The researchers sought to develop a personality measure from items in Wave I of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The study found 13 items from three dimensions of personality (neuroticism, extroversion, and conscientiousness), and then examined the factor structure and internal consistency of each of the three dimensions. Within each personality dimension, the items showed ...

We participated in the PR-SOCO task hosted in FIRE 2016 and tried some basic approaches which we look to improve in the future. We defined some simple features from the source code which, in our opinion, were indicative of the manner in which the code was written and which might give some clues about the personality of the programmer. We built a multiple linear regression model from the trainin...

This paper describes a hands-off therapist robot that monitors, assists, encourages, and socially interacts with post-stroke users engaged in rehabilitation exercises. We investigate the role of the robot’s personality in the hands-off therapy process, focusing on the relationship between the level of extroversion-introversion of the robot and the user. The experiments map the extraversion-intr...

Research Indicates that messages or products matching individuals' self-schemata are viewed more favorably, but little is known about how or when such effects occur. Experiment 1 indicates that messages matched to participants' level of extroversion lead to larger argument quality effects on attitudes than do mismatched messages. In experiment 2, these effects are replicated with the selfschema...

This study examined levels of technophobia in a sample of 176 South African university students enrolled in ®rst-year computing and psychology courses. Technophobia, which is described as negative psychological reactions towards technology, was assessed using Rosen and Weil's Measuring Technophobia instruments. The levels of technophobia were correlated with each of the ®ve dimensions (neurotic...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) causes chronic cough, sinusitis and bronchiectasis, and half of patients also show situs inversus. The genetic basis and visible and concealed chronic symptoms provide potential for stigmatization. We describe a structural equation model linking a questionnaire measure of stigmatization to sex, age, personality (Big Five), symptoms (St George's Respiratory Quest...

rare disease, e.g., extroversion of the bladder, and others which only very rarely come under the notice of the general practitioner, and when they do, are better operated upon by an expert. The preliminary chapters discuss the examination of patients, general and local, and of various excretions, etc. We quite agree with the authors that a definite diagnosis should not be made purely on the re...