This study examined whether certain personality characteristics are associated with susceptibility to false memories. Participants first answered questions from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in order to measure various personality characteristics. They then watched a video excerpt, the simulated eyewitness event. They were next encouraged to lie about the videotaped event during an interview....

Previous research and theory suggest that two stable personality dimensions, extroversion and neuroticism, differentially influence emotional reactivity to a variety of pleasurable phenomena. Here, we use event-related functional MRI to address the putative neural and behavioral associations between humor appreciation and the personality dimensions of introversion-extroversion and emotional sta...

Introduction: Data on the relationship between personality profile and nicotine dependence may help health professionals to design and improve programs for the treatment and prevention of this dependence. Objective: To investigate the relationship between personality profile and nicotine dependence in a group of smoking undergraduate students. Methods: A total of 1,245 undergraduate students we...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate relationship of social anxiety disorder symptoms with probable attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) while controlling the personality traits of neuroticism and extraversion, anxiety and depression symptoms in a sample of Turkish university students (n=455). Participants were evaluated with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Beck Anxi...

Objective: The current study aimed to investigate the relationship among personality traits and self regulation among different drug abuse cases. The three categories of drug abuse were based on phases of addiction namely current, relapse and remitted cases. Method: The sample consisted of 108 drug abusers taken from different rehabilitation centers of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The selected dru...

This study aims to investigate the relationships of personality and social support with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after traffic accidents.The 90 Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) were completed 1 week after trauma. The Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) was surveyed 3 months after discharge.PCL-C score of 38 was used as cutoff point. The older age...

An experiment by Cohen and Horn purporting to test Eysenck's theory of extraversion is criticized on the following grounds: (a) unsuitable sample, (6) lack of proper experimental control, (c) failure to choose appropriate parameter values, and (rf) improper theoretical formulation. It is argued that the results throw little light on the nature of extraversion-introversion nor on the theory of c...

This paper explores dialogue adaptation over repeated interactions within a taskoriented human tutorial dialogue corpus. We hypothesize that over the course of four tutorial dialogue sessions, tutors adapt their strategies based on the personality of the student, and in particular to student introversion or extraversion. We model changes in strategy over time and use them to predict how effecti...