As professors, we often serve in many different roles: teacher, researcher, mentor, administrator, program director. With so many jobs, how do we define ourselves? With which role do we most identify? In this episode, we talk about our academic identities, how they have changed over time, and how our identities might shape other people's perceptions of us.

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Twila Wingrove @twilawingrove

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Chris Holden @profcjholden

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Links:

• How replicable are links between personality traits and consequential life outcomes? — Soto, C. J. (2019). How replicable are links between personality traits and consequential life outcomes? The Life Outcomes Of Personality Replication Project. Psychological Science, 30, 711-727.
• The Life Outcomes Of Personality Replication Project — The Life Outcomes Of Personality Replication (LOOPR) Project was conducted to estimate the replicability of the personality-outcome literature. For this project, we conducted preregistered, high-powered replications of 78 previously published associations between the Big Five personality traits and consequential life outcomes.