Rate My Professor Chris Jackson

Professor Christopher Jackson, known professionally as Chris Jackson, joined the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland in 2000, contributing significantly to personality and organizational psychology research. He holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, commencing in 1981, followed by an MPhil and PhD in Psychology and Statistics earned in the United Kingdom. Jackson's academic interests center on cognitive models of personality structure and development in applied settings, with a particular emphasis on biological and cognitive perspectives underlying learning and individual differences. He is best recognized for advancing Gray’s Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST), developing the Jackson-5 questionnaire in 2009 to assess revised RST, and introducing the Hybrid Model of Learning in Personality (HMLP) in 2005, which serves as a predictive tool for workplace performance, subversive behaviors, and clinical depression. Jackson also collaborated on the Eysenck Personality Profiler (EPP), a globally utilized instrument. His research extends to leadership, motivation, maverickism, laterality, disinhibition, and predictions of performance from personality traits.

At the University of Queensland, Professor Jackson supervised multiple PhD theses and authored over 120 publications in prestigious outlets including Psychological Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality. Notable works include 'The new reinforcement sensitivity theory: Implications for personality measurement' (2006, 553 citations), 'Do personality factors predict job satisfaction?' (2002, 448 citations), 'Jackson-5 scales of revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (r-RST) and their application to dysfunctional real world outcomes' (2009, 276 citations), 'Personality, learning style and work performance' (1999, 256 citations), and 'Self-compassion protects against the negative effects of low self-esteem: A longitudinal study in a large adolescent sample' (2015, 417 citations). He obtained three Australian Research Council grants exceeding $1 million in funding. In 2008, Jackson transitioned to a professorship in the School of Management at the University of New South Wales, later serving as Head of School from 2012 to 2015, where he continued supervising 14 PhD students to completion and developed an online psychological research laboratory for studying personality and work outcomes. His contributions have shaped domain-general models of personality processes, integrating reinforcement sensitivity theory with attention models.