Dr Luke D. Smillie BA PhD CPsychol
Position held:
Senior Lecturer
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7874
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7919 7873
Email:
l.smillie (@gold.ac.uk)
Website:
http://www.paidresearch.org
Room 200/4 Whitehead Building,
Department of Psychology,
Goldsmiths, University of London,
New Cross, SE14 6NW
Individual differences, with a particular focus on a) biologically-informed perspectives on personality (especially Extraversion and Impulsivity-related traits), and b) individual differences in motivation, emotion and cognition, c) implications (e.g., human performance, psychopathology).
Teaching
Advanced Statistics; Personality and Psychopathology
Research interests
1) Biologically informed perspectives on personality
My primary research attempts to explain the causes of personality variation. Much of this has been directed towards the testing and refinement (e.g., Smillie et al., 2006, PSPR; Smillie et al., 2007, PSPB) of a family of theories which suggest that individual differences in extraversion, or perhaps impulsivity, are related to differential sensitivity to rewards (see Pickering & Smillie, 2008). My most recent work has combined molecular genetics, Event Related Potentials, and category-learning paradigms in an attempt to provide genetic, neural and behavioural markers of reward-sensitivity, and evaluate their role in personality variation (British Academy funded project; see Smillie, 2008, EJP; Smillie et al., 2010, NL; Smillie et al., in press, SCAN).
2) Motivation, emotion and cognition
Personality refers to coherent between-person variation in affective, behavioural/motivational and cognitive processes. My ongoing research is concerned with the explanation of these coherent individual differences at multiple levels of analysis and in various contexts. Some current project include a) structure and component processes of goal orientations (e.g., Yeo et al., 2008, M&E); b) the role of personality and other individual differences in cognitive control (e.g., flexible adaptation to change; Smillie et al., 2009, BJP); c) personality moderators of affective processes (e.g., in mood induction; Smillie, Wilt, Cooper & Revelle, in progress).
3) Implications
In addition to the causes of personality and related individual differences I am interested in the consequences they have for typical and atypical real-world behaviour. These include both cognitive and motivational influences on job and task performance (e.g., Smillie et al., 2006, JAP; Yeo et al., 2008, M&E), and the relevance of personality variables to clinical disorders (Smillie et al., 2009, CP).
Website: www.paidresearch.org
I am developing an online resource for Personality and Individual Differences Research (www.paidresearch.org). At present the website provides a brief personality test and gives the user some feedback on their personality profile. I will soon be developing this website into a dynamic resource which will provide education and news relating to personality, enable users to complete a range of tests or elect to participate in experiments, and allow researchers from around the world to download datasets containing a range of self-report, behavioural, and genetic variables.
Selected publications
Smillie, Luke D., Cooper, Andrew, Wilt, Joshua and Revelle, William. 2012. Do Extraverts Get More Bang for the Buck? Refining the Affective-Reactivity Hypothesis of Extraversion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, XXX-XXX. [Article]
Guenole, Nigel, Cockerill, T, Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas and Smillie, Luke D.. 2011. Evidence for the validity of dimensions in the presence of rater source factors. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 4, pp. 211-237. [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Cooper, Andrew and Pickering, Alan. 2011. Individual differences in reward-prediction-error: extraversion and feedback-related negativity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(5), pp. 646-652. ISSN 1749-5016 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Cooper, Andrew, Tharp, Ian and Pelling, Emma L.. 2010. Individual differences in cognitive control: the role of psychoticism and working memory in set-shifting. British Journal of Psychology, 100(4), pp. 629-643. ISSN 00071269 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Cooper, Andrew and Pickering, Alan. 2010. Individual differences in reward-prediction-error: Extraversion and feedback-related negativity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, ISSN 1749-5016 [Article]
Perkins, Adam, Cooper, Andrew, Abdellal, Maura, Smillie, Luke D. and Corr, Philip. 2010. Personality and defensive reactions: fear, trait anxiety and threat magnification. Journal Of Personality, 78(3), pp. 1071-1090. [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Cooper, Andrew, Proitsi, Petroula, Powell, John F. and Pickering, Alan. 2010. Variation in DRD2 dopamine gene predicts extraverted personality. Neuroscience Letters, 468(3), pp. 234-237. ISSN 03043940 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D. and Gökçen, Elif. 2010. Caffeine enhances working memory for extraverts. Biological Psychology, 85(3), pp. 496-498. ISSN 03010511 [Article]
Cooper, Andrew, Smillie, Luke D. and Corr, Philip J.. 2010. A confirmatory factor analysis of the Mini-IPIP five-factor model personality scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 48(5), pp. 688-691. ISSN 01918869 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Yeo, Gillian B. and Lang, Katie L.. 2009. Impulsiveness and resource allocation: Testing Humphreys and Revelle’s (1984) explanation of impulsive personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(6), pp. 1083-1086. ISSN 00926566 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Bhairo, Yohan, Gray, Joana, Gunasinghe, Cerisse, Elkin, Amanda, McGuffin, Peter and Farmer, Ane. 2009. Personality and the bipolar spectrum: normative and classification data for the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire–Revised. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 50(1), pp. 48-53. ISSN 0010440X [Article]
Smillie, Luke D.. 2008. What is reinforcement sensitivity? Neuroscience paradigms for approach-avoidance process theories of personality. European Journal of Personality, 22(5), pp. 359-384. ISSN 08902070 [Article]
Pickering, Alan and Smillie, Luke D.. 2008. The behavioural activation system: Challenges and opportunities. In: Philip J. Corr, ed. The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120-153. ISBN 9780521617369 [Book Section]
Cooper, Andrew, Smillie, Luke D. and Jackson, Chris J.. 2008. A trait conceptualization of reward-reactivity. Journal of Individual Differences, 29(3), pp. 168-180. ISSN 1614-0001 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Dalgleish, L. and Jackson, C.. 2007. Distinguishing between learning and motivation in behavioral tests of the reinforcement sensitivity theory of personality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(4), pp. 476-89. ISSN 01461672 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Pickering, Alan and Jackson, Chris J.. 2006. The new reinforcement sensitivity theory: Implications for personality measurement. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10(4), pp. 320-335. ISSN 10888683 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Furnham, A., Jackson, C. and Yeo, G.. 2006. Benefits of all work and no play: The relationship between neuroticism and performance as a function of resource allocation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(1), pp. 139-155. ISSN 00219010 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D. and Jackson, C.. 2006. Functional Impulsivity and Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory. Journal of Personality, 74(1), pp. 47-83. ISSN 00223506 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D. and Jackson, Chris J.. 2005. The appetitive motivation scale and other BAS measures in the prediction of Approach and Active Avoidance. Personality and Individual Differences, 38(4), pp. 981-994. ISSN 01918869 [Article]