Peter J. Rentfrow

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Jason Rentfrow

Peter Jason Rentfrow is professor of personality and individual differences in the Psychology Department at Cambridge University, where he directs the Social Dynamics Research Center. He is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Alan Turing Institute. [1]

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Early life and education

Rentfrow was born in Louisiana and later moved to Texas, where he graduated from Kingwood High School. He studied psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his BA in 1998 and PhD in 2004 under the supervision of Samuel D. Gosling, William B. Swann, and James W. Pennebaker. [2] Rentfrow joined the faculty of the Psychology Department at Cambridge University in 2005.

Research

Rentfrow's research interests include geographical psychology, music psychology, and psychological assessment. His research seeks to understand the ways in which personality traits interact with the environment and become expressed in everyday life.

Geographical psychology

Rentfrow's research in geographical psychology demonstrates that social influence, ecological influence, and selective migration are key mechanisms that contribute to the spatial clustering of psychological characteristics. [3]

Personal tastes and preferences

His work in this area seeks to understand the degree to which personal preferences reflect and effectively communicate information about people’s psychological characteristics. [4] [5] [6] [7]

Psychological and behavioral assessment

In collaboration with Samuel D. Gosling, he developed the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, [8] a brief measure of the Big Five personality traits. Also with Gosling, he developed the Short Test of Musical Preferences, [5] an individual difference measure designed to assess musical preferences. With Lewis R. Goldberg and Daniel J. Levitin, he developed an audio-based measure of musical preferences in which respondents report their effective reactions to excerpts of various pieces of music. [4] [9] In addition to traditional self-report measures, Rentfrow has collaborated with computer scientist Cecilia Mascolo to develop a mobile sensing platform for measuring behavior and psychological states unobtrusively. [10]

Honours

Rentfrow is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Alan Turing Institute. [1]

He edited Geographical Psychology, which reviews the state of the science on the ways in which psychological traits vary across geographic regions. With Daniel J. Levitin, he co-edited Foundations in Music Psychology, which reviews the state of the science on the neurological, cognitive, and social psychological bases of musical experiences. Rentfrow has served as a member of the senior editorial team for five psychology journals, including Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Social Psychological and Personality Science. [1]

Publications

Books

Most-cited peer-reviewed papers

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rentfrow, Dr Jason (April 5, 2012). "Dr Jason Rentfrow". www.psychol.cam.ac.uk.
  2. ↑ Peter Jason Rentfrow (2004). Message in a ballad : personality judgements [sic] based on music preferences (Thesis). William B Swann, Samuel D Gosling (Supervisors). University of Texas at Austin. OCLC   69019693.
  3. ↑ Rentfrow, Peter J.; Jokela, Markus (2016-12-01). "Geographical Psychology: The Spatial Organization of Psychological Phenomena" . Current Directions in Psychological Science. 25 (6): 393–398. doi:10.1177/0963721416658446. ISSN   0963-7214. S2CID   151745822.
  4. 1 2 Rentfrow, P. J.; Goldberg, L. R.; Levitin, D. J. (2011). "The structure of musical preferences: A five-factor model". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 100 (6): 1139–1157. doi:10.1037/a0022406. PMC   3138530 . PMID   21299309.
  5. 1 2 Rentfrow, P. J.; Gosling, S. D. (2003). "The do re mi's of everyday life: The structure and personality correlates of music preferences" . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 84 (6): 1236–1256. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.84.6.1236. PMID   12793587 . Retrieved 2021-08-13.
  6. ↑ Rentfrow, Peter J.; Gosling, Samuel D. (2006-03-01). "Message in a Ballad: The Role of Music Preferences in Interpersonal Perception" . Psychological Science. 17 (3): 236–242. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01691.x. ISSN   0956-7976. PMID   16507064. S2CID   16271901.
  7. ↑ Rentfrow, Peter J. (2012). "The Role of Music in Everyday Life: Current Directions in the Social Psychology of Music" . Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 6 (5): 402–416. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2012.00434.x. ISSN   1751-9004.
  8. ↑ Gosling, Samuel D.; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Swann, William B. (2003-12-01). "A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains" . Journal of Research in Personality. 37 (6): 504–528. doi:10.1016/S0092-6566(03)00046-1. ISSN   0092-6566. S2CID   7147133.
  9. ↑ Rentfrow, Peter J.; Goldberg, Lewis R.; Stillwell, David J.; Kosinski, Michal; Gosling, Samuel D.; Levitin, Daniel J. (2012-12-01). "The Song Remains the Same: A Replication and Extension of the MUSIC Model". Music Perception. 30 (2): 161–185. doi:10.1525/mp.2012.30.2.161. ISSN   0730-7829. PMC   4016970 . PMID   24825945.
  10. ↑ Lathia, Neal; Pejovic, Veljko; Rachuri, Kiran K.; Mascolo, Cecilia; Musolesi, Mirco; Rentfrow, Peter J. (July 2013). "Smartphones for Large-Scale Behavior Change Interventions". IEEE Pervasive Computing. 12 (3): 66–73. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2013.56. ISSN   1536-1268. S2CID   14134567.
  11. 1 2 Rentfrow, Peter J (September 27, 2014). Geographical psychology: exploring the interaction of environment and behavior. American Psychological Association. ISBN   9781433815393. OCLC   1137359444.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 Peter J. Rentfrow publications indexed by Google Scholar, Accessed Sept 19. 2021
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