introduction: in modern societies, shift work is an essential component of daily life. since the beginning of research in shift work, researchers have been engaged in the identification of factors predicting adjustment and adaptation to shift work. the concept of adaptation and tolerance refers mainly to the biological response in terms of circadian rhythms and performance efficiency as well as...

There exist large individual differences in students’ willingness to invest cognitive effort within the academic domain. In a preregistered study, we investigated whether adolescents’ effort, as assessed by an experimental discounting task, were related need for cognition, motivation and capacity. We found that was cognition capacity indexed task-performance. Our results demonstrate contribute ...

A key challenge in creating simulated human agents is to produce sufficiently realistic behavior. A critical component of such realism is the range of variations in behaviors exhibited by humans. These variations are due to a variety of factors, including varying levels of intelligence and skill, differences in cognitive and decision making styles, personality differences, and different affecti...

the employee engagement has emerged as a pivotal business driver for organizational success. high level of engagement in domestic and global firms is supposed to have multiple enriching effects on an organization. studies have highlighted the importance of both organizational and individual factors in ensuring highly engaged employees. the present paper explores the individual differs across fo...

The enduring differences between individuals have been one of psychology’s central concerns over the past 100 years or more. In the last 25 years, evolutionary thinking has begun to make a huge impact on psychological explanation, particularly in social and cognitive psychology. However, the integration of evolutionary thinking into the study of individual differences has been more uneven (for ...