In this paper, we analyze personality from a cognitive systems perspective. We review briefly some popular theories of this phenomenon, arguing that they offer descriptive rather than deeper accounts. Next we note four core aspects of personality that deserve explanation and propose an alternative theory that claims individual differences result primarily from high-level cognitive structures an...

objective: knowing about cognitive dissonance aspects and psychological components will be helpful not only in psychological field but also in commercial and political areas. therefore the aim of this study was evaluation of relation between personality and physiological components of cognitive dissonance.   method: 130 students of elmi-karbordi university of safadasht were invited and they wer...

It is proposed that personality (conceptualized in terms of motives and psychological resources) changes normatively not only from young adulthood to middle age but also within middle age and that these changes take place in relation to social and biosocial change over the same period. Data from 123 women studied at ages 27, 43, 52, and 61 largely supported hypotheses about change in social rol...

The purpose of this article is tomake the distinction between antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy, discuss possible etiologies of psychopathy, and analyze the crimes, personality characteristics, and historical aspects of psychopathic serial killers. The research indicates that both environmental and biological factors affect the development of psychopathy. Several different serial ...

It is well known that utterances convey a great deal of information about the speaker in addition to their semantic content. One such type of information consists of cues to the speaker’s personality traits, the most fundamental dimension of variation between humans. Recent work explores the automatic detection of other types of pragmatic variation in text and conversation, such as emotion, dec...

OBJECTIVES To describe changes in personality after stroke and effects on carers. METHODS A consecutive series of patients was recruited from hospital admissions with stroke. A novel questionnaire was administered to the patients' main carer at nine months after the stroke to determine their perception of the patients' pre-stroke and post-stroke personality. Personality change was identified ...

background:   personality characteristics are important factors, which have significant effects on marital adjustment. since personality traits play silent roles in all aspects of human life, as well as social affairs, it can influence marital adjustment and living satisfaction. the present study investigated the role of personality trait dimensions and gender in predicting marital adjustment. ...

OBJECTIVES To determine if experienced health care providers (HCPs) can recognise patients with fibromyalgia (FM) based on a limited set of personality items, exploring the existence of a FM personality. METHODS From the 240-item NEO-PI-R personality questionnaire, 8 HCPs from two different countries each selected 20 items they considered most discriminative of FM personality. Then, evaluatin...

One of the greatest challenges in current humancomputer interaction research is the development of natural and affective interfaces. We present personality modelling as the inference of emotion and affect parameters, used by the dialogue management and user interaction components of a robot architecture. We discuss in detail the personality representation and inference aspects of the architectu...