Joshua D. Foster is a faculty member at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. He is a social-personality psychologist who conducts research primarily on narcissistic personality.
Early Life and Educational Background
Foster was born on August 19, 1973, in Washington, D.C. He earned his B.S. in psychology from the Old Dominion University in 1996 and his M.A. in experimental psychology from Towson University in 2000. He earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Georgia in 2005 under the direction of W. Keith Campbell.
Professional Career
Foster has taught in the Psychology Department at the University of South Alabama since 2005. He has also taught as a visiting professor of nursing at the Louisiana State University. He has authored dozens of publications during his career which have appeared in outlets such as Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. His research has been cited several...
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Foster, J. D., & Brennan, J. C. (2011). Narcissism, the agency model, and approach-avoidance motivation. In W. K. Campbell, J. D. Miller, W. K. Campbell, & J. D. Miller (Eds.), The handbook of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder: Theoretical approaches, empirical findings, and treatments (pp. 89–100). Hoboken: Wiley.
Foster, J. D., & Trimm, R. I. (2008). On being eager and uninhibited: Narcissism and approach-avoidance motivation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1004–1017.
Foster, J. D., & Twenge, J. M. (2011). Narcissism and relationships: From light to dark. In W. R. Cupach, B. H. Spitzberg, W. R. Cupach, & B. H. Spitzberg (Eds.), The dark side of close relationships II (pp. 381–407). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Foster, J. D., Campbell, W. K., & Twenge, J. M. (2003). Individual differences in narcissism: Inflated self-views across the lifespan and around the world. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 469–486.
Foster, J. D., Shenesey, J. W., & Goff, J. S. (2009). Why do narcissists take more risks? Testing the roles of perceived risks and benefits of risky behaviors. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(8), 885–889.
Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349, aac4716.
Twenge, J. M., Konrath, S., Foster, J. D., Campbell, W. K., & Bushman, B. J. (2008). Egos inflating over time: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of the narcissistic personality inventory. Journal of Personality, 76, 875–902.
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Foster, J. (2020). Foster, Joshua D.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1223
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