Oliver John
Title
Professor of Psychology
Department
Dept of Psychology
Research Group
Email
Phone
510-642-2178
Fax
510 642-5293
Research Expertise and Interest
research methods, personality, measurement, emotion regulation, personality structure, personality development, traits, Big Five model, individual differences, emotion expression, self-concept, accuracy, bias, self-knowledge, personality assessment
In the News
August 31, 2020
Being a selfish jerk doesn’t get you ahead, research finds
The evidence is in: Nice guys and gals don’t finish last, and being a selfish jerk doesn’t get you ahead.
That’s the clear conclusion from research that tracked disagreeable people—those with selfish, combative, manipulative personalities—from college or graduate school to where they landed in their careers about 14 years later.