Paul T. Costa

106.2k citations
387 papers · 67.4k indexed · 34 hit papers · h-index 117
Topics
Personality Traits and Psychology (163 papers)Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (97 papers)Cognitive Abilities and Testing (48 papers)
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United StatesCanadaItaly

In The Last Decade

Paul T. Costa

378 papers receiving 61.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Paul T. Costa
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  • Clinical Psychology 34.3k
  • Social Psychology 22.1k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 17.2k
  • Sociology and Political Science 10.9k
  • Applied Psychology 9.0k
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All Works

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Personality and Career Success
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Capturing interests: therapeutic recreation activities for persons with dementia.
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Domains and Facets: Hierarchical Personality Assessment Using the Revised NEO Personality Inventorybreakdown →
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The structure of interpersonal traits: Wiggins's circumplex and the five-factor model.breakdown →
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Task force 2: Psychological risk factors in coronary artery disease
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About Paul T. Costa

Paul T. Costa is a scholar working on Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, having authored 387 papers that have together received 67.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Personality Traits and Psychology (163 papers), Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (97 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (48 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Applied Psychology (9.0k citations), Clinical Psychology (34.3k citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (17.2k citations). Paul T. Costa has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Robert R. McCrae, Robert R. McCrae, Antonio Terracciano, Alan B. Zonderman, Thomas A. Widiger, William W. Eaton, Robert R. McCrae, David Dye, O. Joseph Bienvenu and Corinna E. Löckenhoff. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and JAMA.

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