life Outcomes of Personality Replication Project

Colby College

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Abstract

The Big Five personality traits have been linked to dozens of life outcomes. However, metascientific research has raised questions about the replicability of behavioral science. The Life Outcomes of Personality Replication (LOOPR) Project was therefore conducted to estimate the replicability of the personality-outcome literature. Specifically, I conducted preregistered, high-powered (median N = 1,504) replications of 78 previously published trait-outcome associations. Overall, 87% of the replication attempts were statistically significant in the expected direction. The replication effects were typically 77% as strong as the corresponding original effects, which represents a significant decline in effect size.…

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  • Psychology
  • Replication (statistics)
  • Personality
  • Big Five personality traits
  • Clinical psychology
  • Personality Assessment Inventory
  • Applied psychology
  • Developmental psychology
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