Peter J. Rentfrow
Peter Jason Rentfrow is professor of personality and individual differences in the Psychology Department at Cambridge University, where he directs the Social Dynamics Research Center. He was elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Alan Turing Institute.
Rentfrow's research interests include geographical psychology, music psychology, and psychological assessment. Rentfrow has published over 150 scientific articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature Human Behavior, PNAS, Psychological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and American Psychologist. He edited Geographical Psychology], which reviews the state of the science on the ways in which psychological traits vary across geographic regions. With Daniel J. Levitin, he co-edited Foundations in Music Psychology], which reviews the state of the science on the neurological, cognitive, and social psychological bases of musical experiences. Rentfrow has served as a member of the senior editorial team for for five psychology journals, including Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Biography
Rentfrow was born in Louisiana and later moved to Texas, where he graduated from Kingwood High School. He studied psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his BA in 1998 and PhD in 2004 under the supervision of Samuel D. Gosling, William B. Swann, and James W. Pennebaker. Rentfrow joined the faculty of the Psychology Department at Cambridge University in 2005.
Research
Rentfrow's research seeks to understand the ways in which personality traits interact with the environment and become expressed in everyday life. The conceptual framework guiding this research draws from theories of person-environment interactions, which posit that individuals seek and create environments that satisfy and reinforce their needs. Within this framework, Rentfrow has established three lines of research: geographical differences in personality, musical preferences, and psychological and behavioral assessment.
Geographical psychology
Geographical psychology is an emerging field concerned with the spatial organization of psychological phenomena and the mechanisms that are responsible for their organization. Rentfrow's research in geographical psychology demonstrates that social influence, ecological influence, and selective migration are key mechanisms that contribute to the spatial clustering of psychological characteristics.[1] Furthermore, investigations in multiple countries have shown that the psychological characteristics common in regions are related to political voting behavior.[2][3][4] economic growth,[5][6] entrepreneurism,[7][8] social capital,[9] as well as psychological and physical health indicators.[10][11][12] Geographical psychology helps bridge theory and research in psychology with work in political science, economics, sociology, and epidemiology.[1][2][13][11][3][14][15]
Personal tastes and preferences
Personal tastes and preferences – whether for music, film, television, or clothing – serve to satisfy individuals’ social and psychological needs. A central aim of Rentfrow's work in this area seeks to understand the degree to which personal preferences reflect and effectively communicate information about people’s psychological characteristics.[16][17][18][19]
Psychological and behavioral assessment
Rentfrow has developed a number of measures to assess various psychological constructs. In collaboration with Samuel D. Gosling, Rentfrow developed the Ten-Item Personality Inventory,[20] which is a brief measure of the Big Five personality traits. Also with Gosling, he developed the Short Test of Musical Preferences,[17] an individual difference measure designed to assess musical preferences. With Lewis R. Goldberg and Daniel J. Levitin, Rentfrow developed an audio-based measure of musical preferences in which respondents report their effective reactions to excerpts of various pieces of music.[16][21] In addition to traditional self-report measures, Rentfrow has collaborated with computer scientist Cecilia Mascolo to develop a mobile sensing platform for measuring behavior and psychological states unobtrusively.[22][23][24]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rentfrow, Peter J.; Jokela, Markus (2016-12-01). "Geographical Psychology: The Spatial Organization of Psychological Phenomena". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 25 (6): 393–398. doi:10.1177/0963721416658446. ISSN 0963-7214. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rentfrow, Peter J.; Gosling, Samuel D.; Potter, Jeff (2008-09-01). "A Theory of the Emergence, Persistence, and Expression of Geographic Variation in Psychological Characteristics". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 3 (5): 339–369. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6924.2008.00084.x. ISSN 1745-6916. PMID 26158954. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rentfrow, Peter J.; Jokela, Markus; Lamb, Michael E. (2015-03-24). "Regional Personality Differences in Great Britain". PLOS ONE. 10 (3): e0122245. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122245. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4372610. PMID 25803819.
- ↑ Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I; Soudis, Dimitrios; Martin, Ron L; Rentfrow, Peter Jason (2018-02-05). "Brexit and the relevance of regional personality traits: more psychological Openness could have swung the regional vote". Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 11 (1): 165–175. doi:10.1093/cjres/rsx031. ISSN 1752-1378.
- ↑ Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I; Soudis, Dimitrios; Martin, Ron; Rentfrow, Jason (2018-06-15). "The relevance of personality traits for urban economic growth: making space for psychological factors". Journal of Economic Geography. 19 (3): 541–565. doi:10.1093/jeg/lby025. ISSN 1468-2702.
- ↑ Obschonka, Martin; Stuetzer, Michael; Audretsch, David B.; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Potter, Jeff; Gosling, Samuel D. (2016-03-01). "Macropsychological Factors Predict Regional Economic Resilience During a Major Economic Crisis". Social Psychological and Personality Science. 7 (2): 95–104. doi:10.1177/1948550615608402. ISSN 1948-5506. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Audretsch, David B.; Wyrwich, Michael; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Coombes, Mike; Shaw-Taylor, Leigh; Satchell, Max (2016-07-01). "Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture: An empirical analysis using historical coalfields". European Economic Review. 86: 52–72. doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.08.012. ISSN 0014-2921.
