Early Life and Educational Background
Jackson was born in 1963 in Northampton, UK. After beginning a psychology undergraduate degree in 1981 at the University of Birmingham, he rapidly realized that his ambition was to work at a university. He earned his MPhil. and Ph.D. in psychology and statistics from the University of Coventry in the UK. This was a formative time for him as he completed both with little or no supervisory assistance.
Professional Career
Jackson has held positions in psychology departments at London Guildhall University, UK, and University of Surrey, UK. In 2000, Jackson moved to Australia and took a job in psychology at the University of Queensland. In 2008, he took a professorship in the School of Management at the University of New South Wales. He was head of school from 2012 to 2015.
He has authored more than 110 publications during his career which have appeared in outlets such as the Psychological Bulletin (in press), Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Applied...
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Ciarrochi, J., Parker, P., Sahdra, S., Marshall, S., Jackson, C., Gloster, A., & Heaven, P. (2016). The development of compulsive internet use and mental health: A four year study of adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 5, 272–283. doi:10.1037/dev0000070.
Collins, M., & Jackson, C. J. (2015). A process model of self regulation and leadership: How attentional resource capacity and negative emotion influence constructive and destructive leadership. Leadership Quarterly, 26, 386–401.
Collins, M., Jackson, C., Walker, B., O’Connor, P., & Gardiner, E. (in press). Integrating the context-appropriate balanced attention model and reinforcement sensitivity theory: Towards a domain-general personality process model. Psychological Bulletin.
Smillie, L. D., Pickering, A. D., & Jackson, C. J. (2006). The new RST: Recent revisions to reinforcement sensitivity theory, and implications for psychometric measurement. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 320–335.
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Jackson, C. (2016). Jackson, Chris. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_223-1
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