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The stability of behavior: I. On predicting most of the people much of the time.

Epstein, Seymour·1979·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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  • Daily process methods can focus diary reports on a limited time frame, reducing the time between an experience and its report and thus reducing measurement error variance.

    “In contrast to scales that require respondents to recall their symptoms and emotional experiences over periods ranging from days to weeks, daily process methods can focus diary reports on a more limited time frame, from the past few moments to a single day, reducing the time between an experience and the report of that experience and thus the error variance of the measure (Epstein, 1979).”
  • Epstein [1979] and a subsequent literature present evidence against nonseparability and in favor of an enduring trait that is common across situations.

    “Epstein [1979] and a subsequent literature present evidence against nonseparability and in favor of an”

    From Personality Psychology and Economics (2011) · cites this paper as Epstein [1979]

  • Epstein establishes consistency across different types of measures.

    “He also establishes consistency (high levels of correlation) across the different types of measures.”

    From Personality Psychology and Economics (2011) · cites this paper as Epstein [1979]

  • Epstein [1979] presents empirical evidence that averaging over tasks and situations at a point in time, persons act predictably with high reliability (R^2 of 0.6-0.8) of average behavior across situations.

    “In four different studies, he presents compelling empirical evidence that, averaging over tasks and situations at a point in time, persons act in a predictable fashion with a high level of reliability ( 2 R of 0.6-0.8) of average behavior (”

    From Personality Psychology and Economics (2011) · cites this paper as Epstein [1979]

  • Discount rates appear to vary inversely with the size of reward and vary with the type of reward offered.

    “Further, discount rates appear to vary inversely with the size of reward and vary with the type of reward offered.”

    From Personality Psychology and Economics (2011) · cites this paper as [172]

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Authors
Epstein, S.
Affiliations
University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
Corresponding author
Epstein, Seymour
Venue
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Published
1979-07
Volume
37
Issue
7
Pages
1097-1126
ISSN
  • 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1315
OpenAlex
W2021461578
Cited by
1,468
References
3
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 35 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 36 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 33 · 2014: 41 · 2013: 53 · 2012: 54
FWCI
57.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords
behavioral stability, personality traits, behavior prediction

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