Name Why did you join Personality Science?
What do you hope to achieve there?
What is good personality research and/or a good paper to you?
What do you look out for?
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Mitja Back

Senior Consultant Member
I hope to help establish the first completely open journal of our field and to realize its vision of expansion (of the field, to the public, in geography). I also hope that we can attract many of our colleagues around the world to submit their work. Personality science is a broad field that covers all sorts of phenomena as well as theoretical and methodological approaches - so there is certainly no one-size fits all recipe for a good paper, and I hope that this diversity will also be covered in the journal Personality Science. Nevertheless, a good paper is conceptually sharp and explicit, considers previous research broadly (beyond boundaries of specific sub-disciplines), includes representative data (in the Brunswikian sense, that is, with regard to how well the data represents the phenomena one likes to speak to) and powerful tests (strong statistical power, direct replications), and follows open science principles (open material, open data, reproducible scripts, robustness checks across analytical variants, explicitness with regard to the exploratory or confirmatory nature of one's research).
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Verónica Benet-Martínez

Senior Consultant Member
Because of its creative and path-breaking approach One that takes into account the inseparability of personality and the socio-cultural context
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Sam Gosling

Senior Consultant Member
To provide an outlet for top-flight research in personality, no matter where it is being done or who is doing it. I hope this journal will have the flexibility to support new kinds of contributions, even if they do not look like a traditional journal article. Research that pushes the field forward in some way, whether that is by developing new methods, exploring new ideas, making new connections, improving our confidence in what we already know, or questioning what we thought we knew.
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Daniel Lakens

Methodological Consultant Member
Help create a journal that pushes the boundaries of good science. Asking a question that is important for the progress of the field, or for society; addressing it using appropriate methods, collaboratively if needed; pushing the norms.
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Daniel Leising

Methodological Consultant Member
To me, Diamond Open Access is likely to be the future of scientific publishing. With its editorial board comprising young, smart, enthusiastic, and open-minded people, I hope that Personality Science will be able to help improve the scientific standards in our field quite a bit. How necessary this is has become more than obvious in the course of the last decade. Good science is genuinely collaborative, because the issues and methods are just too complex to be satisfactorily dealt with by single individuals. Open data, open materials, and the like is all fine. But what psychology needs the most, in order for other sciences to be able to take it seriously, is: formal models of the phenomena that it studies. That requires better training in math. Real science is, almost by definition, extremely difficult and time-consuming. I hope that my generation will be able to really "change the game", such that intellectual rigor and ambition, rather than easily manipulated "sales numbers" (e.g., of publications and citations), will become the heart of it.
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Felix Schönbrodt

Methodological Consultant Member
I believe that transparency, reproducibility, methodological, and theoretical rigor are key factors of any empirical scientific discipline that wants to be taken seriously. Furthermore, knowledge can only grow when it is free and not hidden behind a paywall. For this reason, I re-allocate my reviewing and editorial contributions to sustainable and fair ways of publishing. I think that Personality Science is an excellent opportunity to create a publishing outlet that promotes these values. In my vision, Personality Science is a place for research output that you can trust. I also see it as a testbed for how far we can push innovative changes in the publishing landscape in our field. I do not want to repeat guidelines of good scientific practice, but I can highlight some (non-exhaustive) quality criteria that I deem important in particular for the field of personality science.
Theory and study design: Does the paper provide well-defined constructs and falsifiable hypotheses? Does it increase or decrease the jingle-jangle-problem? Is it (not) circular in its definition of personality and its effects? Is it possible to achieve compelling evidence with the design?
Methods: Confirmatory work should be pre-registered. Exploratory work should use appropriate methods (usually *not* p-values), such as cross-validation or multiverse analyes, and proper control of false discovery rates. Use reliable and valid measurement. Do the statistical tests really relate to the substantive hypotheses they are supposed to test? I expect full reproducibility with open data and open analytical code (that runs without errors), unless there are good reasons not to share the data.
Discussion: Does the discussion provide limits on generalizability?
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Anna Baumert

Associate Editor
In my eyes, Personality Science is the avantgarde journal for cutting-edge research and discussion in personality psychology. The journal sets new standards for open access and transparency in science. I am excited to be a part of making it the home for stimulating new formats and creative approaches to personality research, cutting across old divides. Regarding its research focus, personality science stands out for its integrative potential. I am looking forward to submissions that go beyond a confined understanding of classic personality models, dare new (mixes of) methodological approaches, and open up honest discussions about the limits of the current state of knowledge. Scientific progress needs conceptual and empirical rigor, and this stands opposed to catchy "stories".
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Ryan Hong

Associate Editor
To me, it is a privilege to be a part of the editorial team responsible for shaping this new journal’s direction in our field. With inputs from reviewers, I hope to provide authors with feedback that give them something constructive to think about, and through this collective process uplift the standards of our published work. I would also like to see more diversity in personality research, particularly in terms of study populations and researcher backgrounds. A good paper uses multiple and innovative methods to address theoretically interesting questions. What we know about a phenomenon is tied to the specific methods used to acquire that body of knowledge. I will be looking out for manuscripts that use diverse methods, complemented by rigorous statistical treatment, to tell a convincing narrative on the phenomenon of interest. At the same time, I seek to balance the need to uphold high publication standards with the observation that psychological data can be messy. Hence, I am not looking out for a “perfect” manuscript, but one where authors carefully consider the inferences that can be drawn under the constraints of their data.
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Martina Hřebíčková

Associate Editor
I have joined Personality Science, because I like the idea of this new free online open-access journal a great deal. It provides a space for publishing high-quality research results and helps individual personality psychologists as well as the field as a whole. I share the core values of this journal, particularly its policy of transparency, openness, and fairness in all matters and its commitment to diversity. I am looking forward to the new Controversy Exchanges format, which will surely be most attractive for the readers. I also value the objective to better the way of broadcasting personality science to the general public. I would love to take part in carrying out all of these ambitious plans and intentions successfully. I am looking forward to learning new things that I might be able to subsequently transfer and implement in my home country. That is a complex question. The ways of recognizing quality research are something that is being currently discussed a fair amount in the Czech Republic. Good research should yield answers to a clearly defined research problem that is well anchored in theory. It should be original and innovative at the same time and generate more questions. The results should be robust, generalizable, and replicable, while also being useful and of practical use. I usually choose studies based on their topics and on the publishing journal. I look for articles with an innovative research design that are based on high-quality data. Since I dedicate a lot of my time to linking the findings of personality psychology with social and cross-cultural psychology, I am interested in studies that incorporate an interdisciplinary approach. That is why I welcome the fact that the expansion of the field into interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches is a part of the “Mission and Vision” statement of Personality Science as a journal.
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Lauren Human

Associate Editor
I joined Personality Science because I am excited about its mission to provide an open-access outlet that publishes rigorous, impactful, and transparent personality research, from multiple disciplines and in novel formats. I hope to contribute to this mission as an Associate Editor by helping research that aligns with these values find a home at Personality Science. To me, a good paper is one that makes a contribution to personality science in a meaningful way, using sound methodological, analytical, and open practices. It also has to be clear so that it is accessible to a wide range of audiences.
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Claudio Hutz

Associate Editor
I do hope to help as much as I can. Papers that describe research that yields new information, important applications, and relationships between personality characteristics and other constructs.
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Markus Jokela

Associate Editor
To advance multidisciplinary personality science. Thoughtful research question that connects ideas, combined with sufficiently strong data, presented with transparency and clarity.
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Sumaya Laher

Associate Editor
I am hoping that the journal will bring together work on personality across regions, particularly often underrepresented in other personality journals. A good paper deals with an issue of interest in the field that is methodologically rigorous.
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Carolyn MacCann

Associate Editor
I was drawn to Personality Science as a way for strong research on individual differences to be published in open-access journals. At a very basic level, good research has a clear research question, a way of clearly testing that research question (free from other interpretations and measurement error) and a conclusion that follows from the data. I look out for papers that combine things in new ways (new measurement methods, new concepts, new theory) that seem obvious once you have thought about it.
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Atsushi Oshio

Associate Editor
Personality psychology in Japan has a long history, and there are many psychologists who study personality concepts now. However, there is a lack of international interactions between Japan and other countries. The journal focusing on diversity should boost the exchanges among the countries. I am excited when I see articles that have brand-new findings, massive datasets, and great ideas. However, I also understand that robustness and replicability of the studies are important. Both should work in cooperation to progress personality psychology more than ever.
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Marco Perugini

Associate Editor
It is a high-potential new journal. I like its mission, aims, and goals, and I think it can establish istelf in the field in a few years. I believe it can contribute to increase breadth and depth of personality research. It is also very good for European personality research and the EAPP. Good methodology, robust findings, clear thinking, specific focus of the contribution that is relevant for personality psychology, sufficient addition to cumulative knowledge for the field.
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Ryne Sherman

Associate Editor
I joined Personality Science to help advocate for and advance the many ways that personality research can be used to solve applied problems and to help people and organizations. Good personality research begins with a problem to be solved. A good paper briefly describes why that problem matters and how personality can be used to solve it. Next, it provides a detailed description of the research conducted to solve that problem. This includes information on the sample, measurement, and procedures. Next, a good paper presents analyses directly aimed at answering the question(s) behind the research and interprets those results with both design and statistical considerations in mind. Finally, a good paper explains how the findings provide insight or knowledge into the problem with which the idea for the research began.
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Michelle Yik

Associate Editor
The journal name defines the core substance and the editorial crew defines the global outlook. The entire enterprise defines a research agenda for the decades to come. A good paper is a platform on which researchers showcase their passion to understand people by testing their theoretically informed hunches and creating evidence-based take-home messages for the audience.

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