This article examines the structure of character strengths (Peterson and Seligman, 2004) following both variable-centered and person-centered approaches. We used the International Personality Item Pool-Values in Action (IPIP-VIA) questionnaire. The IPIP-VIA measures 24 character strengths and consists of 213 direct and reversed items. The present study was conducted in a heterogeneous group of ...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious mental disease, classified in Cluster B of DSM IV-TR personality disorders. People with this syndrome presents an anamnesis of traumatic experiences and shows dissociative symptoms. Since not all subjects who have been victims of trauma develop a Borderline Personality Disorder, the emergence of this serious disease seems to have the fragility of cha...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800935-2.00007-5 Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 139 Humans display impressive fluency in perceiving and understanding one another. Through our senses, we are able to discern the identities, social categories, traits, and minds of our conspecifics. These perceptions are often performed accurately, rapidly, automatically, and simultaneously...

This study aimed to test how sense of humor is dependent on the complex and dynamic interactions between emotional (temperament) sociocognitive (character) components personality. Specifically, we examined relationship temperament and/or character profiles overall potential comic style. In total, 665 adults responded Cloninger’s Temperament Character Inventory (TCI) Comic Style Markers. were as...

Self-mutilation is defined as intentional damaging of the body without intention to die. Patients with borderline personality disorder frequently mutilate themselves by means of cutting, burning and abrading their skin. In this case report, a patient with borderline personality disorder is described who has cut his skin and suck his blood Several times. He had also the history of killing pigeon...

Virtual characters are increasingly becoming a common interface for communication between humans and computers, or for portraying human’s behaviour in leisure or educational setting (Louchart, Aylett, Pickering, Romano, 2004). If their creation aim is to portray humans, they should be inspired by the way humans express their feeling and interact with each other. We present here a personality mo...

We investigate how lighting can be used to influence how the personality of virtual characters is perceived. We propose a character-centric lighting system composed of three dynamic lights that can be configured using an interactive editor. To study the effect of character-centric lighting on observers, we created four lighting configurations derived from the photography and film literature. A ...