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Personality at Work (2023)
Journal Article
Ritz, J., Woods, S., Wille, B., Woo, S., Nübold, A., Beckmann, N., …Christiansen, N. (2023). Personality at Work. Personality Science, 4(1), Article e7045. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7045

Studies of personality at work have made significant contributions to theory and applied practice in work and organizational settings. This review article proposes that there are also reciprocal influences between core personality science and researc... Read More about Personality at Work.

Innovation through Neurodiversity: Diversity is Beneficial (2023)
Journal Article
Axbey, H., Beckmann, N., Fletcher-Watson, S., Tullo, A., & Crompton, C. (2023). Innovation through Neurodiversity: Diversity is Beneficial. Autism, 27(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231158685

Those experiencing high rapport or strong social connection are more likely to copy each other, or emulate each other’s ideas, either consciously or sub-consciously. In this study, we use this phenomenon to examine whether neurotype match or mismatch... Read More about Innovation through Neurodiversity: Diversity is Beneficial.

Situation contingent negative emotions and performance: The moderating role of trait neuroticism (2022)
Journal Article
Wood, R., Beckmann, N., Ren, S., & Guan, B. (2022). Situation contingent negative emotions and performance: The moderating role of trait neuroticism. Personality and Individual Differences, 197, Article 111788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111788

Negative emotions are related to poor performance in between-person analyses but facilitate performance in within-person analyses, under certain conditions. We examine the effect of situation contingent negative emotions (SCE) on performance, and tra... Read More about Situation contingent negative emotions and performance: The moderating role of trait neuroticism.

Sophisticated statistics cannot compensate for method effects if quantifiable structure is compromised (2022)
Journal Article
Birney, D., Beckmann, J., Beckmann, N., & Stemler, S. (2022). Sophisticated statistics cannot compensate for method effects if quantifiable structure is compromised. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 812963. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.812963

Researchers rely on psychometric principles when trying to gain understanding of unobservable psychological phenomena disconfounded from the methods used. Psychometric models provide us with tools to support this endeavour, but they are agnostic to t... Read More about Sophisticated statistics cannot compensate for method effects if quantifiable structure is compromised.

Meta-analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre-K to grade 2 (2021)
Journal Article
Savva, M., Higgins, S., & Beckmann, N. (2022). Meta-analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre-K to grade 2. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(2), 526-564. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12623

Background The array of availability of diverse digital reading applications, the mixed results emerging from small-scale experimental studies, as well as the long-standing tradition and range of known positive developmental outcomes gained from adul... Read More about Meta-analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre-K to grade 2.

Systematic review measuring the efficacy of study abroad in undergraduate language learners on linguistic proficiency gains (2021)
Journal Article
Moore, I., Torgerson, C., & Beckmann, N. (2021). Systematic review measuring the efficacy of study abroad in undergraduate language learners on linguistic proficiency gains. Review of Education, 9(3), Article e3306. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3306

Ascertaining the value of a study abroad experience on facilitating language development has long been a goal of Second Language Acquisition scholars. There is currently a plethora of studies regarding the topic, yet, despite this, the evidence remai... Read More about Systematic review measuring the efficacy of study abroad in undergraduate language learners on linguistic proficiency gains.

Personality dynamics at work: The effects of form, time, and context of variability (2021)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Birney, D., Minbashian, M., & Beckmann, J. (2021). Personality dynamics at work: The effects of form, time, and context of variability. European Journal of Personality, 35(4), 421-449

The study aimed to investigate the status of within-person state variability in neuroticism and conscientiousness as individual differences constructs by exploring their (a) temporal stability, (b) cross-context consistency, (c) empirical links to se... Read More about Personality dynamics at work: The effects of form, time, and context of variability.

More than meets the ear: Individual differences in trait and state willingness to communicate as predictors of language learning performance in a Chinese EFL context (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Beckmann, N., & Beckmann, J. (2023). More than meets the ear: Individual differences in trait and state willingness to communicate as predictors of language learning performance in a Chinese EFL context. Language Teaching Research, 27(3), 593-620. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168820951931

Chinese students are frequently seen as passive learners because of their apparent reluctance to speak, particularly in English classrooms. However, this impression seems to reflect a stereotype which is likely to confound willingness to communicate... Read More about More than meets the ear: Individual differences in trait and state willingness to communicate as predictors of language learning performance in a Chinese EFL context.

Inter-individual differences in intra-individual variability in personality within and across contexts (2019)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Birney, D., Beckmann, J., Wood, R., Sojo, V., & Bowman, D. (2020). Inter-individual differences in intra-individual variability in personality within and across contexts. Journal of Research in Personality, 85, Article 103909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103909

This study focuses on intra-individual variability in personality at work, and how it relates to job performance. 288 professionals completed contextualised adjective-based personality assessments in work and non-work contexts, and a non-contextualis... Read More about Inter-individual differences in intra-individual variability in personality within and across contexts.

One situation doesn’t fit all: Variability and stability of state willingness to communicate in a Chinese College English classroom (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Beckmann, N., & Beckmann, J. (2022). One situation doesn’t fit all: Variability and stability of state willingness to communicate in a Chinese College English classroom. Language Teaching Research, 26(3), 504-529. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168819891330

Willingness to communicate (WTC) used to be studied as a relatively stable, trait-like predisposition; however, recently attention has shifted to the more dynamic, state-like components of WTC. This research investigates variability and stability in... Read More about One situation doesn’t fit all: Variability and stability of state willingness to communicate in a Chinese College English classroom.

EasyPeasy: Learning through play. Evaluation Report (2019)
Report
Robinson-Smith, L., Menzies, V., Cramman, H., Wang, Y. (., Fairhurst, C., Hallett, S., …Siddiqui, N. (2019). EasyPeasy: Learning through play. Evaluation Report. [No known commissioning body]