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Published Articles and Book Chapters:

           Hogan, R., Johnson, J. A., & Emler, N. P. (1978). A socioanalytic theory of moral development. In W. Damon (Ed.), New directions for child development: Vol. 2. Moral development (pp. 1-18). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

           Reprinted (1994) in B. Puka (Ed.) Fundamental research in moral development. Moral development: A compendium (Vol. 2, pp. 303-320). New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.

           Johnson, J. A., Hogan, R., Zonderman, A. B., Callens, C., & Rogolsky, S. (1981). Moral judgment, personality, and attitudes toward authority. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 370-373.

           Reprinted (1981) in J. Keating (Ed.), Annual editions: Social psychology 82/83 (pp. 147-150). Guilford, CT: Dushkin.

           Johnson, J. A. (1981). The "self-disclosure" and "self-presentation" views of item response dynamics and personality scale validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 761-769.

           Johnson, J. A., & Hogan, R. (1981). Moral judgments and self-presentations. Journal of Research in Personality, 15, 57-63.

           Johnson, J. A., & Hogan, R. (1981). Vocational interests, personality, and effective police performance. Personnel Psychology, 34, 49-53.

           Johnson, J. A., Smither, R., & Holland, J. L. (1981). Evaluating vocational interventions: A tale of two career development seminars. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 28, 180-183.

           Laufer, W. S., Johnson, J. A., & Hogan, R. (1981). Ego control and criminal behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 179-184.

           Gold, P. C., & Johnson, J. A. (1982). Prediction of achievement in reading, self-esteem, auding, and verbal language by adult illiterates in a psychoeducational tutorial program. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 38, 513-522.

           Gold, P. C., & Johnson, J. A. (1982). Entry-level achievement characteristics of youths and adults reading below fifth level: A preliminary profile and analysis. Psychological Reports, 50, 1011-1019.

           Richmond, L. J., Johnson, J. A., Downs, M., & Ellinghaus, A. (1983). Needs of non-Caucasian students in vocational education: A special minority group. Journal of Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, 12, 13-18.

           Johnson, J. A. (1983). Criminality, creativity, and craziness: Structural similarities in three types of nonconformity. In W. S. Laufer & J. M. Day (Eds.), Personality theory, moral development, and criminal behavior (pp. 81-105). Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath.

           Hansson, R. O., Hogan, R., Johnson, J. A., & Schroeder, D. (1983). Disentangling Type A behavior: The roles of ambition, insensitivity, and anxiety. Journal of Research in Personality, 17, 186-197.

           Johnson, J. A., Cheek, J. M., & Smither, R. (1983). The structure of empathy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 1299-1312.

           Smither, R., Richmond, L. J., Johnson, J. A., Ellinghaus, A., & Downs, M. (1983). Vocational identity, personal problems, and counseling needs of vocational education students. The Virginia Counselors Journal, 11, 19-25.

           Johnson, J. A., & Worley, L. D. (1987). Criminals' responses to religious themes in Whitman's poetry. In J. M. Day & W. S. Laufer (Eds.), Crime, values, and religion (pp. 133-151). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

           Johnson, J. A. (1987). Influence of adolescent social crowds on the development of vocational identity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 31, 182-199.

           Johnson, J. A., Germer, C. K., Efran, J. S., & Overton, W. F. (1988). Personality as the basis for theoretical predilections. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 824-835.

           Johnson, J. A. (1990). Empathy is a personality disposition. In R. MacKay, J. Hughes, & J. Carver (Eds.), Empathy in the helping relationship (pp. 49-64). NY: Springer.

           Ortiz, J. M., & Johnson, J. A. (1991). Philosophical worldview determines attitudes toward using background music before, during, and after counselling. Psychology of Music, 19, 159-163.

           Johnson, J. A., & Ostendorf, F. (1993). Clarification of the five factor model with the Abridged Big Five-Dimensional Circumplex. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 563-576.

           Johnson, J. A. (1994). Clarification of factor five with the help of the AB5C model. In B. De Raad & G. L. Van Heck (Eds.), The fifth of the big five [Special Issue]. European Journal of Personality, 8, 311-334.

           Johnson, J. A. (1994). Multimethod replication of the AB5C model of personality traits. In B. De Raad, W. K. B. Hofstee, & G. L. M. Van Heck, Personality psychology in Europe, Volume 5 (pp. 42-49). Tilburg, The Netherlands:TilburgUniversity Press.

