The current study assessed the heritability of personality in a traditional natural-fertility population, the Ache of eastern Paraguay. Self-reports (n = 110) and other-reports (n = 66) on the commonly used Big Five Personality Inventory (i.e., extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness) were collected. Self-reports did not support the Five Factor Model developed with...

Although there has been increasing interest in dark personality traits in the organizational sciences, these characteristics remain relatively understudied and somewhat misunderstood. The present manuscript aims to clarify some of the issues surrounding dark personality traits by discussing the history of dark personality traits, how they relate to normal personality traits, their relative impo...

Study purpose: This study raises the hypothesis that the additional demands of parenting a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may lead to behavioural and personality changes consistent with the Broader Autism Phenotype (BAP). Background: In a previous study, 16 mothers of children with ASD were interviewed about their quality of life. A number of mothers indicated that they believed the ...

AIM To investigate whether mothers and fathers of children with intellectual disability differ when it comes to resistance factors (deailing with stress, marital quality, personality traits) and adjustement (psychical symptoms and subjective health complaints, pleasant and unpleasant mood). SUBJECTS AND METHODS The researchencompassed 30 married couples, 30 mathers and 30 fathers, all of wich...

Consumers often anthropomorphize brands by endowing them with personality traits, and marketers often create or reinforce these perceptions by their brand positioning. Brand personality traits provide symbolic meaning or emotional value that can contribute to consumers’ brand preferences and can be more enduring than functional attributes. Successfully positioning a brand’s personality within a...

People’s social media text has been shown to have limited prediction power of their personality. In this work, we conducted a survey study and a field study to explore the feasibility of using predicted personality traits derived from social media text for the purpose of ad targeting. In the survey study, we measured people's personalities and their responses to an advertisement tweet. We found...

We demonstrate a means of conservatively combining self and peer data regarding personality pathology and interpersonal behavior through structural equation modeling, focusing on avoidant personality disorder traits as well as those of two comparison personality disorders (dependent and narcissistic). Assessment of the relationship between personality disorder traits and interpersonal problems ...

Drawing on the victim precipitation model, this study provides an empirical investigation of the relationship between cognitive ability and victimization at work. We propose that people high in cognitive ability are more prone to victimization. In this study, we also examine the direct and moderating effects of victims' personality traits, specifically the 2 interpersonally oriented personality...