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Brian P. O’Connor was born in 1959 and raised in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He obtained a B.Sc. in 1981 from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. His M.Sc. and Ph.D. (finishing in 1987) were from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, where he worked with Robert Gifford. He was then a postdoctoral fellow for 1 year at the University of Quebec at Montreal, working with Robert Vallerand. He spent the next 19 years as a professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He has been a professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, since 2007.
His primary research interests have been in topics that are at the intersection of personality, social, and abnormal psychology, with an emphasis on understanding individual differences. Specific research topics include interpersonal theory, the five-factor model, and personality disorders (e.g., O’Connor 2002a, b, 2005a, b, 2015;...
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Gifford, R., & O’Connor, B. (1987). The interpersonal circumplex as a behavior map. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 1019–1026.
O’Connor, B. P. (2000). SPSS and SAS programs for determining the number of components using parallel analysis and Velicer’s MAP test. Behavior Research Methods, Instrumentation, and Computers, 32, 396–402.
O’Connor, B. P. (2002a). The search for dimensional structure differences between normality and abnormality: A statistical review of published data on personality and psychopathology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 962–982.
O’Connor, B. P. (2002b). A quantitative review of the comprehensiveness of the five-factor model in relation to popular personality inventories. Assessment, 9, 188–203.
O’Connor, B. P. (2005a). Graphical analyses of personality disorders in five-factor model space. European Journal of Personality, 19(4), 287–305.
O’Connor, B. P. (2005b). A search for consensus on the dimensional structure of personality disorders. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61, 323–345.
O’Connor, B. P. (2015). Chapter 11: Robustness. In T. A. Widiger (Ed.), The oxford handbook of the five factor model. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9 780199352487.013.19.
O’Connor, B. P., & Dyce, J. A. (1997). Interpersonal rigidity, hostility, and complementarity in musical bands. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 362–372.
O’Connor, B. P., & Dyce, J. A. (1998). A test of models of personality disorder configuration. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 3–16.
O’Connor, B. P., & Dyce, J. A. (2001). Rigid and extreme: A geometric representation of personality disorders in five-factor model space. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 1119–1130.
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O’Connor, B.P. (2016). O’Connor, Brian P.. 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_267-1
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