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....

Considering the importance of learners' characteristics in facilitating or hindering second language oral communication, two personality traits that have received a lot attention from researchers are extroversion and introversion. However, their findings been contradictory - some found correlates significantly with speaking skills while others disconfirm this finding. This study aimed to examin...

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...

as the point of reference in relation to the object, thereby giving to the subject an evaluation higher than that of the object. "As a result, the object always possesses a lower value; it has a secondary importance; occasionally it even represents merely an outward objective token of a subjective content, the embodiment of an idea in other words, in which, however, the idea is the essential fa...

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...

The Eysenck Personality Inventory and Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale were administered to 80 patients undergoing medical treatment for long standing inflammatory bowel disease: 22 patients were studied before the diagnosis was established and 40 patients with diabetes mellitus served as controls. High neuroticism and introversion scores were more prevalent in the patients with inflammato...

Cyberbullying, a form of bullying with the use digital technologies, has become increasingly common among teenagers. It can take place on social media, messaging platforms, gaming and previous studies provide several lines evidence that no relationship is found between cyberbullying influences introversion extraversion. To further investigate impact cyberbullying, this research was conducted ai...

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...

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...

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...