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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.

'Reconceptualising Emotional Dysregulation': Considering a Multidimensional Approach to Youth Psychopathology (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Antony, E. (2023, March). 'Reconceptualising Emotional Dysregulation': Considering a Multidimensional Approach to Youth Psychopathology. Poster presented at Psychology & Education Cluster Poster Session, School of Education, Durham University, Durham

This research poster was presented in the School of Education, as part of the Psychology & Education Cluster Poster Session. To date, it covers the research I have conducted so far in Year 1, alongside proposed plans for methodology and finally, expe... Read More about 'Reconceptualising Emotional Dysregulation': Considering a Multidimensional Approach to Youth Psychopathology.

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]

Moderators of learning and performance trajectories in microworld simulations: Too soon to give up on intellect!? (2018)
Journal Article
Birney, D., Beckmann, J., Beckmann, N., Double, K., & Whittingham, K. (2018). Moderators of learning and performance trajectories in microworld simulations: Too soon to give up on intellect!?. Intelligence, 68, 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2018.03.008

The burgeoning increase in the importance given to non-cognitive factors in complex decisions making, has led to calls to question intelligence as the primary explanatory model of success. Features of a business microworld simulation were experimenta... Read More about Moderators of learning and performance trajectories in microworld simulations: Too soon to give up on intellect!?.

To talk or not to talk: A review of situational antecedents of willingness to communicate in the second language classroom (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Beckmann, N., & Beckmann, J. (2018). To talk or not to talk: A review of situational antecedents of willingness to communicate in the second language classroom. System, 72, 226-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.01.003

Willingness to communicate (WTC) used to be seen as a stable, trait-like communicative tendency; however, in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), attention has recently shifted to its more dynamic, state-like components. This article syste... Read More about To talk or not to talk: A review of situational antecedents of willingness to communicate in the second language classroom.

Situation contingent units of personality at work (2018)
Journal Article
Wood, R., Beckmann, N., Birney, D., Beckmann, J., Minbashian, A., & Chau, R. (2019). Situation contingent units of personality at work. Personality and Individual Differences, 136, 113-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.01.026

Conscientiousness and neuroticism were studied as situation contingencies in a sample of 124 managers. Experience sampling measures of situational characteristics, state conscientiousness and state neuroticism were collected before, during and after... Read More about Situation contingent units of personality at work.

Emotional intelligence and individual differences in affective processes underlying task-contingent conscientiousness (2017)
Journal Article
Minbashian, A., Beckmann, N., & Wood, R. (2018). Emotional intelligence and individual differences in affective processes underlying task-contingent conscientiousness. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(9), 1182-1196. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2233

Organisational researchers have recently begun to focus on the more dynamic aspects of personality in the workplace. The present study examines individual differences in the affective processes that underlie one such dynamic construct, task-contingen... Read More about Emotional intelligence and individual differences in affective processes underlying task-contingent conscientiousness.

Editorial: Dynamic personality science: Integrating between-person stability and within-person change (2017)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., & Wood, R. (2017). Editorial: Dynamic personality science: Integrating between-person stability and within-person change. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 1486. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01486

Trait theorists and social-cognitive theorists have begun to integrate their respective descriptions and explanations of personality. The new framing of personality accommodates both between-person stability and within-person variability in personali... Read More about Editorial: Dynamic personality science: Integrating between-person stability and within-person change.

Educator–student communication in sex & relationship education: a comparison of teacher and peer-led interventions (2017)
Journal Article
Dobson, E., Beckmann, N., & Forrest, S. (2017). Educator–student communication in sex & relationship education: a comparison of teacher and peer-led interventions. Pastoral Care in Education, 35(4), 267-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2017.1350202

This paper presents findings from a comparative study of peer- and teacher-led Sex and Relationship Education (SRE). One lesson delivered by a peer educator, and one lesson delivered by a teacher was observed with the aim of exploring the communicati... Read More about Educator–student communication in sex & relationship education: a comparison of teacher and peer-led interventions.

Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals (2017)
Journal Article
Cooper, D., Higgins, S., & Beckmann, N. (2017). Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 45(4), 546-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047239516669104

Online instructional videos are becoming increasingly common within education. This study adopts a quasi-experimental 2 × 2 crossover design (control and experimental groups) to evaluate the efficacy of instructional videos to teach practical rehabil... Read More about Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals.

