{"id":989,"date":"2010-02-01T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/?page_id=989"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:21:05","slug":"brian-little","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/brian-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Little"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Personal projects analysis as a framework for integration in personality science; exploring the implications of &#8220;free traits&#8221;, patterns of culturally scripted conduct, that advance our core projects. Research within a social ecological model of human flourishing and floundering. The causes, correlates and consequences of<br>\naesthetic chills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"recent-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Little, B. R., Salemla-Aro, K &amp; Phillips, S.D. (Eds.) (2007). Personal project pursuit: Goals, action and human flourishing. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little, B.R. (2005). Personality science and personal projects: Six impossible things before breakfast. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 4-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little, B. R. &amp; Chambers, N. C. (2004). Personal project pursuit: On human doings and well beings. In M. Cox &amp; E. Klinger (Eds.), Handbook of motivational counseling: Concepts, approaches and assessment (pp.65-82).Chichester, U.K.: Wiley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little, B. R. (2000a). Free traits and personal contexts: Expanding a social ecological model of well-being. In W.B. Walsh, K. H. Craik &amp; R.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Price (Eds.), Person environment psychology (2nd edition) (pp.87-116).&nbsp; New York: Guilford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little, B. R. (2000b). Persons, contexts and personal projects:&nbsp; Assumptive themes of a methodological transactionalism. In S.Wapner, J. Demick, T. Yamamoto, &amp; H.Minami (Eds.), Theoretical persectives in environment-behavior research (pp.79-88). New York: Plenum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little, B. R. (1999a) Personal projects and social ecology: Themes and variations across the life span. In J. Brandtstadter &amp; R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Action and self-development: Theory and research through the life span (pp.197-221). Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little, B. R. (1999b) Personality and motivation: Personal action and the conative evoluation. In L. A. Pervin and O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality theory and research. (2nd ed., pp.501-524)).<br>\nNew York: Guilford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little, B. R. (1998). Personal project pursuit: Dimensions and dynamics of personal meaning. In P.T. P. Wong &amp; P. S. Fry (Eds.), The human question for meaning: A handbook of psychological research and clinical applications (pp. 193-212). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McGregor, I. &amp; Little, B. R. (1998). Personal projects, happiness and<br>\nmeaning: On doing well and being yourself. 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