Boris Mlacic

Boris Mlačić earned his PhD in personality psychology from the University of Zagreb. Since 1992 he is employed at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar in Zagreb where he is now a research advisor. Since 1999 he teaches at the Department of Psychology, College of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb where he is now a full professor. Since 2014 he teaches at the Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, also as a full professor. In the academic year 2009/2010 he was awarded with a Fulbright Research Award at the Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. He was a recipient of the Croatian Annual National Award for Science for 1999. Since 2013 he is Member of the Executive Committee of World Personality Association. In his research he focuses on individual differences, the lexical approach in personality psychology, the Big-Five model, and personality development. In particular, he develops personality-descriptive taxonomies, studies self-peer agreement in the context of personality and social attitudes and personality structure development.