Publications

Journal Articles

2026

Beck, E. D., Phan, L. V., Modersitzki, N., *Lee, C. J., *Long, E. U., *Nissen, A. T., & Lewis, C. (2026). Personality is a person-specific complex, nonlinear dynamic system. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. [PDF]

Rauthmann, J., Beck, E. D., *Lee, C., Phan, L. V., & Renner, K.-H. (2026). Holes in whole trait theory: Fundamental issues impede its full potential. European Journal of Personality.

*Long, E. U., Lewis, C. T., & Beck, E. D. (2026). From whole traits to whole persons: A bottom-up approach to personality explanation. European Journal of Personality.

Beck, E. D., Willroth, E. C., Delius, J. A. M., Bennett, D. A., Barnes, L. L., James, B. D., Lipton, R. B., Katz, M., Hassing, L. B., Huisman, M., Graham, E. K., & Mroczek, D. K. (2026). A taxonomy of data synthesis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [PDF]

Aragones, S. D., Beck, E. D., & Ferrer, E. (2026). A state space model of daily dynamics with moderation effects from qualitative text data. Multivariate Behavioral Research.

Yoneda, T., Jackson, K. L., Beam, C., Beck, E. D., Pfund, G., Pieramici, L., Garner, K. M., Luo, J., Antonoplis, S., Van Bogart, K., Hauner, K., Turiano, N. A., O’Súilleabháin, P., Barnes, L., Bennett, D. A., Terrera, G. M., Mroczek, D. K., James, B. D., Steptoe, A., Ong, A. D., & Graham, E. K. (2026). Is my loneliness killing me? Effects of loneliness and social isolation transitions between cognitive status categories and death. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Shao, S., Beck, E. D., Hawks, Z., Van Bogart, K., Graham, E. K., and Ong, A. (2026). Loneliness modulates social threat detection in daily life. Nature Communications Psychology. [PDF]

*Batra, R., Beck, E. D., Chen, M., and Ferrer, E. (2026). Simde app: Simulating and visualizing formal theories using differential equations. Manuscript under revision, Psychological Methods. [PDF]

2025

*Lee, C. and Beck, E. D. (2025). Momentary structures of personality: Idiographic facet profiles and time-varying networks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance Online Publication. [PDF]

Beck, E. D. and Rhemtulla, M. (2025). Modeling and interpretation of personality and individual differences constructs. Journal of Research in Personality. [PDF]

*Nissen, A. T. and Beck, E. D. (2025). The joy is mine: An idiographic approach to studying well-being. Social Psychological and Personality Compass. 19:e70058. [PDF]

*Warfel, E., Sutin, A., Beck, E. D., and Robins, R. W. (2025). Perplexing patterns of personality co-development: Findings from a 17-year longitudinal study of Mexican-origin families. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance Online Publication. [PDF]

*Nissen, A. and Beck, E. D. (2025). Linking person-specific network parameters to between-person change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [PDF]

Beck, E. D., Cheung, F., Thapa, S., and Jackson, J. J. (2025). A network approach to top down and bottom life satisfaction. Nature Human Behaviour. [PDF]

Willroth, E. C., Graham, E. K., Beck, E. D., and Mroczek, D. K. (2025). Personality change across the lifespan as a predictor of mortality risk in 11 international samples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 128(2):392–409. [PDF]

*Ma, W., Beck, E. D., and Robins, R. W. (in press). Stability and change in narcissism from adolescence to emerging adulthood: Findings from a longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [PDF]

Ong, A. D., Cintron, D. W., Yoneda, T., Beck, E. D., Jackson, K., Luo, J., Mroczek, D. K., Steptoe, A., and Graham, E. K. (2025). Social asymmetry and physical health in the United States and Japan. Health Psychology. 44(5):509–517. [PDF]

2024

Kuper, N., Andresen, P. K., Beck, E. D., Costantini, G., Hamaker, E. L., Wright, A. G. C., and Zimmermann, J. (2024). From persons to general principles: Methodological decisions for idiographic and nomothetic reserach. European Journal of Personality. 08902070241278020. [PDF]

*Nissen, A. T. and Beck, E. D. (2024). Contextualizing life experiences is necessary for contextualizing personality development. European Journal of Personality. [PDF]

Saqr, M., Cheng, R., Beck, E. D., and López-Pernas, S. (2024). Idiographic artificial intelligence to explain students’ self-regulation: Toward precision education. Learning and Individual Differences. 114:102499. [PDF]

Graham, E. K., Beck, E. D., Ong, A., Jackson, K., Willroth, E. C., and Mroczek, D. K. (2024). Advancing the study of loneliness and health in older adults through the use of integrative data analysis. Psychological Science, 35(6):579–596. PMID: 38687352. [PDF]

