is a professor of psychology at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. He is a social scientist trained in personality psychology.
Early Life and Educational Background
Lanning was born in Oakland on October 18, 1956, as one of five siblings: an older brother Ian would volunteer for service in Vietnam and another, Stan, would become a mathematician and computer scientist known for his development of the Netflix Prize. Two younger sisters, Lisa and Valentina, achieved their own successes despite growing up in a family and at a time in which there was lip service about feminism, but in which the females nonetheless served traditional domestic roles. There was a similar tension between actions and words on issues of race: despite the fact that Oakland (though not their neighborhood) was ethnically diverse, and despite the fact that Lanning’s mother was a jazz/blues singer before having children (her stage name was Toni Aubin, and her voice...
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Lanning, K. (1991). Consistency, scalability, and personality measurement. New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-97438-5.
Lanning, K. (1994). The dimensionality of observer ratings on the California Adult Q-Set. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 151–160. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.67.1.151.
Lanning, K. (2008). Democracy, voting and disenfranchisement in the United States: A social psychological perspective. Journal of Social Issues, 64, 431–446. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.00571.x.
Lanning, K. (2016). The network structure of social/personality psychology. (under review; https://osf.io/jdm9c/).
Lanning, K., & Gough, H. G. (1991). Shared variance in the California Psychological Inventory and the California Q-set. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 596–606. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.60.4.596.
Lanning, K., & Rosenberg, A. (2009). The dimensionality of American political attitudes: Tensions between equality and freedom in the wake of September 11. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 1, 84–100. doi:10.1080/19434470902771667.
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Lanning, K. (2016). Lanning, Kevin. 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_230-1
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