The present experiment examines the effects of extraversion and consumption of alcohol on facial and verbal indicators of humor-induced positive affect. Sixty one female students were placed into one of three alcohol conditions (no ethanol, low dose, high dose) and were exposed to 30 slides containing jokes or cartoons. Facial measurements of smiling and laughter, funniness and aversiveness of ...

Personality traits can predict how well-sojourners and expatriates adjust to new cultures, but the adjustment process remains largely unexamined. Based on recent findings that reveal personality traits predict as well as respond to life events and experiences, this research focuses on within-person change in contextualized extraversion and its predictive validity for cross-cultural adjustment i...

This paper investigates the effects of extraversion and team member expertise on virtual team interaction and performance. Sixty-three virtual teams of professional managers participated in an intellective decision making task using a web-based conferencing tool. The results revealed level of extraversion to be positively and significantly correlated with the aggressive and constructive interac...

thinking–EP relationship. The results of abstract thinking-EP relationship are presented here (Table 3) only briefly to enable the easier understanding of the complex personality–EP–intelligence relationship, as they are explained in detail in our earlier study (Tatalović Vorkapić et al., 2008). Contrary to our expectations, only three significant correlations between abstract thinking and EPs ...

Introversion/extraversion and neuroticism are 2 important and frequently studied dimensions of human personality. These dimensions describe individual differences in emotional responding across a range of situations and may contribute to a predisposition for psychiatric disorders. Recent neuroimaging research has begun to provide evidence that neuroticism and introversion/extraversion have spec...

Cognitive neuroscience aims to delineate principles of brain-behavior relations by characterizing both common mechanisms across, and individual differences among, individuals. Both approaches are relevant for the study of the amygdala, a critical structure for the processing of emotional signals (1). Consistent activation to fearful facial expressions (2– 4 ) may reflect a shared neural mechani...

Neuroticism and extraversion are personality factors associated with the vulnerability for developing depression and anxiety disorders, and are possibly differentially related to brain structures implicated in the processing of emotional information and the generation of mood states. To date, studies on brain morphology mainly focused on neuroticism, a dimension primarily related to negative af...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined the extent to which two major personality dimensions (extraversion and neuroticism) index the genetic and environmental risk for three phobias (social phobia, agoraphobia, and animal phobia) in twins ascertained from a large, population-based registry. METHOD Lifetime phobias and personality traits were assessed through diagnostic interview and self-report quest...

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