Beyond the Intellect: Complexity and learning trajectories in Raven’s Progressive Matrices depend on self-regulatory processes and conative dispositions (2017)
Journal Article
Birney, D., Beckmann, J., Beckmann, N., & Double, K. (2017). Beyond the Intellect: Complexity and learning trajectories in Raven’s Progressive Matrices depend on self-regulatory processes and conative dispositions. Intelligence, 61, 63-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2017.01.005

The Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) test entails a 40-min contextualized interaction with a set of progressively difficult cognitive activities. Item-to-item experiences accumulate to total scores determined by, and reflective of, cognitive abilit... Read More about Beyond the Intellect: Complexity and learning trajectories in Raven’s Progressive Matrices depend on self-regulatory processes and conative dispositions.

Bayesian Analysis of Individual Level Personality Dynamics (2016)
Journal Article
Cripps, E., Wood, R., Beckmann, N., Lau, J., Beckmann, J., & Cripps, S. (2016). Bayesian Analysis of Individual Level Personality Dynamics. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1065. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01065

A Bayesian technique with analyses of within-person processes at the level of the individual is presented. The approach is used to examine whether the patterns of within-person responses on a 12-trial simulation task are consistent with the predictio... Read More about Bayesian Analysis of Individual Level Personality Dynamics.

A problem shared is learning doubled: Deliberative processing in dyads improves learning in complex dynamic decision-making tasks (2015)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Beckmann, J., Birney, D., & Wood, R. (2015). A problem shared is learning doubled: Deliberative processing in dyads improves learning in complex dynamic decision-making tasks. Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 654-662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.01.052

Whilst micro-worlds or simulations have increasingly been used in higher education settings, students do not always benefit as expected from these learning opportunities. By using an experimental-control group design we tested the effectiveness of st... Read More about A problem shared is learning doubled: Deliberative processing in dyads improves learning in complex dynamic decision-making tasks.

Does schooling have an impact on short-term memory? (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Tymms, P., Beckmann, N., Beckmann, J., Elliott, J., & Merell, C. (2013). Does schooling have an impact on short-term memory?.

Short-term memory (STM) capacity in the context of academic attainment is of great importance and studied extensively although experimental interventions to increase STM or working memory have yet to produce long-term gains. But is it possible that s... Read More about Does schooling have an impact on short-term memory?.

Task appraisals, emotions, and performance goal orientation (2013)
Journal Article
Fisher, C., Minbashian, A., Beckmann, N., & Wood, R. (2013). Task appraisals, emotions, and performance goal orientation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(2), 364-373. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031260

We predict real-time fluctuations in employees' positive and negative emotions from concurrent appraisals of the immediate task situation and individual differences in performance goal orientation. Task confidence, task importance, positive emotions,... Read More about Task appraisals, emotions, and performance goal orientation.

In the heat of the moment: On the effect of state neuroticism on task performance (2013)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Beckmann, J., Minbashian, A., & Birney, D. (2013). In the heat of the moment: On the effect of state neuroticism on task performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 54(3), 447-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.022

The aim of this study was to further shed light on the relationship between neuroticism and performance by taking into account the situation-specific experience of neuroticism when undertaking cognitive tasks. A total of 121 high-performing professio... Read More about In the heat of the moment: On the effect of state neuroticism on task performance.

Small group learning: Do group members' implicit theories of ability make a difference? (2012)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Wood, R., Minbashian, A., & Tabernero, C. (2012). Small group learning: Do group members' implicit theories of ability make a difference?. Learning and Individual Differences, 22(5), 624-631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2012.06.007

We examined the impact of members' implicit theories of ability on group learning and the mediating role of several group process variables, such as goal-setting, effort attributions, and efficacy beliefs. Comparisons were between 15 groups with a st... Read More about Small group learning: Do group members' implicit theories of ability make a difference?.

Integrating the study of within- and between-person variability in personality at work (2011)
Book Chapter
Beckmann, N., Minbashian, A., & Wood, R. (2011). Integrating the study of within- and between-person variability in personality at work. In S. Boag, & N. Tiliopoulos (Eds.), Personality and individual differences : theory, assessment and application. Nova

Research on personality in the workplace has primarily focussed on differences between individuals in their typical thoughts, feelings and behaviours as represented in the five-factor model of personality (McCrae & Costa, 1999). We argue that a withi... Read More about Integrating the study of within- and between-person variability in personality at work.

