Publications

Joshua K Wood, Sara J Weston, David M Condon, Heather Kalish, Carleen Klumpp-Thomas, Holly Ann Baus, Jing Wang, Jennifer Mehalko, Jameson Travers, Kyle Pauly (2026). The effect of personality on likelihood of contracting SARS-CoV-2 in the United States. Personality and Individual Differences.

Cameron S Kay, Sara J Weston, David M Condon (2026). “To Be” or “I Am Someone Who Tends to Be”: Does the Wording of Personality Items Matter?. Collabra: Psychology.

Ian Shryock, David M Condon, Sara J Weston (2025). The stability of intraindividual means and standard deviations of affect. Personality Science.

Kendall Mather, Sara J Weston, David M Condon (2025). Exploring Generalizability from the Bottom up: Applying DTS to demonstrate an item-level approach to personality assessment. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology.

Apoorva Karekal, Kelsey Schultz, Alexander P Rockhill, Hae-Young Hawong, Sara Weston, Svjetlana Miocinovic, Nicole C Swann (2025). Electrophysiological Signatures of Planned and Unplanned Continuous Movement Termination in Parkinson’s Disease. eneuro.

Isaiah Spears, Patrick J Cruitt, Sara J Weston, Aaron J Gorelik, Ryan Bogdan, Thomas F Oltmanns, Patrick L Hill (2025). Borderline personality features moderate trajectories of health and well-being around retirement.. Psychology and Aging.

Sara Weston (2024). Personality Traits and Health Behavior Change: A Longitudinal Study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Rachel Jacobson, Dulce Wilkinson Westberg, Edward Chou, Moin Syed, Sara J Weston (2024). Using structural topic modeling to understand ethnicity-related narratives. Journal of personality.

Daniel K Mroczek, Sara J Weston, Emily C Willroth (2024). This chapter will appear in the forthcoming handbook Personality and Healthy Aging in Adulthood, edited by Patrick L. Hill and Mathias Allemand and published by Springer Nature..

David M Condon, Felix Cheung, Simine Vazire, Richard E Lucas, M Brent Donnellan, Daniel K Mroczek, Christopher J Soto, Stephen Antonoplis, Rodica Ioana Damian, David C Funder (2024). Theory: State of the Art Review [Invited Paper] Why Has Personality Psychology Played an Outsized Role in the Credibility Revolution? Olivia E. Atherton 1, Joanne M. Chung 2, Kelci Harris 3, Julia M. Rohrer 4.

Sara Weston, David Condon, Eileen Graham, Daniel Mroczek (2024). The role of personality traits in health care utilization. Personality Science.

Sara J Weston, David M Condon, P Jason Rentfrow, Ver{\'o}nica Benet-Mart{\'\i}nez (2024). The person-environment fit of immigrants to the United States: A registered report.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Kendall a Mather, Sara J Weston, David M Condon (2024). Scaling a common assessment of associative ability: Development and validation of a multiple-choice compound remote associates task. Behavior Research Methods.

SJ Weston, PL Hill, JJ Jackson (2024). Retraction of Gino et al.(2020).

Sara J Weston, David M Condon, Eileen K Graham, Daniel K Mroczek (2024). Psychology, University of Oregon, 1451 Onyx St., Eugene, OR 97403. Tel: 616-485-7765. E-mail.

Kristin Wilmoth, Benjamin L Brett, Natalie a Emmert, Carolyn M Cook, Jeffrey Schaffert, Todd Caze, Thomas Kotsonis, Margaret Cusick, Gary Solomon, Jacob E Resch (2024). Open Library of Bioscience.

Ian Shryock, David M Condon, Sara J Weston (2024). On the Trait Like Nature of Emotion Regulation Dynamics: Limited Evidence. Collabra: Psychology.

Kevin Lanning, Geoffrey Wetherell, Gwendolyn Gardiner, Sara J Weston, David M Condon (2024). On person-community fit: Trait-, person-, and type-based approaches to measurement. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology.

Margaret N Cox, Sara J Weston, Jazz Garcia, Joanna H Wright, John CR Gallo, Nicole R Giuliani (2024). Modeling Daily Profiles of ER and Socialization While Caregiving: Links to Regulation Success and Child Emotional Traits.

Olivia E Atherton, Emily C Willroth, Sara J Weston, Daniel K Mroczek, Eileen K Graham (2024). Longitudinal associations among the Big Five personality traits and healthcare utilization in the US. Social Science & Medicine.

Kevin Lanning, Geoffrey Wetherell, Gwendolyn Gardiner, Sara J Weston (2024). Current research in ecological and social psychology. Curr Res Ecol Soc Psychol.

Jen Guoa, Sara J Westonb, David M Condonc (2024). Capturing the stories of our lives: Examining the collection of life narrative data.

Sara J Weston, Patrick L Hill, M Teresa Cardador (2024). Author note.

Sara J Weston, Patrick L Hill, Daniel K Mroczek (2024). Associations for sense of purpose with smoking and health outcomes among adults with diabetes. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Sara Weston (2023). Social Support Buffers Stress Effects on Mental Health: Evidence from Daily Diary Study. Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science.

Sara Weston (2023). Cultural Differences in Emotional Expression and Well-Being. Emotion.

Sara J Weston, Ian Shryock, Ryan Light, Phillip a Fisher (2023). Selecting the number and labels of topics in topic modeling: A tutorial. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Emily C Willroth, Jing Luo, Olivia E Atherton, Sara J Weston, Johanna Drewelies, Philip J Batterham, David M Condon, Denis Gerstorf, Martijn Huisman, Avron Spiro III (2023). Personality traits and health care use: A coordinated analysis of 15 international samples.. Journal of personality and social psychology.

Logan Bradshaw, Brittany Shoots-Reinhard, Sara Weston, Ellen Peters (2023). Neuroticism, Negative Emotional Reactions, and Stockpiling Motivation. Available at SSRN 4568427.

Dillon Welindt, David M Condon, Sara J Weston (2023). Measurement invariance of the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Ian Shryock, Sara J Weston, Maureen Zalewski, David M Condon (2023). Item, Facet, and Domain Norms for the PID-5 in a Large American Sample.

Lucy B Whitmore, Sara J Weston, Kathryn L Mills (2023). BrainAGE as a measure of maturation during early adolescence. Imaging Neuroscience.

Sara Weston, Magdalena Leszko, David Condon (2023). Body mass in US adolescents: stronger ties to socioeconomic status than personality. Personality Science.

Meghan Siritzky, David Condon, Sara Weston (2022). The role of personality in shaping pandemic response: Systemic sociopolitical factors drive country differences. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Sara Weston, Magdalena Leszko, David Condon (2022). Supplementary materials to: Body mass in US adolescents: Stronger ties to socioeconomic status than personality.

Amanda J Wright, Sara J Weston, Sara Norton, Michaela Voss, Ryan Bogdan, Thomas F Oltmanns, Joshua J Jackson (2022). Prospective self-and informant-personality associations with inflammation, health behaviors, and health indicators.. Health Psychology.

Ayla J Goktan, Sara J Weston, Jing Luo, Eileen K Graham, Daniel K Mroczek (2022). Personality traits and mental health care utilization: Longitudinal findings from the MIDUS. Journal of research in personality.

David M Condon, Joshua Coughlin, Sara J Weston (2022). Personality trait descriptors: 2,818 trait descriptive adjectives characterized by familiarity, frequency of use, and prior use in psycholexical research. Journal of Open Psychology Data.

Daniel K Mroczek, Sara J Weston, Eileen K Graham, Emily C Willroth (2022). Data overuse in aging research: Emerging issues and potential solutions.. Psychology and Aging.

Eileen K Graham, Emily C Willroth, Sara J Weston, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Sean AP Clouston, Scott M Hofer, Daniel K Mroczek, Andrea M Piccinin (2022). Coordinated data analysis: Knowledge accumulation in lifespan developmental psychology.. Psychology and Aging.

Sara J Weston, Patrick L Hill, M Teresa Cardador (2021). Working toward a purpose: Examining the cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of work characteristics on sense of purpose. Journal of Personality.

