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Paul T. Costa
Professor
Chief, Laboratory of Personality and Cognition
Academic Degrees
PHD, MA
Departmental Affiliation
Mental Health
Departmental Address
NIH Biomedical Research Center 251 Bayview Blvd.
Suite 100, Room 04B335 Baltimore, MD 21224
Phone: 410 558 8220
Fax: 410 558 8316
Keywords

Personality, Assessment, Revised NEO Personality Inventory; Five-Factor Model, Personality Disorders,

Longitudinal Studies, Personality Plasticity,

Honors and Awards

Elected to Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology.

President, Division on Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics, Division 5 of the APA.

Arthur Staats Award Winner Address on Unifying Psychology at the 112th Annual APA Convention, Title of Lecture: FFM and the FFT:

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Committee on Twins Study

Distinguished Contribution Award, Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging, APA)

Elected President of Association for Research in Personality

NIH Director’s Award

President, International Society for the Study of Individual Differences

Who’s Who in the World

American Men and Women of Science

Elected to Academy of Behavioral Medicine and Research

Fellow, Division 5 (Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics), American Psychological Association

Selected Publications

322. Widiger, T., Costa, P.T., Jr., Samuel, D.: Assessment of Maladaptive Personality Traits. In: Strack, S. (Ed)): Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality. New York, Springer Publishing Co, 2006, pp 311-335.

323. McCrae, R.R., Terracciano, A., Costa, P.T., Ozer, D.J.: From types to typological thinking: A reply to Asendorpf. Eur. J. Pers., 20: 49-51, 2006.

324. Costa, P.T. and McCrae, R.R.: Age changes in personality and their origins: Comment on Roberts, Walton, and Viechtbauer (2006). Psychol. Bull., 132: 26-28, 2006.

325. Terracciano, A., Costa, P.T., Jr., & McCrae, R.R.: Personality plasticity after age 30. Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull., 32: 999-1009, 2006.

326. Costa, P.T., Jr: Commentary on Trull: Just do it: Replace Axis II with a diagnostic system based on the Five-Factor Model of personality [FFM]. In Widiger, T.A., Simonsen, E., Sirovatka, P.J., & Regier, D.A. (Eds.): Dimensional models of personality disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Publishing, 2006, pp. 195-198.

327. Matthews, G., Emo, A., Funke, G., Zeidner, M., Roberts R., Costa, P., & Schulze, R.: Emotional Intelligence, Personality, and Task-induced Stress. J of Exp. Psychology: Applied, 12(2): 96-107, 2006.

328. McCrae, R.R. and Costa, P.T., Jr.: Perspectives de la théorie des cinq facteurs (TCF) : traits et culture (A five-factor theory perspective on traits and culture). Psychologie française 51: 227-244, 2006.

329. Pilia, G., Chen, W., Scuteri, A., Orrú, M., Albai, G., Dei, M., Lai, S., Usala, G., Lai, M., Loi, P., Mameli, C., Vacca, L., Deiana, M., Olla, N., Masala, M., Cao, A., Najjar, S.S., Terracciano, A., Nedorezov, T., Sharov, A., Zonderman, A.B., Abecasis, G.R., Costa, P.T., Jr., Lakatta, E., & Schlessinger, D.: Heritability of cardiovascular and personality traits in 6,148 Sardinians. PloS Genetics, 2: e132; 1207-1223, 2006.

330. McCrae, R.R., Costa, P.T., Jr., Martin, T.A., Oryol, V.E., Senin, I.G., & O'Cleirigh, C.: Personality correlates of HIV stigmatization in Russia and the United States. J. Res. Pers., 41: 190-196, 2007.

331. O’Cleirigh, C., Ironson, G., Weiss, A., Costa, P.T., Jr.: Conscientiousness predicts disease progression (CD4 and viral load) in people living with HIV. Health Psychology, 26(4):473-480, 2007.

332. Costa, P.T., Jr., Terracciano, A., Uda, M., Vacca, L., Mameli, C., Pilia, G., Zonderman, A.B., Lakatta, E., Schlessinger, D., McCrae, R.R.: Personality traits in Sardinia: Testing founder population effects on trait means and variances. Behav. Genet., 37: 376-387, 2007.

333. Isaacowitz, D.M., Lockenhoff, C.E., Lane, R.D., Wright, R., Sechrest, L., Riedel, R., Costa, P.T.: Age differences in recognition of emotion in lexical stimuli and facial expressions. Psychol. Aging., 22: 147-159, 2007.

334. Bagby, R.M., Vachon, D.D., Bulmash, E.L., Toneatto, T., Quilty, L.C., & Costa, P.T., Jr.: Pathological gambling and the five-factor model of personality. Pers. Indiv. Differ., 43: 873-880, 2007.

335. Savla, J., Davey, A., Costa, P.T., Jr., & Whitfield, K.E.: Replicating the NEO-PI-R factor structure in African-American older adults. Pers. Indiv. Differ., 43: 1279-1288, 2007.

336. McCrae, R.R., & Costa, P.T., Jr.: Brief versions of the NEO-PI-3. J. Indiv. Differ., 28: 116-128, 2007.

337. Ryder, A.G., Costa, P.T., Bagby, R.M.: Evaluation of the SCID-II personality disorder traits for DSM-IV: Coherence, discrimination, relations with general personality traits, and functional impairment. J. Pers. Disord., 21: 626-637, 2007.

338. Nestadt, G., Costa, P.T., Jr., Hsu, F., Samuels, J., Bienvenu, O.J., & Eaton, W.W.: The relationship between the five-factor model and latent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition personality disorder dimensions. Comp. Psychiatry, 49: 98-105, 2008.

339. Ironson, G.H., O'Cleirigh, C., Weiss, A., Schneiderman, N., & Costa, P.T., Jr.: Personality and HIV disease progression: Role of NEO-PI-R Openness, Extraversion, and profiles of engagement. Psychosom. Med., 70: 245-253, 2008.

340. Costa, P.T., Jr., McCrae, R.R., Martin, T.A.: Incipient adult personality: The NEO-PI-3 in middle-school-aged children. Brit. J. Dev. Psychol., 26: 71-89, 2008.

341. Löckenhoff, C.E., Costa, P.T. Jr., & Lane, R.D.: Age differences in descriptions of emotional experiences in oneself and others. J. Gerontol: Psychol. Sci., 63B: P92-99, 2008.

342. Brummett, B. H., Siegler, I. C., Day, S., and Costa, P.T., Jr.: Personality as a predictor of

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