Antonio Terracciano

Antonio Terracciano

Antonio Terracciano is a researcher and co-author of the 2005 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology study of observer-rated personality traits in 50 cultures.

Who they are

The work of Antonio Terracciano reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to The Five-Factor Model.

Key papers

McCrae, R. R., Terracciano, A., & 78 Members of the Personality Profiles of Cultures Project. (2005). Universal features of personality traits from the observer's perspective: Data from 50 cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(3), 547-561. What it reports: College students in 50 cultures rated an adult or college-aged person they knew on a standard inventory. The structure found in American self-reports was clearly replicated in most cultures and recognisable in all.

Key ideas

The Five-Factor Model: The mainstream structural model of personality, which describes people on five continuous dimensions rather than sorting them into kinds: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

Sources

  1. McCrae, R. R., Terracciano, A., & 78 Members of the Personality Profiles of Cultures Project. (2005). Universal features of personality traits from the observer's perspective: Data from 50 cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(3), 547-561.