Olivia E Atherton, Joanne M Chung, Kelci Harris, Julia M Rohrer, David M Condon, Felix Cheung, Simine Vazire, Richard E Lucas, M Brent Donnellan, Daniel K Mroczek (2021). Why has personality psychology played an outsized role in the credibility revolution?. Personality Science.

Sara J Weston, M Teresa Cardador, Patrick L Hill, Ted Schwaba, Jennifer Lodi-Smith, Susan K Whitbourne (2021). The relationship between career success and sense of purpose: Examining linkages and changes. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.

Sara J Weston, David M Condon, Philip a Fisher (2021). Psychosocial factors associated with preventive pediatric care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine.

Olmo Van Den Akker, Sara Weston, Lorne Campbell, Bill Chopik, Rodica Damian, Pamela Davis-Kean, Andrew Hall, Jessica Kosie, Elliott Kruse, Jerome Olsen (2021). Preregistration of secondary data analysis: A template and tutorial. Meta-psychology.

Sara J Weston, David M Condon (2021). Personality States of the Union.

David M Condon, Sara J Weston (2021). Personality states of the union. Collabra: Psychology.

Cianna Bedford-Petersen, Sara J Weston (2021). Mapping individual differences on the internet: case study of the type 1 diabetes community. JMIR diabetes.

Abby R Rosenberg, Sara J Weston, Teresa Deshields, Ryan C Fields, Gerald P Linette, Lynn a Cornelius, Yevgeniy R Semenov (2021). Health-related quality of life in patients with malignant melanoma by stage and treatment status. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Eileen K Graham, Emily C Willroth, Sara J Weston, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Sean AP, Scott M Clouston, Daniel K Mroczek, Andrea M Piccinin (2021). do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/pag0000612.

Sara J Weston, Nathan a Lewis, Patrick L Hill (2021). Building sense of purpose in older adulthood: Examining the role of supportive relationships. The Journal of Positive Psychology.

Hannah Moshontz, Charles R Ebersole, Sara J Weston, Richard a Klein (2021). A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

Sara J Weston, Grant W Edmonds, Patrick L Hill (2020). Personality traits predict dietary habits in middle-to-older adults. Psychology, health & medicine.

Eileen K Graham, Sara J Weston, Nicholas a Turiano, Damaris Aschwanden, Tom Booth, Fleur Harrison, Bryan D James, Nathan a Lewis, Steven R Makkar, Swantje Mueller (2020). Is healthy neuroticism associated with health behaviors? A coordinated integrative data analysis. Collabra: Psychology.

Sara J Weston, Eileen K Graham, Nicholas a Turiano, Damaris Aschwanden, Tom Booth, Fleur Harrison, Bryan D James, Nathan a Lewis, Steven R Makkar, Swantje Mueller (2020). Is healthy neuroticism associated with chronic conditions? A coordinated integrative data analysis. Collabra: Psychology.

Sarah R Horn, Sara J Weston, Philip a Fisher (2020). Identifying causal role of COVID-19 in immunopsychiatry models. Brain, behavior, and immunity.

Jennifer H Pfeifer, Sara J Weston (2020). Developmental cognitive neuroscience initiatives for advancements in methodological approaches: Registered Reports and Next-Generation Tools. Developmental cognitive neuroscience.

Sara J Weston, Eileen K Graham, Andrea M Piccinin (2020). Coordinated data analysis: A new method for the study of personality and health. Personality and healthy aging in adulthood: New directions and techniques.

Daniel K Mroczek, Sara J Weston, Emily C Willroth (2020). A Lifespan Perspective. Personality and Healthy Aging in Adulthood: New Directions and Techniques.

Sara J Weston, Joe J Gladstone, Eileen K Graham, Daniel K Mroczek, David M Condon (2019). Who are the scrooges? Personality predictors of holiday spending. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Sara J Weston, Stuart J Ritchie, Julia M Rohrer, Andrew K Przybylski (2019). Recommendations for increasing the transparency of analysis of preexisting data sets. Advances in methods and practices in psychological science.

Sara J Weston, Patrick Hill, Dan Mroczek (2019). Purpose in life is associated with health outcomes among diabetic adults.