Hawks, Z., Beck, E. D., Jung, L., Fonseca, L. M., Sliwinski, M., Weinstock, R. S., Grinspoon, E., Xu, I., Strong, R. W., Singh, S., et al. (2024). Dynamic associations between glucose and ecological momentary cognition in type 1 diabetes. Nature Digital Medicine. 7(1):59. [PDF]

Ong, A. D., Graham, E. K., Jackson, K., Yoneda, T., Cintron, D. W., Atherton, O. E., Luo, J., Willroth, E. C., Beck, E. D., Mroczek, D. K., and Steptoe, A. (2024). Associations between generativity and social asymmetry across the adult lifespan in japan. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. 79(2), 1-6. Editor’s Choice [PDF]

Beck, E. D., Yoneda, T., James, B., Bennett, D. A., Hassenstab, J., Katz, M. J., Lipton, R. B., Morris, J., Mroczek, D. K., and Graham, E. K. (2023). Personality predictors of dementia diagnosis and neuropathological burden: An individual participant data meta-analysis. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 20(3):1497–1514. PMID: 38018701. Top 10% of Downloads in 2024. [PDF]

2023

Matz, S., Beck, E. D., Atherton, O. E., White, M., Bogg, T., Rauthmann, J., and Mroczek, D. K. (2023). Personality Science in the Digital Age: The Promises and Challenges of Psychological Targeting for Personalized Behavior-Change Interventions at Scale. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 0(0). [PDF]

Hawks, Z. W., Strong, R., Jung, L., Beck, E. D., Passell, E., Grinspoon, E., Sliwinski, M., and Germine, L. (2023). Accurate prediction of cognitive reaction time from intraindividual, age, and circadian variables. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. [PDF]

Beck, E. D. and Jackson, J. J. (2023). Idiographic prediction of loneliness and procrastination. Psychological Science. 33(10), 1767–1782. [PDF]

Beck, E. D., Jackson, J. J., and Condon, D. M. (2023). Interindividual differences in personality network structure. European Journal of Personality. [PDF]

2022

*Beck, E. D., *Workman, C. I., and *Christensen, A. P. (2022). CRediT where credit is due: A comment on Leising et al., (2022). Personality Science. [PDF]

Beck, E. D. and Jackson, J. J. (2022a). A mega-analysis of personality prediction: Robustness and boundary conditions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(3):523–553. [PDF]

Beck, E. D. and Jackson, J. J. (2022b). Detecting idiographic personality change. Journal of Personality Assessment, pages 1–17. Walter Klopfer Award for Best Paper 2023. [PDF]

2021

Bollich-Ziegler, K. L., Beck, E. D., Hill, P., and Jackson, J. J. (2021). Do correctional facilities correct our youth?: Effects of incarceration and court-ordered community service on personality development. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121:894–913. [PDF]

*Jayawickreme, E., *Fleeson, W., *Beck, E. D., *Baumert, A., and *Adler, J. (2021). Personality dynamics. Personality Science. [PDF]

Yoneda, T., Marroig, A., Graham, E. K., Willroth, E. C., Watermeyer, T., Beck, E. D., Zelinski, E. M., Reynolds, C. A., Pedersen, N. L., Hofer, S. M., Mroczek, D. K., and Muniz-Terrera, G. (2022). Personality predictors of cognitive dispersion: A coordinated analysis of data from seven international studies of older adults. Neuropsychology, 36(2):103–115. [PDF]

Malle, B. F., Austerweil, J. L., Chi, V. B., Kennet, Y. N., Beck, E. D., Thapa, S., and Allaham, M. (2021). Cognitive properties of norm representations. Cog Sci Proceedings. [PDF]

Beck, E. D. and Jackson, J. J. (2021b). Idiographic personality coherence: A quasi experimental longitudinal ESM study. European Journal of Personality, 0:08902070211017746. [PDF]

Saef, R., Beck, E. D., and Jackson, J. J. (2021). Examining the dynamic nature of worker subjective well-being: The application of idiographic approaches. Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being, 19:179–200. [PDF]

Hill, P. L., Beck, E. D., and Jackson, J. J. (2021). Maintaining sense of purpose following health adversity in older adulthood: A propensity score matching examination. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76:1574–1579. [PDF]

Jackson, J. J. and Beck, E. D. (2021a). Using idiographic models to distinguish personality and psychopathology. Journal of Personality, 0:1–18. [PDF]

Jackson, J. J. and Beck, E. D. (2021b). Personality development beyond the mean: Do life events shape personality variability, structure, and ipsative continuity? The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(1):20–30. [PDF]

Frumkin, M. R., Piccirillo, M. L., Beck, E. D., Grossman, J. T., and Rodebaugh, T. L. (2021). Feasibility and utility of idiographic models in the clinic: a pilot study. Psychotherapy Research, 31(4):520–534. [PDF]

2020

Beck, E. D. and Jackson, J. J. (2020a). Idiographic traits: A return to Allportian approaches to personality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(3):301–308. [PDF]

