Early Life and Educational Background
Dr. Piedmont was born in April 1958 in New Rochelle, New York. He earned his B.A. in 1980 from Iona College, summa cum laude, in psychology and history. He received a graduate fellowship to Boston University where he earned his M.A. (1984) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees in personality psychology. His training centered on measurement and the role of achievement motivation in predicting performance on tasks. Following graduation, he completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Aging under the aegis of Drs. Paul T. Costa Jr. and Robert R. McCrae. The focus of this position was on personality, health, and aging with a particular focus on the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality and the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), the only commercially available instrument that measures these constructs. At that time, the FFM was emerging as a comprehensive, empirically developed taxonomy of personality, and Dr. Piedmont was involved in...
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Piedmont, R.L. (2016). Piedmont, Ralph L.. 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_280-1
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