Olmo Van Den Akker, Sara J Weston, Lorne Campbell, William J Chopik, Rodica I Damian, Pamela Davis-Kean, Andrew Nolan Hall, Jessica Elizabeth Kosie, E Kruse, Jerome Olsen (2019). Preregistration of secondary data analysis: A template and tutorial. PsyArXiv.

Sara J Weston, Patrick L Hill, Grant W Edmonds, Daniel K Mroczek, Sarah E Hampson (2019). No Evidence of “healthy neuroticism” in the Hawaii Personality and Health Cohort. Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Patrick L Hill, Sara J Weston (2019). Evaluating eight-year trajectories for sense of purpose in the health and retirement study. Aging & Mental Health.

Hannah Moshontz, CR Ebersole, SJ Weston, RA Klein (2019). A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations.

Sara J Weston, Joshua J Jackson (2018). The role of vigilance in the relationship between neuroticism and health: A registered report. Journal of Research in Personality.

Patrick L Hill, Sara J Weston, Joshua J Jackson (2018). The co-development of perceived support and the Big Five in middle and older adulthood. International Journal of Behavioral Development.

Sarah J Weston, DT Mellor, Marjan Bakker, Olmo Van Den Akker, Lorne Campbell, Stuart J Ritchie, William J Chopik, Rodica I Damian, Jessica Kosie, Courtney K Soderberg (2018). Secondary data preregistration. Open Science Framework.

Jen Guo, Sara J Weston, David M Condon (2018). Running head: COLLECTING LIFE NARRATIVE DATACapturing the stories of our lives: Examining the collection of life narrative data.

Laura Hennefield, Hyesung G Hwang, Sara J Weston, Daniel J Povinelli (2018). Meta-analytic techniques reveal that corvid causal reasoning in the Aesop’s Fable paradigm is driven by trial-and-error learning. Animal cognition.

Sara J Weston, Daniel J Povinelli (2018). Laura Hennefield, Hyesung G. Hwang. Anim Cogn.

AR Rosenberg, LA Cornelius, SJ Weston, TL Deshields, RC Fields, GP Linette, YR Semenov (2018). 1181 Health-related quality of life in patients with malignant melanoma by stage and treatment status. Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

Sara J Weston, Debbie Yee (2017). Why you should become a UseR: a brief introduction to R. APS Observer.

David M Condon, Sara J Weston, Patrick L Hill (2017). Reconsidering what is vital about vital signs in electronic health records: Comment on Matthews et al.(2016)..

Joshua J Jackson, Sara J Weston, Leah H Schultz (2017). Personality development and health. Personality development across the lifespan.

Juri Allik, Anu Realo, JB Asendorpf, A Baumert, M Schmitt, G Blum, R Van Bork, M Rhemtulla, D Borsboom, BP Chapman (2017). Open Peer Commentary and Authors' Response. European Journal of Personality.

Sara J Weston (2017). Building a theory of adaptive neuroticism.

JB Asendorpf, A Baumert, M Schmitt, G Blum, R Van Bork, M Rhemtulla, D Borsboom, BP Chapman, DA Clark, CE Durbin (2016). Open peer commentary and author's response. European Journal of Personality.

SJ Weston, JJ Jackson (2016). How do people respond to health news? The role of personality traits.. Psychology & Health.

Sara J Weston, Keith S Cox, David M Condon, Joshua J Jackson (2016). A comparison of human narrative coding of redemption and automated linguistic analysis for understanding life stories. Journal of Personality.

Sara J Weston, Patrick L Hill, Joshua J Jackson (2015). Personality traits predict the onset of disease. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

S Vazire, RE Wilson, B Solomon, K Bollich, K Harris, S Weston, JJ Jackson (2015). Personality and interpersonal roles (PAIRS). Study in progress.

Sara J Weston, Joshua J Jackson (2015). Identification of the healthy neurotic: Personality traits predict smoking after disease onset. Journal of Research in Personality.

Sara Jo Weston (2014). The Structure of Language: Relations to Narrative Coding, Personality, and Well-Being.

Patrick L Hill, Sara J Weston, Joshua J Jackson (2014). Connecting social environment variables to the onset of major specific health outcomes. Psychology & health.