Robert R. McCrae

76.3k total citations · 24 hit papers
201 papers, 47.2k citations indexed

About

Robert R. McCrae is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert R. McCrae has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 47.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Clinical Psychology, 73 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 44 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Robert R. McCrae's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (117 papers), Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (62 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (46 papers). Robert R. McCrae is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (117 papers), Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (62 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (46 papers). Robert R. McCrae collaborates with scholars based in United States, Estonia and United Kingdom. Robert R. McCrae's co-authors include Paul T. Costa, Oliver P. John, Antonio Terracciano, Alan B. Zonderman, Mark R. Somerfield, Thomas Martin, Jeffrey H. Herbst, Ralph L. Piedmont, Shinji Yamagata and Michael Harris Bond and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and Journal of Applied Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Robert R. McCrae

199 papers receiving 42.9k citations

Hit Papers

An Introduction to the Five‐Factor Model and Its Applicat... 1980 2026 1995 2010 1992 1987 1997 1992 1992 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. An Introduction to the Five‐Factor Model and Its Applications
    1992 4.5k citations Robert R. McCrae et al. Journal of Personality profile →
  2. Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers.
    1987 4.1k citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  3. Personality trait structure as a human universal.
    1997 2.6k citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa American Psychologist profile →
  4. Normal personality assessment in clinical practice: The NEO Personality Inventory.
    1992 2.3k citations Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae Psychological Assessment profile →
  5. Four ways five factors are basic
    1992 2.2k citations Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae profile →
  6. NEO inventories for the NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-3), NEO Five-Factor Inventory-3 (NEO-FFI-3), NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO PI-R) : professional manual
    2010 1.7k citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa profile →
  7. Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: Happy and unhappy people.
    1980 1.6k citations Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  8. The five-factor theory of personality.
    2008 1.6k citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa profile →
  9. Personality Disorders and The Five-Factor Model of Personality
    1990 1.3k citations Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae Journal of Personality Disorders profile →
  10. Personality in adulthood: A six-year longitudinal study of self-reports and spouse ratings on the NEO Personality Inventory.
    1988 1.0k citations Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  11. Personality in adulthood: A six-year longitudinal study of self-reports and spouse ratings on the NEO Personality Inventory.
    1988 895 citations Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  12. Personality, coping, and coping effectiveness in an adult sample
    1986 835 citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa Journal of Personality profile →
  13. A contemplated revision of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory
    2003 789 citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa profile →
  14. The Five-Factor Model of Personality and Its Relevance to Personality Disorders
    1992 741 citations Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae Journal of Personality Disorders profile →
  15. Toward a new generation of personality theories: Theoretical contexts for the five-factor model.
    1996 676 citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa profile →
  16. Social consequences of experiential openness.
    1996 660 citations Robert R. McCrae Psychological Bulletin profile →
  17. Evaluating replicability of factors in the Revised NEO Personality Inventory: Confirmatory factor analysis versus Procrustes rotation.
    1996 655 citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  18. Personality in Adulthood
    2003 644 citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa et al. profile →
  19. Reinterpreting the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator From the Perspective of the Five‐Factor Model of Personality
    1989 598 citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa Journal of Personality profile →
  20. Social desirability scales: More substance than style.
    1983 588 citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa profile →
  21. The structure of interpersonal traits: Wiggins's circumplex and the five-factor model.
    1989 544 citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  22. Internal Consistency, Retest Reliability, and Their Implications for Personality Scale Validity
    2010 526 citations Robert R. McCrae, Shinji Yamagata et al. profile →
  23. From catalog to classification: Murray's needs and the five-factor model.
    1988 515 citations Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  24. The Stability of Personality: Observations and Evaluations
    1994 458 citations Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa profile →

Peers

Robert R. McCrae
Mark R. Leary United States
Paul T. Costa United States
Adrian Furnham United Kingdom
Oliver P. John United States
Peter Salovey United States
Barbara L. Fredrickson United States
David P. MacKinnon United States
David Watson Canada
Shelley E. Taylor United States
Phillip R. Shaver United States
Mark R. Leary United States
Robert R. McCrae
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All Works

