Personality and social attitudes: Evidence for positive-approach motivation

Predicting Social Networking Site (SNS) use: Personality, attitudes, motivation and Internet self-efficacy

Few studies have considered the personal characteristics that may predict the use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs). We examined the prediction of SNS use from distinct personality traits (i.e., sociability and shyness), attitudes toward SNS use, motivations for SNS use and Internet self-efficacy. Participants were 352 Chinese college students who used the QQ zone. Results indicated that sociab...

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and social cognition.

In this editorial, the new incoming editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP)addresses the upcoming challenges and the issue of replicability. Although people vary (often dramatically) in their views on the nature and extent of this issue, that we have an issue to address is something that the new editor thinks most scholars would agree on. It is her hope that engaging ...

ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Learning and Memory for Personality Prototypes

Although personality traits are commonly assumed to be represented in memory as schemata, little research has addressed whether such schemata can be learned from observation. Subjects in three studies classified 60 person instances into group members and nonmembers as denned by the instances' match to a complex personality prototype. To simulate learning of fuzzy categories, each person instanc...

The Role of Personality, Social Characteristics, Risk and Motivation

The report addresses the topic of aggression in driving, with a consideration of a number of subject areas: theories of aggression; the definition of aggressive behaviour in driving; measurements of aggression; extreme forms of driver aggression; less extreme forms of driver aggression. The report’s conclusions focus on society’s role in aggressive behaviour, strategies for coping with aggressi...

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Retraining Attitudes and Stereotypes to Affect Motivation and Cognitive Capacity Under Stereotype Threat