- ↑ Stuetzer, Michael; Audretsch, David B.; Obschonka, Martin; Gosling, Samuel D.; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Potter, Jeff (2018-05-04). "Entrepreneurship culture, knowledge spillovers and the growth of regions". Regional Studies. 52 (5): 608–618. doi:10.1080/00343404.2017.1294251. ISSN 0034-3404. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Rentfrow, P. J. (2010). "APA PsycNet". The American Psychologist. 65 (6): 548–558. doi:10.1037/a0018194. PMID 20822196. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
- ↑ Obschonka, M.; Stuetzer, M.; Rentfrow, P. J.; Shaw-Taylor, L.; Satchell, M.; Silbereisen, R. K.; Potter, J.; Gosling, S. D. (2018). "APA PsycNet". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 115 (5): 903–927. doi:10.1037/pspp0000175. PMID 29154557. Retrieved 2021-08-13. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 Jokela, Markus; Bleidorn, Wiebke; Lamb, Michael E.; Gosling, Samuel D.; Rentfrow, Peter J. (2015-01-20). "Geographically varying associations between personality and life satisfaction in the London metropolitan area". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (3): 725–730. doi:10.1073/pnas.1415800112. PMC 4311843. PMID 25583480.
- ↑ Rentfrow, Peter J.; Mellander, Charlotta; Florida, Richard (2009-12-01). "Happy States of America: A state-level analysis of psychological, economic, and social well-being". Journal of Research in Personality. 43 (6): 1073–1082. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2009.08.005. ISSN 0092-6566.
- ↑ Rentfrow, P. J.; Gosling, S. D.; Jokela, M.; Stillwell, D. J.; Kosinski, M.; Potter, J. (2013). "APA PsycNet". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 105 (6): 996–1012. doi:10.1037/a0034434. PMID 24128185. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
- ↑ Wei, Wenqi; Lu, Jackson G.; Galinsky, Adam D.; Wu, Han; Gosling, Samuel D.; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Yuan, Wenjie; Zhang, Qi; Guo, Yongyu; Zhang, Ming; Gui, Wenjing (December 2017). "Regional ambient temperature is associated with human personality". Nature Human Behaviour. 1 (12): 890–895. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0240-0. ISSN 2397-3374. PMID 31024181. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Götz, Friedrich M.; Stieger, Stefan; Gosling, Samuel D.; Potter, Jeff; Rentfrow, Peter J. (November 2020). "Physical topography is associated with human personality". Nature Human Behaviour. 4 (11): 1135–1144. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0930-x. ISSN 2397-3374. PMID 32895542 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ 16.0 16.1 Rentfrow, P. J.; Goldberg, L. R.; Levitin, D. J. (2011). "APA PsycNet". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 100 (6): 1139–1157. doi:10.1037/a0022406. PMC 3138530. PMID 21299309.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Rentfrow, P. J.; Gosling, S. D. (2003). "APA PsycNet". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 84 (6): 1236–1256. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.84.6.1236. PMID 12793587. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
- ↑ Rentfrow, Peter J.; Gosling, Samuel D. (2006-03-01). "Message in a Ballad: The Role of Music Preferences in Interpersonal Perception". Psychological Science. 17 (3): 236–242. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01691.x. ISSN 0956-7976. PMID 16507064. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Rentfrow, Peter J. (2012). "The Role of Music in Everyday Life: Current Directions in the Social Psychology of Music". Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 6 (5): 402–416. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2012.00434.x. ISSN 1751-9004.
- ↑ Gosling, Samuel D.; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Swann, William B. (2003-12-01). "A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains". Journal of Research in Personality. 37 (6): 504–528. doi:10.1016/S0092-6566(03)00046-1. ISSN 0092-6566.
- ↑ Rentfrow, Peter J.; Goldberg, Lewis R.; Stillwell, David J.; Kosinski, Michal; Gosling, Samuel D.; Levitin, Daniel J. (2012-12-01). "The Song Remains the Same: A Replication and Extension of the MUSIC Model". Music Perception. 30 (2): 161–185. doi:10.1525/mp.2012.30.2.161. ISSN 0730-7829. PMC 4016970. PMID 24825945.
- ↑ Rachuri, Kiran K.; Musolesi, Mirco; Mascolo, Cecilia; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Longworth, Chris; Aucinas, Andrius (2010-09-26). "EmotionSense: a mobile phones based adaptive platform for experimental social psychology research". Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp '10. Copenhagen, Denmark: Association for Computing Machinery: 281–290. doi:10.1145/1864349.1864393. ISBN 978-1-60558-843-8. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Rachuri, Kiran K.; Mascolo, Cecilia; Musolesi, Mirco; Rentfrow, Peter J. (2011-09-19). "SociableSense: exploring the trade-offs of adaptive sampling and computation offloading for social sensing". Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. MobiCom '11. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 73–84. doi:10.1145/2030613.2030623. ISBN 978-1-4503-0492-4. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Lathia, Neal; Pejovic, Veljko; Rachuri, Kiran K.; Mascolo, Cecilia; Musolesi, Mirco; Rentfrow, Peter J. (July 2013). "Smartphones for Large-Scale Behavior Change Interventions". IEEE Pervasive Computing. 12 (3): 66–73. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2013.56. ISSN 1536-1268. Unknown parameter
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External links
- Department Webpage: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-jason-rentfrow
- Personality and Social Dynamics Research Center page: https://www.psd.psychol.cam.ac.uk/team-members/dr-jason-rentfrow-pi
- Social Psychology Network page: https://rentfrow.socialpsychology.org
- Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TZ9YLMoAAAAJ&hl=en
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