Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults' Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century By: Naemi D. Brandt1 , Johanna Drewelies2,3 , Sherry L. Willis4 , K. Warner Schaie4, Nilam Ram5,6 , Denis Gerstorf2,7 , and Jenny Wagner1

1. What is the main research question(s) being addressed?
   • What is the "gap" identified in the literature that this study addresses?
2. What are the hypotheses?
3. Briefly describe the sample.
4. Briefly describe the methods - what did the researchers actually do?
5. What were the results? (Sometimes there may be more advanced statistics than you are expected to know, but you should still be able to interpret the authors' explanation of their results).
   • Did they support the hypotheses?
6. After reading the discussion, what is a contribution this article has made to the field and what is one study that could be done next to continue this line of research?