Michael Ashton

Professor, Ph.D. (Western)

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Office: MC B323
905 688 5550 x3993
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  • Structure of personality characteristics
  • Personality assessment by self-report and observer report
  • Evolutionary adaptive function of personality variation
  • Personality as a predictor of life outcomes
  • Structure and personality correlates of mental abilities
  • Other psychological characteristics (religious, political, sexual, occupational)

Ashton, M.C. (2023). Individual Differences and Personality (4th ed.). San Diego: Academic Press.

Lee, K., & Ashton, M.C. (2012). The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People Are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive – And Why It Matters For Everyone. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

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I am not actively seeking new graduate students for the coming academic year.

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