Individual Differences in Self-Talk Frequency: Social Isolation and Cognitive Disruption

Self-monitoring: individual differences in orientations to the social world.

In their articles in this special section of the Journal of Personality, the authors have focused their attention on the role of individual differences in self-monitoring for a variety of interpersonal phenomena. In so doing, the authors have provided an overview of the theoretical and empirical contributions of the psychology of self-monitoring to the domains of interest: close relationships, ...

Individual Differences in Frequency of Inner Speech: Differential Relations with Cognitive and Non-cognitive Factors

Inner speech plays a crucial role in behavioral regulation and the use of inner speech is very common among adults. However, less is known about individual differences in the frequency of inner speech use and about the underlying processes that may explain why people exhibit individual differences in the frequency of inner speech use. This study was conducted to investigate how individual diffe...

Individual differences in cognitive flexibility.

I s it better to be flexible, or persistent? A colleague once said that the secret to success in science is perseveration (no, not mere perseverence—that wouldn’t get you very far at all). Yet we all believe that the highest levels of cognitive function are associated with extreme flexibility—the ability to juggle many things at once and not get hung up on just one. Indeed, this ability to jugg...

Individual differences in cognitive arithmetic.

Unities in the processes involved in solving arithmetic problems of varying operations have been suggested by studies that have used both factor-analytic and information-processing methods. We designed the present study to investigate the convergence of mental processes assessed by paper-and-pencil measures defining the Numerical Facility factor and component processes for cognitive arithmetic ...

Running title : INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND COGNITIVE LOAD Individual differences and cognitive load theory