#International Personality Project – *Extension*# ##Overview: The study will be examining participants’ everyday situations (e.g., eating dinner with my friends), and how those situations relate to behaviors and personality. This study is unique because although personality and behavior have been quantified cross-culturally, situations have not. The current project intends to extend the International Situations Project (IPP) to universities across the United States in order understand the within country variation of how individual’s personality is related to the ways in which they experience situations. ##Measures: In order to collect situational and behavioral descriptions, we are using ipsative measures developed in our lab, including the Riverside Situational Q-sort (RSQ: version 3.11; Wagerman & Funder, 2009) and the Riverside Behavioral Q-sort (RBQ: version 3.11; Funder et al., 2000). We will collect personality data using a revised version of California Adult Q-sort (CAQ; Guillaume & Funder, 2012). We intentionally use Q-sorts because they are well suited for cross-cultural research by controlling for response sets and reducing reference-group effects (Heine et al., 2002). ##Procedure: The entire study is online, made possible by a custom-built website to suit the study’s purposes. After logging into the website, participants will be asked extensive questions about their backgrounds, such as, “Where were you born?” “Where were your parents born?” and “What is your native language?” among others. The RSQ/RBQ portion asks where they were, whom they were with, and what they were doing the previous night at 7pm, and participants describe their behavior and the situation using the q-sets. The second part of the study (to be collected at least a week later) collects personality data using the CAQ. The CAQ portion takes approximately 15 minutes and the RSQ/RBQ portion takes about 30 minutes. This is a two-part study, and collaborators will be asked to collect CAQ information first, wait a week, and then collect RBQ/RSQ information (the two portions are separated because it is hazardous to collect behavior and personality information in the same session). However, it is possible to only send TWO EMAILS to all your participants. The first will provide the login information and instructions for both parts, and the second should be sent a week later, reminding participants to take the RRB/RSQ portion. We can create unique codes for each part to track participants, and each portion is time-stamped, so we would know if a participant did not wait a week. ##How to get started: 1. email [ericanbaranski@gmail.com][3] and request a Study ID and list of Participant ID numbers 2. Recruit a minimum of 80 participants to email [internationalsituationsproject@gmail.com][4] so they can receive: a. Study ID b. Unique Participant ID c. Access to questionnaire via project's custom made website b. Automatic reminder email from the International Situations Project to complete second part of the study 3. *Request the national data file* – After the data is collected, it will be made available for any desired analysis and/or publication. ###To run through the RSQ/RBQ part (in English) go to: [internationalsituationsproject.com][1]<br />Study ID: amtest1<br />Participant ID: am001 ###To run through the CAQ part (in English) go to: [www.internationalsituationsproject.com][2]<br />Study ID: caqtest1<br /> Participant ID: caq001 ###Helpful links: **Please visit our lab’s website for more information: <br/>[** rap.ucr.edu[ **Our first paper using the ISP data:** :<br/>[http://rap.ucr.edu/JJPFunderetal.pdf][5] **Powerpoint by UCR graduate student Erica Baranski explaining progress of study** If you would like to join (or know a colleague who may), please email me at **ericanbaranski@ucr.edu** and we will get you set up to begin data collection at your school. [1]: http://internationalsituationsproject.com [2]: http://internationalsituationsproject.com [3]: http://ericanbaranski@gmail.com [4]: http://internationalsituationsproject@gmail.com [5]: http://rap.ucr.edu/JJPFunderetal.pdf