This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and
noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately …

One major threat to revealing cultural influences on psychological states or processes is the
presence of bias (ie, systematic measurement error). When quantitative measures are not …

Decades ago, Hofstede claimed that dimensions of culture are entirely subjective creations.
In this study, we claim that some measures of culture have an objective element. We focus …

We argue that it is useful to distinguish between three key goals of personality science—
description, prediction and explanation—and that attaining them often requires different …

Individuals are different in a relatively constant pattern of thoughts, feeling, and behaviors,
which are called personality traits. Mental health is a condition of well-being in which people …

People differ in their social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills: their capacities to
maintain social relationships, regulate emotions, and manage goal-and learning-directed …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 113 (1) of Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2017-26058-001). In the article, all …

Purpose Hofstede's model of national culture has enjoyed enormous popularity but rests
partly on faith. It has never been fully replicated and its predictive properties have been …

While a major aim of cognitive science is to understand human cognition, our conclusions
are based on unrepresentative samples of the world's population. A new wave of cross …

Although scholars in the field of organizational behavior have raised concerns about a lack
of contextual appreciation, there has been a recent embrace of contextual thinking in the …