Fear and reward learning can occur through direct experience or observation. Both channels can enhance survival or create maladaptive behavior. We used fMRI to isolate neural mechanisms of observational fear and reward learning and investigate whether neural response varied according to individual differences in neuroticism and extraversion. Participants learned object-emotion associations by o...

Four groups of patients with social phobia (SP) were compared with regard to psychopathologic characteristics, personality traits, and social and occupational functioning. Fifteen persons with discrete social phobia without any personality disorder (DSP), 28 persons with generalized social phobia (GSP) without any personality disorder, 24 persons with GSP with a single diagnosis of avoidant per...

the purpose of follow study concerned review of relation between extraversion, consciousness, negative and positive affect risky driving behavior. the population of this study is involved whole men driver in tehran and divided in two groups including: 202 men with risky driving behavior and 192 men without risky driving behavior. they are selected by random sampling method. gordon five factor q...

the aim of this study was to predict expert archers’ performance on the basis of psychological factors such as arousal, activation, anxiety, motivation and personality characteristics with an emphasis on extraversion / introversion dimension. in this predictive correlation study, 34 expert archers were randomly selected as the sample of the study out of the archers of national team (statistical...

Background A large number of studies about adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis focus on health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, only a few articles aim at evaluating the personality of these patients. Therefore, the purpose of the present research is to assess the personality traits of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis and their relationship with HRQOL.Our hypothesis is that adol...

A sample of 122 female students attending a Pentecostal Bible College in England completed Form G (Anglicised) of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The data demonstrated preferences for extraversion over introversion, for sensing over intuition, for feeling over thinking, and for judging over perceiving. The predominant type was ISFJ (16%), followed by ESFJ (12%). Comparison with the popu...

The Francis Psychological Type Scales were developed during the early 2000s to operationalize four components of psychological type theory within survey-style research, proposing measures introversion and extraversion, sensing intuition, feeling thinking, judging perceiving. Drawing on datasets clergy churchgoers (N = 291, 879, 1,296, 1,525), present study tests factor structure these establish...