Progress is reviewed with respect on how attributes of personality and character can best be organized and structured. Key insights on this important scientific issue have been gained by a lexical approach, which posits that the degree of representation of an attribute in language corresponds substantially with the general importance of the attribute in real-world transactions. The rationale fo...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined the capacity of alexithymia to predict a broad range of psychiatric symptoms relative to that of other personality dimensions, age, and gender. METHOD The Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Temperament and Character Inventory, and the SCL-90-R were administered to 254 psychiatric patients. Multivariate linear regression analyses were performed. RESULTS The difficu...

INTRODUCTION A number of reports have identified significant personality differences in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) when compared with age-matched controls. We hypothesised that these differences may be related to impairment in prefrontal inhibitory functions resulting in the expression of new "Machiavellian" personality traits. METHODS Thirty-five patients with PD and 17 age-match...

This study focuses on personality prediction of protagonists in novels based on the Five-Factor Model of personality. We present and publish a novel collaboratively built dataset of fictional character personality and design our task as a text classification problem. We incorporate a range of semantic features, including WordNet and VerbNet sense-level information and word vector representation...

We report on an experiment in assigning personality to embodied agents reciting lines from modern poems. Three potential personality cues are investigated: gaze, speech and eyebrow movements. For each cue an introvert and an extrovert variant is defined. Little is known about the perceptual effects of combining personality cues. This is addressed by creating personality profiles, consisting of ...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the psychology personality and conflict experienced by main character. Researchers used library research methods. results Harry Potter's Personality Psychology found that he was a brave, self-confident not easily discouraged person. Apart from that, conflicts were Potter being attacked giant dog in corridor on third floor, character finding deadly plant, ...

As humans we perceive other humans as individually different based – amongst other things – on a consistent pattern of affect, cognition, and behavior. Here we propose a biologically and psychologically grounded cognitive architecture for the control of nonverbal behavior of a virtual humanoid character during dynamic interactions with human users. Key aspects of the internal states and overt b...

Impulsivity is a relevant construct for explaining both normal individual differences in personality and more extreme personality disorder, and is often investigated within clinical populations. This study aims to explore the college students' impulsivity patterns and to investigate the association across levels of impulsivity with trauma exposure and PTSD development in a non-clinical populati...