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  1. Openness/Intellect: A Unique Trait Requires Unique Considerations

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Review, November 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  2. Personality trait change in three sub-Saharan countries: Normative development and life events.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, October 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Peter Haehner, Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  3. The structure of psychopathology among young adults in Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa.

    Article • Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, October 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Hofmann, Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  4. Revealing Self-Promotive Interdependence through Emotion: A Cultural Logic from Sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  5. Highlighting Personality and Social Psychological Theories From Majority World Contexts: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Review, August 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  6. Personality Predictors of Health, Well-Being, Relationships, and Employment in Namibia, Kenya, and South Africa: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study

    Article • July 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  7. Ubuntu in Namibia and Kenya: How Emerging Adults Live an Essential African Value Today

    Article • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  8. Prolonged Grief in African contexts: Scale validation, prevalence rates and risk factors among young adults in Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa

    Article • January 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  9. Becoming an Ovambo Adult: Growing Into Agentic Communalism in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Psychological Science, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  10. Socio-Economic Status in Africa Scale (SESAS): A new Measure for Young Adults in Namibia, Kenya, and South Africa

    Article • December 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  11. Two personality traits that appear across human societies

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, November 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  12. HEXACO Personality Traits in the Africa Long Life Study

    Article • October 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  13. Talking Mental Health with Kenyan Youth: Cognitive Interviews on the International Mental Health Assessment

    Article • April 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  14. Lifespan research in Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa: Cohort profile of the Africa long life study

    Article • Personality Science, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  15. Two Years Into the Next Chapter at PSPR

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Review, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  16. Challenges and Opportunities for Psychological Research in the Majority World

    Article • September 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  17. The International Mental Health Assessment: Validation of an Efficient Screening Inventory

    Article • Collabra Psychology, January 2023, University of California Press

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  18. Still Standing Inside: A Local Idiom Related to Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  19. Religiousness worldwide: translation of the Duke University Religion Index into 20 languages and validation across 27 nations

    Article • Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, October 2022, Leibniz-Institute of Psychology Information (ZPID)

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  20. Absolutism, Relativism, and Universalism in Personality Traits Across Cultures: The Case of the Big Five

    Article • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  21. What does your favourite colour say about your personality? Not much

    Article • Personality Science, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  22. ǂŪsigu: A mixed-method lexical study of character description in Khoekhoegowab.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, December 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer, Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  23. The Khoekhoegowab Personality Inventory: The Comparative Validity of a Locally Derived Measure of Traits

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2021, Frontiers

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  24. What American psychology needs most is the majority world: Reply to Webster et al. (2021).

    Article • American Psychologist, July 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer, Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  25. The neglected 95% revisited: Is American psychology becoming less American?

    Article • American Psychologist, January 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer, Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  26. The most commonly used personality terms and their structure in two African languages

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, September 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer, Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  27. Ethics‐relevant values in adulthood: Longitudinal findings from the life and time study

    Article • Journal of Personality, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  28. Ethics-Relevant Values in Adulthood: Longitudinal Findings from the Life and Time Study

    Article • January 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  29. Ethics-Relevant Values as Antecedents of Personality Change: Longitudinal Findings from the Life and Time Study

    Article • Collabra Psychology, January 2019, University of California Press

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  30. Agreeableness, antagonism, and mental health across cultures

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  31. Investigating the link between trait emotional intelligence, career indecision, and self-perceived employability: The role of career adaptability

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  32. Personality and mental health treatment: Traits as predictors of presentation, usage, and outcome.

    Article • Psychological Assessment, July 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  33. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study: Impact on Nonquantitative Treatment Limits for Specialty Behavioral Health Care

    Article • Health Services Research, May 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  34. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Evaluation Study: Impact on Quantitative Treatment Limits

    Article • Psychiatric Services, May 2017, American Psychiatric Association

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  35. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study

    Article • Medical Care, February 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  36. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study: Impact on Mental Health Financial Requirements among Commercial “Carve‐In” Plans

    Article • Health Services Research, December 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  37. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act evaluation study: Impact on specialty behavioral health utilization and expenditures among “carve-out” enrollees

    Article • Journal of Health Economics, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  38. Alternative Models of the Outcome Questionnaire-45

    Article • European Journal of Psychological Assessment, May 2015, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer, Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  39. The Questionnaire Big Six in 26 Nations: Developing Cross–Culturally Applicable Big Six, Big Five and Big Two Inventories

    Article • European Journal of Personality, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  40. Human attribute concepts: Relative ubiquity across twelve mutually isolated languages.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  41. A Basic Bivariate Structure of Personality Attributes Evident Across Nine Languages

    Article • Journal of Personality, April 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  42. Comparative validity of Brief to Medium-Length Big Five and Big Six Personality Questionnaires.

    Article • Psychological Assessment, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer

  43. Cultural, Contextual, and Measurement Challenges for the Paradigm of Personality Science

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer