0092-6566/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2009.02.012 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (R.B. Slat Researchers have made great strides in conceptualizing and assessing contextualized personality—how people’s personalities vary across different contexts (e.g., among friends, co-workers, and relationship partners). We investigated how global...

A fundamental part of self-awareness is understanding your disposition, or how you tend to perceive the world, behave, and respond to others. Personality: Personality is an important aspect of disposition. It forms from birth through young adulthood and represents tendencies that are not easily changed. Given that, knowing how your personality traits are similar to and different from those arou...

Background: Majority of studies on personality and physical health have focused on one or two isolated personality traits. We aim to test the independent association of 10 personality traits, from three major conceptual models, with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the French GAZEL cohort. Methods: A total of 14,445 participants, aged 39-54 in 1993, completed the personality questionna...

Many genetic association studies on personality traits exist, and several meta-analyses have already been performed: On a serotonin transporter gene polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and anxiety-related traits. But also other polymorphisms and traits have been examined in meta-analyses. 11, 12 These meta-analyses typically focus on a single personality trait and a single polymorphism. The wiki system pre...

Certain personality traits, in particular higher neuroticism, have been associated, on one hand, with elevated cortisol levels, and on the other hand, with poorer cognitive performance. At the same time, several studies highlighted the association between high cortisol and poor cognitive functioning. Here, we hypothesized that increased cortisol may be associated with poorer cognition and with ...

Leveraging the findings in Psycholinguistic studies, we now can automatically compute an individual’s personality traits, including Big 5 traits, emotions, and human basic values, from one’s linguistic footprints left on social media. To help users interpret one’s personality traits derived from social media, we are building interactive visual analytic systems with a set of visual representatio...

Callous-unemotional (CU) traits, such as lacking empathy and emotional insensitivity, predict the onset, severity, and persistence of antisocial behavior. CU traits are heritable, and genetic influences on CU traits contribute to antisocial behavior. This study examines genetic overlap between CU traits and general domains of personality. We measured CU traits using the Inventory of Callous-Une...

0191-8869/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.09.004 ⇑ Corresponding author at: US Army NSRDEC, Attn St., Natick, MA 01760, USA. Tel.: +1 617 306 6262. E-mail address: [email protected] (T.T. Br Adopting another’s visual perspective is exceedingly common and may underlie successful social interaction and empathizing with others. The individual differences res...

Where behavioural responses differ consistently between individuals, this is termed 'personality'. There is the suggestion, but with little supporting data, that personality traits reflect underlying variation in physiology. Here, we tested whether greenfinches Carduelis chloris differing in personality traits differed in various plasma indices of oxidative profile: antioxidant capacity (OXY), ...

Researchers are vigorously debating whether psychopathic personality includes seemingly adaptive traits, especially social and physical boldness. In a large sample (N = 1,565) of adult offenders, we examined the incremental validity of 2 operationalizations of boldness (Fearless Dominance traits in the Psychopathy Personality Inventory [Lilienfeld & Andrews, 1996]; Boldness traits in the triarc...