Brent Roberts

{{short description|American psychologist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Brent Roberts | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Social psychology<br>Personality psychology | workplaces = University of Tulsa<br>University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley | thesis_title = A Longitudinal Study of the Reciprocal Relation Between Women's Personality and Occupational Experience | thesis_url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oF9MAQAAMAAJ | thesis_year = 1994 | doctoral_advisor = Ravenna Helson | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Conscientiousness<br>Narcissism | influences = | influenced = | awards = 1994 J. S. Tanaka Dissertation Award<br>2007 Diener Award in Personality Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Brent Walter Roberts''' is an American social and personality psychologist who is professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is known for his research on personality traits, especially conscientiousness<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/conscientiousness-predicts-success-2014-4 |title=This Personality Trait Predicts Success |last=Baer |first=Drake |date=2014-04-30 |website=Business Insider |access-date=2018-02-22}}</ref> and narcissism.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/13/research-says-college-students-no-more-narcissistic-previous-generations-age |title=Research says college students no more narcissistic than previous generations at that age |last=Roll |first=Nick |date=2017-10-13 |website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en |access-date=2018-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171115-millenials-are-the-most-narcissistic-generation-not-so-fast |title=Millennials are narcissistic? The evidence is not so simple |last=Jarrett |first=Christian |date=2017-11-15 |website=BBC Future |language=en |access-date=2018-02-22}}</ref> He was the president of the Association for Research in Personality, and was named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2016 and 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.psychology.illinois.edu/people/bwrobrts |title=Brent W. Roberts |website=www.psychology.illinois.edu |language=en |access-date=2018-02-22}}</ref> In 2014 he presented the Paul B. Baltes Lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://psychology.illinois.edu/directory/profile/bwrobrts Faculty page] *{{Google Scholar id|daEwk7YAAAAJ}} {{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Brent Walter}} Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni Category:Living people Category:University of Tulsa faculty Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Category:American social psychologists Category:Personality psychologists Category:Year of birth missing (living people)