Beck, E. D. and Jackson, J. J. (2020b). Consistency and change in idiographic personality: A longitudinal ESM network study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(5):1080–1100. [PDF]

2019

Piccirillo, M. L., Beck, E. D., and Rodebaugh, T. L. (2019). A clinician’s primer for idiographic research: considerations and recommendations. Behavior Therapy, 50(5):938–951. [PDF] https://psyarxiv.com/hc5ps/download

Nosek, B. A., Beck, E. D., Campbell, L., Flake, J. K., Hardwicke, T., Mellor, D., and Vazire, S. (2019). Preregistation is hard, and worthwhile. Trends in Cognitive Science. [PDF]

2017

Beck, E. D. and Jackson, J. J. (2017). The search for a bridge: Idiographic personality networks. European Journal of Personality, 31:530–532. [PDF]

Book Chapters

Saqr, M., Beck, E. D., and López-Pernas, S. (2023). Psychological networks: A modern approach to analysis of learning and complex learning processes. In Apiola, M., López-Pernas, S., and Saqr, M., editors, Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research. Springer. [PDF]

Beck, E. D. and Thapa, S. (2023). Dynamic systems analysis. In Mobile Sensing in Psychology: Methods and Applications. Guillford Press. [PDF]

Beck, E. D. and Jackson, J. J. (2021d). Network approaches to representing and understanding psychological dynamics. In Wood, D., Read, S., Harms, P., and Slaughter, A., editors, Measuring and Modeling the Person and Situation. Elsevier, 1st edition. [PDF]

Beck, E. D. and Jackson, J. J. (2021c). Within-person variability. In Rauthmann, J. F., editor, The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes, pages 75–100. Academic Press. [PDF]

Jackson, J. J., Beck, E. D., and Mike, A. (2021). Interventions to change personality. In John, O. P. and Robins, R., editors, The Handbook of Personality, pages 793–805. The Guilford Press, 4th edition. [PDF]

Jackson, J. J. and Beck, E. D. (2020). Using ambulatory assessments to understand personality-health associations. In Personality and Healthy Aging in Adulthood, pages 93–110. Springer. [PDF]

Cervone, D. and Beck, E. D. (2020). Theoretical and methodological issues in personality research: General concerns and considerations. In Carducci, B. J., editor, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. 1st edition.

Thapa, S., Beck, E. D., and Tay, L. (2019). Affect and personality in the workplace. In Yang, L.-Q., Cropanzano, R., Daus, C., and Martinez-Tur, V., editors, Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect. Cambridge, 1st edition. [PDF]

Under Review

Beck, E. D., *Nissen, A. T., **Graham, E. K., and **Mroczek, D. K. (2026). Personality prediction from moments to lifetimes. Manuscript under review, Current Directions in Psychological Sciences.

Beck, E. D., **Warfel, E., **Ma, W., Sutin, A., and Robins, R. W. (2024). Associations between personality trajectories, dementia risk factors, and midlife cognitive function: Evidence from a 17-year longitudinal study of Mexican-origin adults. Revision Submitted. European Journal of Personality.

*Büchner, A., Götz, F. M., Beck, E. D., Li, L. S., Sun, J., Hardin, B., and Horstmann, K. T. (2025). Capturing the temporal dynamics of personality in daily life: The personality and contextualized experiences (PACE) study. Manuscript under revision, Personality Science. [PDF]

Chen, M., Batra, R., Beck, E. D., and Ferrer, E. (2024). Translating psychological theories into testable differential equation models: Guidelines for model building. Manuscript under review, Multivariate Behavioral Research. [PDF]

*Lee, C. and Beck, E. D. (2024). Momentary structures of personality: Idiographic facet profiles and time-varying networks. Manuscript under review. [PDF]

*Ma, W., Beck, E. D., and Robins, R. W. (2026). Family environment in adolescence as predictors of narcissism in emerging adulthood. Manuscript under revision, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

*Ma, W., *Nissen, A. T., Hawks, Z. W., Graham, Eileen, K., Mroczek, D. K., and Beck, E. D. (2025). Mometary associations between personality states and ambulatory cognitive function. Manuscript under revision, Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Science/ [PDF]

*Ma, W., Robins, R. W., Springstein, T., and Beck, E. D. (2026). Between- and within-person associations of narcissism and emotion regulation strategy use. Manuscript under review.

*Nissen, A., Johal, S., and Beck, E. D (2025). Linking person-specific network parameters to between-person change. Manuscript under review. [PDF]

Springstein, T., *Batra, R., and Beck, E. D. (2026). Emotion regulation as an idiographic dynamic system: Individual differences in success of goal-directed regulation in daily life. Manuscript under revision, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [PDF]

*Warfel, E., Sutin, A., Beck, E. D., and Robins, R. W. (2026). Co-development of child temperament with parent personality: Findings from a longitudinal study of Mexican-origin families. Manuscript under review. [PDF]