Smillie, L. D. & Cushing, J. E. (in press). Moral traits. To appear in S. M. Laham (Ed.), Handbook of Ethics and Social Psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing
Bonfim Pacheco, L., Feuerriegel, D., Jach, H., Robinson, E., Duong, V., Bode, S. & Smillie, L. D. (2024). Disentangling periodic and aperiodic resting EEG correlates of personality. Submitted to Neuroimage, 293, 120628.
Sun, J. & Smillie, L. D. (2024). Why moral psychology needs personality psychology. Journal of Personality, 92, 653-665.
Smillie, L. D., Ruby, M. Tan, N. P., Stollard, L., & Bastian, B. (2024), Differential Responses to Vegetarian Appeals: Exploring the Role of Traits, Beliefs, and Motives. Journal of Personality, 92, 800-819.
Scharbert, J… Smillie, L. D. … & Back, M. (2024). The Outbreak of War in Ukraine Impaired Psychological Well-Being Across Nations. Nature Communications, 15, 1201.
Smillie, L. D. & Thielmann, I. (2023). Defining and describing morality: The view from personality psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 34, 102-105.
Spackman, E. Smillie, L. D., Frazier, T. W., Harden, A. Y., & Uljarević, M. (2023). Characterizing Subdomains of Insistence on Sameness in Autistic Youth. Autism Research, 16, 2326-2335.
Wilt, J. Sun, J. Jacques-Hamilton, R. & Smillie, L. D. (2023). Why is Authenticity Associated with Being and Acting Extraverted? Exploring the Mediating Role of Positive Affect. Self and Identity, 22, 896-931.
Lawn, E. C. R., Zhao, K. Christensen, A. Laham, S. M. & Smillie, L. D. (2023). Where the head meets the heart: “Enlightened” compassion emerges at the interface of Big Five Agreeableness and Openness/Intellect. Collabra Psychology, 9, 74468.
Spackman, E. Smillie, L. D., Frazier, T. W., Harden, A. Y., Alvares, G. A., Whitehouse, A. & Uljarević, M. (2023). Profiles of circumscribed interests in autistic youth. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience, 17, 1037967.
Spackman, E. Smillie, L. D., Frazier, T. W., Harden, A. Y., Alvares, G. A., Whitehouse, A. & Uljarević, M. (2023). Characterizing restricted and unusual interests in autistic youth. Autism Research, 16, 394-405.
Tan, N. P., Bastian, B. & Smillie, L. D. (2023). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Vegetarian Appeals in Daily Life: Comparing Positive and Negative Imagery, and Gauging Differential Responses. Appetite, 180, 106358.
Summerell, P. A., Smillie, L. D. & Anderson, J. F. I. (2023). Personality traits beyond neuroticism may influence post-concussive symptomatology after mild traumatic brain injury. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 30, 661-670.
Ryakhovskaya, Y., Jach, H. K., & Smillie, L. D. (2022). Curiosity as feelings of interest versus deprivation: Relations between curiosity traits and affective states when anticipating information. Journal of Research in Personality, 96, 104164.
Tan, N. P., Connor, T. S., Sun, H., Loughnan, S. & Smillie, L. D. (2021). Who gives a veg? Relations between personality and vegetarianism. Appetite, 163, 105195.
Lawn, E. C. R., Zhao, K. Laham, S. M. & Smillie, L. D. (2022). Prosociality beyond Big Five Agreeableness and HEXACO Honesty-Humility: Is Openness/Intellect associated with cooperativeness in the Public Goods Game? European Journal of Personality, 36, 901 - 925
DeYoung, C. D. Beaty, R. E., Genç, E., Latzman, R. D., Passamonti, L., Servaas, M. N., Shackman, A. J., Smillie, L. D., Spreng, N., Viding, E., & Wacker, J. (2022). Personality Neuroscience: An Emerging Field with Bright Prospects. Personality Science, 3, 1-21.
Hull, K. E., Overbeck, J. R., Smillie, L. D., & Howe, P. D. (2022). The P-Word: Power and Responsibility Aversion as Explanations for the Avoidance of Power. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52, 184-196.
Jach, H. K., DeYoung, C. G. & Smillie, L. D. (2022). Why Do People Seek Information? The Role of Personality Traits and Situation Perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 934-959.
Bainbridge, T. F., Ludeke, S. & Smillie, L. D. (2022). Evaluating the Big Five as an Organizing Framework for Psychological Trait Scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 749–777.