           Nolan, Y., Johnson, J. A., & Pincus, A. (1994). Personality and drunk driving: Identification of DUI types using the Hogan Personality Inventory. Psychological Assessment, 6, 33-40.

           Johnson, J. A. (1997). Seven social performance scales for the California Psychological Inventory. Human Performance, 10, 1-30.

           Hogan, R., Johnson, J. A., & Briggs, S. R. (Eds.) (1997). Handbook of personality psychology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

           Johnson, J. A. (1997). Units of analysis for description and explanation in psychology. In R. Hogan, J. A. Johnson, & S. R. Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology (pp. 73-93). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

           Johnson, J. A. (1999). Persons in situations: Distinguishing new wine from old wine in new bottles. In I. Van Mechelen & B. De Raad (Eds.), Personality and situations [Special Issue]. European Journal of Personality, 13, 443-453.

           Cawley, M. J. III, Martin, J. E., & Johnson, J. A. (2000). A virtues approach to personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 28, 997-1013.

           Johnson, J. A. (2000). Predicting observers' ratings of the Big Five from the CPI, HPI, and NEO-PI-R: A comparative validity study. European Journal of Personality, 14, 1-19.

           Johnson, J. A. (2001). Methods: personality psychology. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. 16, 11313-113117. Amsterdam and New York: Elsevier.

          Hendriks, A. A. J., Perugini, M., Angleitner, A., Ostendorf, F., Johnson, J. A. De Fruyt, F., Hřebíčková, M., Murakami, T., Bratko, D., Conner, M. Janos Nagy, J., Nussbaum, S., Rodríguez-Fornells, A., & Ruisel, I. (2003). The Five Factor Personality Inventory: Cross cultural generalizability across 13 countries. European Journal of Personality, 17, 347-373.

           Johnson, J. A. (2003, Fall/Winter). Why do we admire effort and derogate beauty? Entelechy: Mind and Culture. http://www.sunydutchess.edu/bhs/andrews/why_do_we_admire_effort_and_dero.htm.

           Johnson, J. A. (2004). The impact of item characteristics on item and scale validity. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 39, 273-302.

           Johnson, J. A. (2005). Ascertaining the validity of web-based personality inventories. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 103-129.

           Buchanan, T., Johnson, J. A., & Goldberg, L. R. (2005). Implementing a five-factor personality inventory for use on the Internet. European Journal of Personality Assessment 21, 116-128.

           Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. G. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 84-96.

           Johnson, J. A. (2006). Ego syntonicity in responses to items in the California Psychological Inventory. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 73-83.

           Johnson, J. A., & Hogan, R. (2006). A socioanalytic view of faking. In R. Griffith (Ed.), A closer examination of applicant faking behavior (pp. 209-231). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

           Johnson, J. A. (2008). Preferences underlying women’s choices in academic economics. Econ Journal Watch, 5, 219-226.

           Gosling, S., & Johnson, J. A. (Eds.) (in press). Advanced internet methods for behavioral research. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

           Johnson, J. (in press). Self-report scales. In S. Gosling & J. A. Johnson (Eds.) Advanced internet methods for behavioral research. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Published Reviews:

           Johnson, J. A. (1983). [Review of Social Cognition: Studies of the development of understanding]. Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, 57(5&6), 333-334.

           Johnson, J. A. (1984). [Review of Child personality structure and development: Multivariate theory and research]. Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, 58(1), 105.

           Johnson, J. A. (1985). [Review of Social accountability and selfhood]. Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, 59(3), 322-323.

           Johnson, J. A. (1989). [Review of The emergence of morality in young children]. Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, 63(2), 260-261.

           Johnson, J. A. (1989). [Review of Social structure and personality development]. Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, 63(3), 398.

           Johnson, J. A. (1990). PDI Employment Inventory. In J. Hogan & R. Hogan (Eds.), Business and industry testing: Current practices and test reviews (pp. 425-433). Austin, TX: Pro-ed.

           Johnson, J. A. (1991). PDI Employment Inventory. In D. J Keyser & R. C. Sweetland (Eds.), Test critiques (Vol. 8, pp. 548-556). Austin, TX: Pro-ed.

