The popularity of online games has inspired controversial discussion on the effects of game-play in both mass media and academia. However, we know little about ordinary people’s opinions about the effects of game-play. The current study applies the theory of the third-person effect (TPE) to examine people’s perceptions of game effects on self and on others, and detects significant third-person ...

Possessing power contributes to high self-esteem, but how power enhances self-esteem is still unknown. As power is associated with both self-oriented goals and social-responsibility goals, we proposed that power predicts self-esteem through two positive personal and interpersonal results: authenticity and relationship satisfaction. Three studies were carried out with a total of 505 Chinese part...

Building upon a series of works by Thomas J. Bouchard, Lindon J. Eaves, Hans J. Eysenck and other contemporaries, we present strong evidence that the assumed causal relationship between personality and left–right ideology is too simplistic. We suggest the relationship is not predictive and instead is better understood by dividing the overarching left–right ideological spectrum into more meaning...

Building upon a series of works by Thomas J. Bouchard, Lindon J. Eaves, Hans J. Eysenck and other contemporaries, we present strong evidence that the assumed causal relationship between personality and left–right ideology is too simplistic. We suggest the relationship is not predictive and instead is better understood by dividing the overarching left–right ideological spectrum into more meaning...

Social desirability response bias (SDR) is the tendency of respondents to respond in a way that will be viewed favorably by others. Little research has examined the effect of SDR in the context of cigarette smoking cessation. Adult smokers were recruited for smoking cessation treatment. They completed self-report, biological, and implicit attitude measures. SDR scores, assessed using the Balanc...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have suggested that the age-personality relationship may be partly explained by age-related changes in response bias. In the present study, we analysed how age affected social desirability and acquiescence, and how this effect impacted the age-aggression relationship. METHOD We used the Indirect-Direct Aggression Questionnaire, which provides response bias and physic...

A well-known privacy-preserving network data publication problem focuses on how to publish social network data while protecting privacy and permitting useful analysis. Designing algorithms that safely transform network data is an active area of research. The process of applying these transformations is called anonymization operation. The authors recently proposed the (α,β,γ,δ)-SNP (Social Netwo...