In recent years, language-learning research has been more concerned with factors that may affect the choice of learning strategies among learners. In studies conducted by Cohen (1990), Ehrman and Oxford (1995), MacIntyre and Gardner (1989) and Reid (1987), these factors have been identified as motivation, gender, learning style, previous experience, and personality type. This study attempts to ...

Diagnosing disorders in the current edition of the DSMIV involves two aspects. The first is the concept of a personality disorder, which currently is defined as a pervasive, stable and presents at least from adolescence pattern of "inner experience and behavior" that is deviant from a person's cultural norms. The second aspect involves defining what type of personality disorder is present among...

The “Five-Factor” model of personality types has been utilised by a number of computer science and psychology academics as a framework to explore aspects of Internet adoption, and more recently Social Media adoption and behaviours. While the use of personality type models in research has been less popular with marketing academics, the Five Factor Model has been used to predict the emotional app...

Variation in reactions to aposematic prey is common among conspecific individuals of bird predators. It may result from different individual experience but it also exists among naive birds. This variation may possibly be explained by the effect of personality--a complex of correlated, heritable behavioural traits consistent across contexts. In the great tit (Parus major), two extreme personalit...

Hiring the right person for the right job is always a challenging task in software development landscapes. To bridge this gap, software firms start using psychometric instruments for investigating the personality types of software practitioners. In our previous research, we have developed an MBTI-like instrument to reveal the personality types of software practitioners. This study aims to devel...

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This study examined whether individuals with different personality types (i.e., overcontrollers, undercontrollers, resilients) had different friendship quality development throughout adolescence. It also investigated whether personality types were indirectly related to romantic relationship quality in young adulthood, via friendship quality development in adolescence. The study employed six wav...

This paper describes our ongoing research effort to explore how personality types factor into HRI; in particular, the degree of patience a person has when teaching an error-prone robot in a learning from demonstration setting. Our goal is to establish personality metrics that will ultimately allow for the design of algorithms that automatically tune robot behavior to best suit user preferences ...

Overview Neurologists and primary care doctors manage patients with a wide range of psychiatric disturbances to include personality disorders. The definition of a personality disorder encompasses individuals with interpersonal or psychosocial dysfunction that impairs their social or professional function. Personality disorders are common in the general population occurring in 1-2% of the adult ...