Advances in mobile technology and the ubiquity of the smartphone have allowed a deeper
understanding of aspects of personality than is possible with traditional self-report methods …

People's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can vary a great deal over situations and time.
Such dynamic patterns are difficult to assess using traditional survey-and lab-based …

Research interest in personality dynamics over time is rapidly growing. Passive personality
assessment via mobile sensors offers an intriguing new approach for measuring a wide …

This study provides evidence that personality can be reliably predicted from activity data
collected through mobile phone sensors. Employing a set of well informed indicators …

Smartphones are pervasive companions to many people as they go about their daily lives. In
addition, they are equipped with a wide array of sensors making it possible to measure …

People around the world own digital media devices that mediate and are in close proximity
to their daily behaviours and situational contexts. These devices can be harnessed as …

Smartphones promise great potential for personality science to study people's everyday life
behaviours. Even though personality psychologists have become increasingly interested in …

Mobile and wearable devices are equipped with an array of embedded digital sensors that
produce continuous steams of digital trace data. These now effectively ubiquitous digital …

The aim of this chapter is to introduce and describe how digital technologies, in particular
smartphones, can be used in research in two areas, namely (i) to conduct personality …

The understanding, quantification and evaluation of individual differences in behavior,
feelings and thoughts have always been central topics in psychological science. An …