The current study (N = 244) compared two independently developed and substantively different measures of self-confidence; a self-report measure, and a measure described as "online." Online measures are confidence-accuracy judgments made following each item on a cognitive task; in the current study, online measures were yoked to tasks of fluid and crystallized intelligence. The self-report and o...

Animal models suggest that stress-induced hormonal changes in the mother during pregnancy lead to enduring changes in the fetus and empirical links between prenatal maternal stress and negative child development have been discerned repeatedly in human studies. But the role of heritable personality traits has received little attention in the latter work. The goal of the current study was to inve...

Recent studies suggest that people’s interaction experience with virtual agents can be, to a very large degree, described by people’s personality traits. Moreover, the nonverbal behavior of a person has been known to indicate several social constructs in different settings. In this study we analyze human-agent interaction from the perspective of nonverbal behaviors displayed during the interact...

The relationship between individual differences in autobiographical memory and personality was examined by having 118 undergraduates complete the NEO Personality Inventory after rating 15 word-cued autobiographical memories on 20 scales. The Openness to Feelings facet (O3) correlated with measures of belief in the accuracy of memories, recollection, sensory imagery and emotion. Four other facet...

Out-patients (N 1⁄4 76) completed measures of interpersonal motives and construals derived from relational models theory and a five-factor model personality questionnaire. A broader range of associations between personality dimensions and relational tendencies was obtained than interpersonal circle theorists propose, with dimensions other than extraversion and agreeableness having distinctive r...

Recent studies suggest that human interaction experience with virtual agents can be, to a very large degree, described by people’s personality traits. Moreover, the nonverbal behavior of a person has been known to indicate several social constructs in different settings. In this study, we analyze human-agent interaction from the perspective of the personality of the human and the nonverbal beha...

This paper reports on the clinical validity of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI-2) based on a large-scale research project involving different diagnostic categories of psychiatric patients in Mainland China and Hong Kong. CPAI has been developed as a culturally-relevant instrument to assess Chinese personality. This report focuses particularly on culture-related personality co...