Jach, H. K. & Smillie, L. D. (2021). Testing the Information-Seeking Theory of Openness/Intellect. European Journal of Personality, 35, 103–119.
Atherton, O.E… Smillie, L.D.… & Corker, K.S. (2021). Why has personality psychology played an outsized role in the credibility revolution? Personality Science, 2, 1-21.
Andrejević, M., Smillie, L. D., Feuerriegel, D., Turner, W. F., Laham, S. M. & Bode, S. (2021). How do Basic Personality Traits Map onto Moral Judgements of Fairness-related Actions? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 710–721.
Lawn, E. C. R., Smillie, L. D., Bomfim Pacheco, L., Laham, S. M. (2021). From ordinary to extraordinary: A roadmap for studying the psychology of moral exceptionality. Current Opinion in Psychology, 13, 329-334.
Rebele, R. W. Koval, P. & Smillie, L. D. (2021). Personality-informed intervention design: Examining how trait regulation can inform efforts to change behavior. European Journal of Personality, 35, 623–645.
Smillie, L. D., Bennett, D., Tan, N. P., Suttcliff, K., Fayn, K., Bode, S. & Wacker, J. (2021). Does openness/intellect predict sensitivity to the reward value of information? Cognitive Affective and Behavioural Neuroscience, 21, 993-1009.
Bennett, D., Suttcliffe, K., Tan, N. Smillie, L. D. & Bode, S. (2021). Anxious and obsessive-compulsive traits are independently associated with valuation of non-instrumental information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 739–755.
Smillie, L. D., Katic, M., & Laham, S. M. (2021). Personality and moral judgment: Curious consequentialists and polite deontologists. Journal of Personality, 89, 549-564.
Fong, M., Zhao, K. & Smillie, L. D. (2021). Personality and competitiveness: Extraversion, agreeableness, and their aspects predict self-reported competitiveness and competitive bidding in experimental auctions. Personality and Individual Differences, 169, 109907.
Jach, H. K., Feuerriegel, D. & Smillie, L. D. (2020). Decoding Personality Trait Measures from Resting EEG: An Exploratory Report. Cortex, 130, 158-171.
Barford, K. A., Koval, P., Kuppens, P. & Smillie, L. D. (2020). When good feelings turn mixed: Affective dynamics and Big Five trait predictors of mixed emotions in daily life. European Journal of Personality, 34, 393-411.
Anglim, J., Horwood, S., Smillie, L. D., Marrero, R. J., & Wood, J. K. (2020). Predicting Psychological and Subjective Well-Being from Personality: A Meta-Analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 146, 279-323.
Ferguson, E., Zhao, K. & Smillie, L. D. (2020). Personality, Preferences and Socioeconomics. In P. J. Corr and G. Matthews (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology (2nd Ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Ferguson, E., Zhao, K., O’Carroll, R. E., & Smillie, L. D. (2019). Costless and Costly Pro-Sociality: Correspondence among Personality Traits, Economic Preferences, and Real World Pro-Sociality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 461–471.
Smillie, L. D., Jach, H. K., Hughes, D. M., Wacker, J., Cooper, A. J. & Pickering, A. D. (2019). Extraversion and Reward-processing: Consolidating Evidence from an Electroencephalographic Index of Reward Prediction Error. Biological Psychology, 146, 107735.
Jacques-Hamilton, R., Sun, J. & Smillie, L. D. (2019). Costs and Benefits of Acting Extraverted: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 1538-1556.
Ludeke, S., Bainbridge, T. F., Zhao, K., Liu, J., Smillie, L. D. & Zettler, I. (2019). Using the Big Five Aspect Scales to translate between the HEXACO and Big Five personality models. Journal of Personality, 79, 67-78.
Slikboer, R. Rehm, I., Smillie, L. D., Rossell, S. L., & Nedeljkovic, M. (2019). How reward and punishment are viewed by individuals experiencing trichotillomania according to revised reinforcement sensitivity theory. Clinical Psychologist, 23, 47-60.
Jach, H. K. & Smillie, L. D. (2019). To Fear or Fly to the Unknown: Tolerance for Ambiguity and Big Five Personality Traits. Journal of Research in Personality, 79, 67-78.
Bainbridge, T. Quinlan, J., Mar., R. & Smillie, L. D. (2019). Openness/Intellect and Susceptibility to Pseudo-Profound Bullshit: A Replication and Extension. European Journal of Personality, 33, 72-88.
Smillie, L. D. Zhao, K., Lawn, E. C. R., Perry, R. & Laham, S. M. (2019). Prosociality and Morality through the Lens of Personality Psychology. Australian Journal of Psychology, 71, 50-58.
Smillie, L. D. & Haslam, N. (2019). Personality psychology in Australia: Introduction to the special issue. Australian Journal of Psychology, 71, 3-6.
Smillie, L. D., Kern, M., Uljarevic, M. (2019). Extraversion: Description, development, and mechanisms. In D. McAdams, R. Shiner, & J. Tackett (Eds.), Handbook of Personality Development, Guilford Press.
McNaughton, N. & Smillie, L. D. (2018). Some Metatheoretical Principles for Personality Neuroscience. Personality Neuroscience, 1, e11.
Sun, J., Kaufman, S. B., & Smillie, L. D. (2018). Unique Associations Between Big Five Personality Aspects and Multiple Dimensions of Well-Being. Journal of Personality, 86, 158–172.
Liknaitzky, P., Smillie, L. D., & Allen, N. B. (2018). The Low and Narrow: A preliminary test of the association between depressive symptoms and deficits in producing divergent inferences. Creativity Research Journal, 30, 67-77.
Zhao, K., Kashima, Y. & Smillie, L. D. (2018). From Windfall Sharing to Property Ownership: Prosocial Personality Traits in Giving and Taking Dictator Games. Games, 9, 30.
Barford, K. A., Fayn, K., Silvia, P. & Smillie, L. D. (2018). Individual differences in conflicting stimulus evaluations: Openness/Intellect predicts mixed-valenced appraisals of visual art. Journal of Research in Personality, 73, 46-55.
Zhao, K., Ferguson, E. & Smillie, L. D. (2017). When fair is not equal: Compassion and politeness predict allocations of wealth under different norms of equity and need. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 847–857.
Zhao, K., Ferguson, E., & Smillie, L. D. (2017). Politeness and Compassion Differentially Predict Adherence to Fairness Norms and Interventions to Norm Violations. Scientific Reports, 7, 3415.
Liknaitzky, P., Smillie, L. D., & Allen, N. B. (2017). Out-of-the-Blue: Depressive symptoms are associated with deficits in processing inferential expectancy-violations using a novel cognitive rigidity task. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 41, 757-776.
Antinori, A., Carter, O. L. & Smillie, L. D. (2017). Seeing it both Ways: Openness to Experience and Binocular Rivalry Suppression. Journal of Research in Personality, 68, 15-22.
Sun, J., Stevenson, K., Kabbani, R., Richardson, B. & Smillie, L. D. (2017). The Pleasure of Making a Difference: Perceived Social Contribution Explains the Relation Between Extraverted Behavior and Positive Affect. Emotion, 17, 794-810.
Zhao, K. Ferguson, E. & Smillie, L.D. (2017). Individual differences in good manners rather than compassion predict fair allocations of wealth in the dictator game. Journal of Personality, 85, 244–256.
Antinori, A., Smillie, L. D. & Carter, O. (2017). Personality measures link slower binocular rivalry switch rates to higher levels of self-discipline. Frontiers in Psychology: Consciousness Research, 17, 2008.
Smillie, L. D., Varsavsky, V., Avery, R. E., & Perry, R. (2016). Intellect (Distinct from Openness) Predicts Cognitive Engagement: Evidence from a Resource Allocation Perspective. European Journal of Personality, 30, 215–226.
Zhao, K., Ferguson, E. & Smillie, L. D. (2016). Prosocial Personality Traits Differentially Predict Egalitarianism, Generosity, and Reciprocity in Economic Games. Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology, 7, 1137.
Barford, K. & Smillie, L. D. (2016). Openness and other Big Five traits in relation to dispositional mixed emotions. Personality and Individual Differences, 102, 118–122.
Pickering, A. D., Smillie, L. D., DeYoung, C. G. (2016). Neurotic individuals are not creative thinkers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 1–2.
Smillie, L. D., DeYoung, C. G., & Hall, P. J. (2015). Clarifying the Relation Between Extraversion and Positive Affect. Journal of Personality, 83, 564-574.
Geaney, J. T., Treadway, M. T. & Smillie, L. D. (2015). Trait Anticipatory Pleasure Predicts Effort Expenditure for Reward. PLOS ONE, 10(6): e0131357.
Barford, K., Zhao, K., & Smillie, L. D. (2015). Mapping the Interpersonal Domain: Translating Between the Big Five, HEXACO, and Interpersonal Circumplex. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 232–237.
Hughes, D. M., Yates, M. J., Morton, E. E., & Smillie, L. D. (2015). Relative left frontal cortical activity predicts effort expenditure for reward. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 1015-1019.
Smillie, L. D., Wilt, J., Kabbani, R., Garratt, C. L. & Revelle, W. (2015). Quality of Social Experience Explains the Relation Between Extraversion and Positive Affect. Emotion, 15, 339-349.
Zhao, K. & Smillie, L. D. (2015). The Role of Interpersonal Traits in Social Decision Making: Exploring Sources of Behavioral Heterogeneity in Economic Games. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19, 277-302.
Wacker, J. & Smillie, L. D. (2015). Trait extraversion and dopamine function. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9 (6), 225–238.
Reuter, M., Cooper, A. J., Smillie, L. D., Markett, S., & Montag, C. (2015). A new measure for the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory: psychometric criteria and genetic validation. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 9, 38. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00038
Ho, P. M., Cooper, A. J., Hall, P. J. & Smillie, L. D. (2015). Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scales. Journal of Personality Assessment, 97(2), 200-208.
Avery, R. E., Smillie, L. D., & Shaw, C, R. (2015). Employee achievement orientations and personality as predictors of job satisfaction facets. Personality and Individual Differences, 76, 56-61.
O’Connor, E. J., Staiger, P. K., Kambouropoulos, N. & Smillie, L. D. (2014). Pathways to Social Anxiety: The Role of Reinforcement Sensitivities and Emotion Regulation. Psychiatry Research, 220, 915-920.
Smillie, L. D., Zhao, K. & Barford, K. (2014). Avoiding “greedy reductionism” in personality theory: Comment on “Personality from a cognitive-biological perspective” by Neuman. Physics of Life Reviews, 11(4), 697-698.
Smillie, L. D. & Wacker, J. (2014). Dopaminergic foundations of human personality. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 874.
Cooper, A. J., Duke, E., Pickering, A. D. & Smillie, L. D. (2014). Individual differences in reward prediction error: Contrasting relations between feedback related negativity and trait measures of extraversion, impulsivity and reward sensitivity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 248.
Gökçen, E., Petrides, K.V., Hudry, K., Fredrickson, N. & Smillie, L. D. (2014). Sub-threshold Autism Traits: The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Flexibility. British Journal of Psychology, 105(2), 187-199.
Smillie, L. D., Quek, B. K. & Dalgleish, L. I. (2014). The Impact of Asymmetric Partial Feedback on Response-Bias. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 27, 157–169.
Smillie, L. D. (2013). Why does it feel good to act like an extravert? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7/12, 878–887. [invited article]
Avery, R. E., Smillie, L. D. & de Fockert, J. W. (2013). The Role of Working Memory in Achievement Goal Pursuit. Acta Psychologica, 144(2), 361-372.
Smillie, L. D., Geaney, J. T., Wilt, J., Cooper, A., & Revelle, W. (2013). Aspects of Extraversion are Unrelated to Pleasant Affective Reactivity: Further Examination of the Affective Reactivity Hypothesis. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 580–587.
Smillie, L. D. (2013). Extraversion and Reward Processing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 167-172. [invited article]
Avery, R. E. & Smillie, L. D. (2013). The Impact of Achievement Goal States on Working Memory. Motivation and Emotion, 37, 39-49.
Smillie, L. D., Cooper, A., Wilt, J., & Revelle, W. (2012). Do Extraverts Get More Bang for the Buck? Refining the Affective-Reactivity Hypothesis of Extraversion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 306–326.
Crockett, M. J., Clark L., Smillie L. D., Robbins T. W. (2012). The effects of acute tryptophan depletion on costly information sampling: impulsivity or aversive processing? Psychopharmacology, 219, 587-597.
Guenole, N., Cockerill, T., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Smillie, L. D. (2011). Evidence for the validity of 360 dimensions in the presence of rater-source factors. Journal of Consulting Psychology: Practice and Research, 4, 211-237.
Smillie, L. D., Cooper, A., & Pickering, A. D. (2011). Variation in event related potential (ERP) index of dopamine signalling as a function of extraverted personality. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 646-652.
Harrison, A., Meyers, C., Smillie, L. D., & Treasure, J. (2011). Approach and avoidance motivation in eating disorders. Psychiatry Research, 118, 396-401.
Smillie, L. D., Loxton, N., & Avery, R. E. (2011). Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, Research, Applications and Future. In T. Chamorro-Premuzic, A. Furnham & S. von Stumm (Eds.), Handbook of Individual Differences. Wiley-Blackwell.
Smillie, L. D. & Gökçen, E. (2010). Caffeine enhances working memory for extraverts. Biological Psychology, 85, 496–498.
Perkins, A., Cooper, A., Abdelall, M., Smillie, L. D., & Corr, P. J. (2010). Personality and defensive reactions: Fear, trait anxiety and threat magnification. Journal of Personality, 78, 1071-1090.
Cooper, A., Smillie, L. D., & Corr, P. J. (2010). A confirmatory factor analysis of the Mini-IPIP Five-Factor Model personality scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 688–691.
Smillie, L. D., Cooper, A., Proitsi, P., Powell, J., & Pickering, A. D. (2010). Variation in DRD2 dopamine gene predicts extraverted personality. Neuroscience Letters, 468, 234-237.
Smillie, L. D., Yeo, G. B., & Lang, K. L. (2009). Impulsiveness and resource allocation: Testing Humphreys and Revelle’s (1984) explanation of impulsive personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 1083-1086.
Smillie, L. D., Cooper, A. J., Tharp, I. J., & Pelling, E. L. (2009). Individual differences in cognitive control: The role of psychoticism and working memory in set-shifting. British Journal of Psychology, 100, 629-643.
Smillie, L. D., Bhairo, Y., Gray, J., Gunasinghe, C., Elkin, A., Farmer, A., & McGuffin, P. (2009). Personality and the bipolar spectrum: Normative and classification data for Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 50, 48-53.
Wytykowska, A. M. & Smillie, L. D. (2009). Trait anxiety and categorization in experimental paradigms. In M. Fajkowska and B. Szymura (Eds.), Anxiety: Genesis, mechanisms, and functions. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar. [In Polish]
Yeo, G., Sorbello, T., Koy, A., & Smillie, L. D. (2008). Goal orientation profiles and task performance growth trajectories. Motivation and Emotion, 32, 296-309.
Jackson, C. J. & Smillie, L. D. (2008). How introspections concerning Cloninger's concepts of temperament and character influence Eysenckian personality structure. Current Psychology, 27, 257-276.
Cooper, A. J., Smillie, L. D., & Jackson, C. J. (2008). A trait conceptualisation of reward-reactivity: Psychometric properties of the Appetitive Motivation Scale (AMS). Journal of Individual Differences, 29, 168-180.
Smillie, L. D. (2008). The conceptualisation, measurement, and scope of reinforcement sensitivity in the context of a neuroscience of personality. European Journal of Personality, 22, 411-425. [response to peer commentary]
Smillie, L. D. (2008). What is reinforcement sensitivity? Neuroscience paradigms for approach-avoidance process theories of personality. European Journal of Personality, 22, 359-384. [target paper with open peer commentary]
Pickering, A. D. & Smillie, L. D. (2008). The Behavioural Activation System: Challenges and opportunities. In P. J. Corr (Ed.), The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of personality. Cambridge University Press.
Smillie, L. D., Dalgleish, L. I., & Jackson, C. J. (2007). Distinguishing between learning and motivation in behavioural tests of the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of personality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 476-489.
Smillie, L. D., Yeo, G. B., Furnham, A. F., & Jackson, C. J. (2006). Benefits of all work and no play: The relationship between neuroticism and performance as a function of resource allocation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 139-155.
Smillie, L. D., Pickering, A. D., & Jackson, C. J. (2006). The new Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: Implications for psychometric measurement. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 320-335.
Smillie, L. D., Jackson, C. J., & Dalgleish, L. I. (2006). Conceptual distinctions among Carver and White’s (1994) BAS scales: A reward-reactivity versus trait impulsivity perspective. Personality and Individual Differences, 40, 1039-1050.
Smillie, L. D. & Jackson, C. J. (2006). Functional Impulsivity and Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory. Journal of Personality, 74, 47-83.
Smillie, L. D. & Jackson, C. J. (2005). The Appetitive Motivation Scale and other BAS measures in the prediction of approach and active avoidance. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 981-994.
Jackson, C. J. & Smillie, L. D. (2004). Appetitive Motivation predicts the majority of personality and an ability measure: A comparison of BAS measures and a re-evaluation of the importance of RST. Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 1627-1636.