There have been several reports of patients with chronic pain (CP) and dissociative or multiple personality disorder (MPD). This report describes a patient with MPD in whom 4 different personalities reported different perceptions of pain. Psychological testing was used to confirm the diagnosis of MPD. Visual analogue scales (VAS) and the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) were used on each of the ...

We studied an individual with multiple personality disorder in whom each of several personalities claimed to have no direct awareness of the others and to be unable to consciously remember the experiences of other personalities. A broad selection of implicit and explicit memory tests was used to determine the extent to which one personality had access to knowledge acquired by another and the ci...

This paper is an attempt to systematically present the problem of various N-person Prisoners’ Dilemma games and some of their possible solutions. 13 characteristics of the game are discussed. The role of payoff curves, personalities, and neighborhood is investigated. Experiments are performed with a new simulation tool for multi-agent Prisoners’ Dilemma games. Investigations of realistic situat...

Optimizing group success is challenging for multi-robot systems, especially for large systems such as robot swarms where even simple individual interaction rules can lead to complex group behavior. Studies of natural systems have shown that heterogeneous groups can outperform homogeneous groups, especially when individual differences lead to role or niche specialization. This happens even when ...

Despite the wide use of personality in understanding human behavior, there is a lack of empirical research relating the commonly agreed personality measurement with travel personality or travel related activities. In fi lling the knowledge gap, this study aims at exploring the relationship between the Big Five Factors (BFF) of personality and travel personality. Using self-administered question...