Management humor: Asset or liability? (2011)
Journal Article
Wood, R., Beckmann, N., & Rossiter, J. (2011). Management humor: Asset or liability?. Organizational Psychology Review, 1(4), 316-338. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041386611418393

Should managers deliberately employ humor to persuade and motivate staff? A framework is presented for analyzing the role of humor in managerial communications. The framework includes the presenter, recipient, message, and medium and elaborates cogni... Read More about Management humor: Asset or liability?.

It depends how you look at it: On the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness at the within- and the between-person levels of analysis (2010)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Wood, R., & Minbashian, A. (2010). It depends how you look at it: On the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness at the within- and the between-person levels of analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 44(5), 593-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2010.07.004

Research on personality structure has primarily focused on patterns of covariation between traits, and less emphasis has been put on the organization of relationships between thoughts, feelings and behaviors as they occur within individuals. Over sev... Read More about It depends how you look at it: On the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness at the within- and the between-person levels of analysis.

Task-contingent conscientiousness as a unit of personality at work (2010)
Journal Article
Minbashian, A., Wood, R., & Beckmann, N. (2010). Task-contingent conscientiousness as a unit of personality at work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(5), 793-806. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020016

The present study examined the viability of incorporating task-contingent units into the study of personality at work, using conscientiousness as an illustrative example. We used experience-sampling data from 123 managers to show that (a) momentary c... Read More about Task-contingent conscientiousness as a unit of personality at work.

Contingent beliefs as predictors of within-person variation in conscientiousness at work (2009)
Journal Article
Minbashian, A., Wood, R., & Beckmann, N. (2009). Contingent beliefs as predictors of within-person variation in conscientiousness at work. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2009(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2009.44256425

The article focuses on contingent beliefs that can predict the within-person variations of personality which affect conscientiousness in the workplace. Evaluation is based three psychological aspects of job performance which are task importance, task... Read More about Contingent beliefs as predictors of within-person variation in conscientiousness at work.

Self-confidence and performance goal orientation interactively predict performance in a reasoning test with accuracy feedback (2009)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Beckmann, J., & Elliott, J. (2009). Self-confidence and performance goal orientation interactively predict performance in a reasoning test with accuracy feedback. Learning and Individual Differences, 19(2), 277-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2008.09.008

This study takes an individual differences' perspective on performance feedback effects in psychometric testing. A total of 105 students in a mainstream secondary school in North East England undertook a cognitive ability test on two occasions. In on... Read More about Self-confidence and performance goal orientation interactively predict performance in a reasoning test with accuracy feedback.

Mediation testing in management research: A review and proposals (2008)
Journal Article
Wood, R., Goodman, J., Beckmann, N., & Cook, A. (2008). Mediation testing in management research: A review and proposals. Organizational Research Methods, 11(2), 270-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428106297811

The authors review and critique the conduct and reporting of mediation analyses in 409 studies published in five leading organization studies journals over the past 25 years. The aim of the study is to learn from past practice and to use that knowled... Read More about Mediation testing in management research: A review and proposals.

Humour in organisations: no laughing matter (2007)
Book Chapter
Wood, R., Beckmann, N., & Pavlakis, F. (2007). Humour in organisations: no laughing matter. In J. Langan-Fox, C. Cooper, & R. Klimoski (Eds.), Research companion to the dysfunctional workplace : management challenges and symptoms (216-231). Edward Elgar Publishing

Personality architecture and the FFM in organisational psychology (2006)
Journal Article
Wood, R., & Beckmann, N. (2006). Personality architecture and the FFM in organisational psychology. Applied Psychology, 55(3), 454-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-0597.2006.00263.x

Cervone, Shadel, Smith, and Fiori (2006) outline an approach to the study of self-regulation that is consistent with but extends research on self-regulation and motivation within organisational psychology. At the same time, their model represents a n... Read More about Personality architecture and the FFM in organisational psychology.

Effects of feedback on performance and response latencies in untimed reasoning tests (2005)
Journal Article
Beckmann, J., & Beckmann, N. (2005). Effects of feedback on performance and response latencies in untimed reasoning tests. Psychologische Beiträge (Lengerich), 47(2), 262-278

In an experimental study, a set of 12 number series problems with open-answer format had to be solved by a sample of 120 eighth and ninth graders randomly assigned to one of two test conditions (standard condition: no feedback; feedback condition: co... Read More about Effects of feedback on performance and response latencies in untimed reasoning tests.