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Allïk, Jüri, Anu Realo, & Robert R. McCrae. (2023). Conceptual and methodological issues in the study of the personality-and-culture relationship. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1077851–1077851. 8 indexed citations
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Costa, Paul T. & Robert R. McCrae. (2015). The NEO Inventories as Instruments of Psychological Theory. Oxford University Press eBooks. 32 indexed citations
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McCrae, Robert R.. (2013). Exploring Trait Assessment of Samples, Persons, and Cultures. Journal of Personality Assessment. 95(6). 556–570. 15 indexed citations
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Borkenau, Peter, Robert R. McCrae, & Antonio Terracciano. (2012). Do men vary more than women in personality? A study in 51 cultures. Journal of Research in Personality. 47(2). 135–144. 33 indexed citations
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Chan, Wayne, Robert R. McCrae, Darrin L. Rogers, et al.. (2011). Rater wealth predicts perceptions of outgroup competence. Journal of Research in Personality. 45(6). 597–603. 3 indexed citations
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McCrae, Robert R., Shinji Yamagata, Kerry L. Jang, et al.. (2008). Substance and artifact in the higher-order factors of the Big Five.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 95(2). 442–455. 101 indexed citations
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McCrae, Robert R.. (2008). A Note on Some Measures of Profile Agreement. Journal of Personality Assessment. 90(2). 105–109. 142 indexed citations
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Löckenhoff, Corinna E., Antonio Terracciano, O. Joseph Bienvenu, et al.. (2007). Ethnicity, education, and the temporal stability of personality traits in the East Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. Journal of Research in Personality. 42(3). 577–598. 64 indexed citations
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Terracciano, Antonio, Paul T. Costa, & Robert R. McCrae. (2006). Personality Plasticity After Age 30. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 32(8). 999–1009. 316 indexed citations
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Costa, Paul T., R. Michael Bagby, Jeffrey H. Herbst, & Robert R. McCrae. (2005). Personality self-reports are concurrently reliable and valid during acute depressive episodes. Journal of Affective Disorders. 89(1-3). 45–55. 175 indexed citations
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Costa, Paul T. & Robert R. McCrae. (2000). Overview: Innovations in Assessment Using the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Assessment. 7(4). 325–327. 34 indexed citations
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Yang, Jian, Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa, et al.. (2000). The Cross-Cultural Generalizability of Axis-II Constructs: An Evaluation of Two Personality Disorder Assessment Instruments in the People's Republic of China. Journal of Personality Disorders. 14(3). 249–263. 74 indexed citations
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Yang, Jian, Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa, et al.. (1999). Cross-cultural personality assessment in psychiatric populations: The NEO-PI—R in the People's Republic of China.. Psychological Assessment. 11(3). 359–368. 119 indexed citations
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McCrae, Robert R., et al.. (1998). Effects of Two MMPI-2 Validity Scales on Basic Scale Relations to External Criteria. Journal of Personality Assessment. 70(1). 87–102. 19 indexed citations
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McCrae, Robert R. & Paul T. Costa. (1997). Personality trait structure as a human universal.. American Psychologist. 52(5). 509–516. 275 indexed citations
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McCrae, Robert R.. (1996). Social consequences of experiential openness.. Psychological Bulletin. 120(3). 323–337. 660 indexed citations breakdown →
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Costa, Paul T. & Robert R. McCrae. (1992). "'Normal' personality inventories in clinical assessment: General requirements and the potential for using the NEO Personality Inventory": Reply.. Psychological Assessment. 4(1). 20–22. 50 indexed citations
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McCrae, Robert R. & Paul T. Costa. (1989). The structure of interpersonal traits: Wiggins's circumplex and the five-factor model.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 56(4). 586–595. 544 indexed citations breakdown →
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McCrae, Robert R.. (1989). Age Differences and Changes in the Use of Coping Mechanisms. Journal of Gerontology. 44(6). P161–P169. 98 indexed citations
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McCrae, Robert R. & Paul T. Costa. (1989). Reinterpreting the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator From the Perspective of the Five‐Factor Model of Personality. Journal of Personality. 57(1). 17–40. 598 indexed citations breakdown →

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