Technical Reports:

           Johnson, J. A. (1981, June). Relationship between proposed vocational program quality indicators, student satisfaction, placement, and job performance ratings. Final Report, Maryland State Department of Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 205800).

           Johnson, J. A. (1981, June). A comparison of four alternative delivery systems for vocational education: Apprenticeship, CETA, cooperative education, and industrial training. Final Report, Maryland State Department of Education. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 205801).

Papers Presented:

           Johnson, J. A. (1980, June). A nationwide survey of quality indicators for vocational education. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Local Advisory Councils on Vocational-Technical Education, Easton, MD.

           Johnson, J. A. (1980, September). Personality tests: Self-disclosures or self- presentations? Paper presented at the 88th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Montreal, Canada. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 192 232)

           Johnson, J. A. (1981, September). Women returning to college: Occupation at enrollment, career aspirations, and job attained. Paper presented at the Research Conference on the Continuing Education of Women, Baltimore, MD.

           Hogan, R., & Johnson, J. A. (1981, September). The structure of personality. Paper presented at the 89th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.

           Johnson, J. A., & Cheek, J. M. (1982, April). Content dimensions of Hogan's Empthy Scale. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

           Johnson, J. A., & Keown, W. H. (1983, April). Personality characteristics of successful 2- and 4-year engineering students. Paper presented at the North Central Section Meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education, Johnstown, PA.

           Johnson, J. A., & Schroeder, D., & Hogan, R. (1983, April). Salutary and pathogenic components of the Type A syndrome. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

           Johnson, J. A., & Cheek, J. M. (1984, April). Influence of adolescent social cliques on vocational identity. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 246 360)

           Johnson, J. A. (1984, August). Measuring item ambiguity and subtlety in the California Psychological Inventory. Poster presented at the 92nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

           Johnson, J. A. (1984, August). Personality correlates of the organicism-mechanism dimension. Paper presented at the 92nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

           Johnson, J. A. (1986, April). Item ambiguity, subtlety, and discriminating power in the California Psychological Inventory. Poster presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.

           Johnson, J. A. (1986, August). Can job applicants dissimulate on personality tests? Poster presented at the 94th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D. C.

           Aul, L. E., Sr., & Johnson, J. A. (1987, April). Tacit knowledge, social insight, and personality. Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Arlington, VA. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 288 175)

           Johnson, J. A. (1987, April). Moderating effects of intraindividual variance across the trait descriptive universe. Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Arlington, VA. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 288 176)

           Worley, L. D., & Johnson, J. A. (1987, April). Projective and intraceptive styles of poetry interpretation. Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Arlington, VA. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 292 102)

           Johnson, J. A. (1987, August). Dissembling on the Hogan Personality Inventory during simulated personnel selection. Poster presented at the 95th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, New York, NY. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 290 785)

           Johnson, J. A. (1987, August). Toward valid measurement of Stephen Pepper's World Hypotheses. Poster presented at the 95th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, New York, NY. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 290 785)

           Johnson, J. A. (1988, April). Item ambiguity as a moderator of correlations between observer ratings and self-reports. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Buffalo, NY.

           Ortiz, J. M., & Johnson, J. A. (1989, March). Philosophical orientation and attitudes toward using music in psychotherapy. Poster presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

           Johnson, J. A., Howey, R. M., Reedy, Y. B., Gribble, H. A., & Ortiz, J. M. (1989, June). Extending the construct validity of the Organicism-Mechanism Paradigm Inventory. Paper presented at the 1st Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Alexandria, VA.

           Nolan, Y., & Johnson, J. A. (1989, August). Personality dynamics of driving under the influence of alcohol. Paper presented at the 97th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

           Horner, K. L., & Johnson, J. A. (1990, March). Influence of private and public self- consciousness on dissembling. Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

           Johnson, J. A., & Horner, K. L. (1990, March). Personality inventory item responses need not veridically reflect "actual behavior" to be valid. Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

           Johnson, J. A. (1990, June). Unlikely virtues provide multivariate substantive information about personality. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Dallas, TX.

           Johnson, J. A. (1991, June). Interpreting the California Psychological Inventory with the AB5C model. Invited paper presented to the Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

           Johnson, J. A. (1992, June). Multimethod replication of the AB5C model. Paper presented at the Sixth European Conference on Personality, Groningen, The Netherlands.

