Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment (SAPA)

Personality, Motivation, and Cognition Laboratory -- Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment (SAPA)

Scientific objectives:

To gain an increased understanding of the ways in which personality and situational determinants of motivation combine to influence motivational states, and how these motivational states in turn affect cognitive processes to determine cognitive performance.
To understand the structure of human personality at multiple levels of analysis, including within individual, between individual, and between self selected aggregates of individuals.

Methods:

Experimental studies of the effect of various motivational manipulations on cognitive performance
Web based data collection using Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment (SAPA) techniques to examine the structure of large number of temperament, ability, and interest items from people around the world.
Using other telemetric techniques to examine the structure of affect, cognition and desire as they relate to behavior within individuals across time.
Development of open source programs and materials to facilitate these goals.

William Revelle, David M. Condon, Joshua Wilt, Jason A. French, Ashley Brown and Lorien G. Elleman (in prep) Web and phone based data collection using planned missing designs. To appear in the Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods, 2nd Edition by Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee, Grant Blank. (pdf of draft)
Condon, D. M. and Revelle, W. (2014). The International Cognitive Ability Resource: Development and initial validation of a public domain measure Intelligence, 43:52–64
Revelle, W., Wilt, J., & Rosenthal, A. (2010) Individual differences in cognition: New methods for examining the personality-cognition link. in Aleksandra Gruszka, Gerald Matthews, and Blazej Szymura (editors): Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition: Attention, Memory and Executive Control (pdf of draft)