           Johnson, J. A. (1993, April). Toward a consensual definition of the Big Five. Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Arlington, VA.

           Johnson, J. A. (1993, August). Sex roles do not lead to gender differences in personality. Poster presented at the 5th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Binghamton, NY.

           Johnson, J. A, & Feldman, L. A. (1994, June). Evolution of personality, mood, and landscape preferences. Paper presented at the 6th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Ann Arbor, MI.

           Johnson, J. A. (1996, July). Predicting observers' ratings of the big five from self-report inventories. Invited paper presented at the Eighth European Conference on Personality, Ghent, Belgium.

           Johnson, J. A. (1999, April). Which students and groups collaborate successfully? Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium, University Park, PA.

           Johnson, J. A. (1999, July). Some hypotheses concerning attempts to separate situations from personality dispositions. Invited paper presented at the Sixth European Congress of Psychology, Rome.

           Buchanan, T., Goldberg, L. R., & Johnson, J. A. (1999, November). WWW personality assessment: Evaluation of an on-line five factor inventory. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.

           Johnson, J. A. (2000, March). Web-based personality assessment. Poster presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD.

           Johnson, J. A. (2001, May). Screening massively large data sets for non-responsiveness in web-based personality inventories. Invited talk to the joint Bielefeld-Groningen Personality Research Group, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

           Johnson, J. A. (2001, May). Reconsidering the causal efficacy of situations. Plenary address for the Biannual Kurt Lewin Institute Congress, Zeist, The Netherlands.

           Johnson, J. A. (2002, July). Effect of construal communality on the congruence between self-report and personality impressions. In P. Borkenau & F. M. Spinath (Chairs), Personality judgments: Theoretical and applied issues. Invited symposium conducted at the meeting of the 11^th European Conference on Personality, Jena, Germany.

           Johnson, J. A. (2004, January). Ascertaining the validity of web-based personality inventories. Invited talk at the fifth annual meeting of the Association for Research on Personality, Austin, Texas.

           Johnson, J. A. (2005, January). The good, the bad, and the ugly: The IPIP consultant's experiences recounted. In L. R. Goldberg (Chair), The International Personality Item Pool, and the Future of Public-Domain Personality Measures. Presidential Symposium at the sixth annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, New Orleans.

           Johnson, J. A. (2005, January). Ego Syntonicity in CPI Items. Invited talk for the symposium honoring the 2005 Jack Block Award winner Harrison G. Gough, sixth annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, New Orleans.

           Carroll, J., Gottschall, J., Johnson, J. A., & Kruger, D. (2005, June). Individual differences in the achievement of evolutionarily relevant goals in Victorian novels. Paper presented at the 17th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Austin, TX.

           Johnson, J. A., Carroll, J., Gottschall, J., & Kruger, D. (2006, January). The Victorian folk psychology of personality and life goals. Poster presented at the seventh annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Palm Springs, CA.

           Carroll, J., Johnson, J. A., Gottschall, J., & Kruger, D. (2006, June). Graphing Jane Austin: Toward a new humanities. Paper presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Philadelphia, PA.

           Holden, R. R., Johnson, J. A., & Murray, G. (2007, June). Personality itemmetrics: What differentiates among the elite items of the NEO-FFI? Poster presented at the 68th annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

           Carroll, J., Johnson, J. A., Gottschall, J., & Kruger, D. (2007, June). Male and female characters by male and female authors in British novels of the nineteenth century.  Paper presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Williamsburg, VA.

           Johnson, J. A. (2007, June). The evolution of moral rules from natural laws. Poster presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Williamsburg, VA.

           Smither, R., Johnson, J. A., Smither, J., & Bishop, A. (2007, August). Meditation, health promotion, and the five factor model of personality. Poster presented at the 115th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

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Research Interests:

My research has been aimed at improving the validity of self-report personality tests. I am especially interested in methods for improving the validity and pragmatic utility of computer-generated, narrative personality reports for single individuals.

In addition to my research aimed at improving personality test validity, I have conducted research in several specific content areas. These include

Grants:

Title III Grant from U.S. Department of Education

Small Grants from DuBois Education Foundation:

Small Grant from Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning:  

Small Grant from the Center for Learning and Academic Technologies:

Small Grant from the Penn State RDG Program  

Small Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:  

Major Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung: