Top Research Papers on Personality

We conduct a clinical study of the investment behavior of 115 subjects. Using Norman's Big 5, Preference for Innovation and Risk-Taking Propensity (from Jackson's Personality Inventory), and Bem's sex-role inventory, we confirm the argument presented in Durand, Newby, and Sanghani [2008] that personality is related to investment choices and outcomes. We extend Durand et al. by demonstrating that investors’ reliance on two heuristics used to model market movements—the availability heuristic and the disposition effect—are associated with their personality traits.

Chapter 5 considers the role of personality in the Holocaust. The idea that psychopathology or insanity characterized the individual leaders of the Third Reich or the German population was simply not supported by the evidence. Perhaps these leaders, or even the German population as a whole, were not characterized by a psychological disorder but were nevertheless different from other people in some important way. The authoritarian personality, a construct derived from Freudian thought, was suggested as a possible explanation. German child-rearing practices were implicated in the production of t...

I ESSENCE people are alike; in accidental makeup they are different. All men have souls, a direct and evident relationship to God; yet some are small of stature, untidy in their appearance, unclean in their health habits, impolite, coarse, loud, unthoughtful, untruthful, unfair, disrespectful, dishonest, unsympathetic, uncultured, unchristian and ignorant, while others are diametrically opposite in all these characteristicstheir mere bearing incites respect, faith, trust, confidence and love. Between these two extremes there are multiform variations and gradations of type. The various factors ...

This chapter examines the attention paid to the symbolic value of Yiddish, attributing an expressive character to the language, irrespective of semantic value. This attention becomes especially pronounced when Yiddish is engaged in the postvernacular mode—that is, when the fact that someone writes or speaks in Yiddish is deemed at least as meaningful as the content of what they have written or uttered. The attributions of a character to Yiddish range widely, from the pious to the carnivalesque, reflecting observers’ desires (or fears) as well as their self-consciousness about Yiddish in relati...

The purpose of this chapter is to produce a definition of the concept of personality in international law. It also discusses the meaning of such concepts as norms, facts, rights, and other legal relations. It draws on, among other things, the work of WN Hohfeld. The chapter defines an international legal person as an entity that is constructed as a fact by norms of international law and to which such norms give at least one right or duty in Hohfeld’s sense. This departs from definitions that treat personality as a ‘capacity’. It emphasizes instead that personality is about conduct: internation...

repute have thus cured cases, are bold statements which could hardly be scientifically verified. On investigation such cases have usually been found to have been diagnosed wrongly. One would be much more inclined to state that it is particularly in these two types of psychosis that psychoanalysis would be of little or no avail, though paranoid reactions which not uncommonly are met with in psvchoneuroses mav be cured by its means. True paranoiacs do not have hallucinations as stated. The relationship of psychoanalysis to the psychoses must be handled more tentatively, or false impressions will...

When you describe yourself and the people you know, the words you use might be different for each person. Maybe your sister is creative, and your brother is friendly. You could even describe your dog as playful and your neighbor’s cat as nervous! The descriptions are different because each of you has a different personality—that is, you differ from others in terms of how you feel, think, and behave. But where does your personality come from? Why are people different? Will your personality always be the same as it is now? Do animals have personalities too? In this article, we discuss what resea...

This chapter reviews the neuroscience of brain and mind development. Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience, such as the concept of nonconscious working memory, support the psychanalytic concept of early object relations, which are believed to be the “elementary particles of the mind”: each contains a percept, a self-reflection, and the related affect and thus is not divisible to lower order units of mental experience. The functional brain networks giving rise to mental faculties (cognition, motivation, and emotions) are informed by these highly personal units of experience. Such “personali...

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This chapter explores the formative influences on Shawn’s decision to become a professional male dancer. In particular, it examines how a serious, paralyzing illness during his adolescence led him to study dance, thus derailing his plans to become a minister. It also considers how his early sexual experiences and the premature death of his parents and brother fueled his determination to become an artist. The chapter also details Shawn’s early appearances on stage (including his debut as a cross-dressing “Oriental sissy,” his move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film, and his experience ch...

Working with Professor George-Emil Baiulescu and knowing him has been a great honor and blessing. A model of success, a big personality, yet at the same time sensitive and requiring high standards – this is the path that Professor George-Emil Baiulescu has chosen in life. All his activity in science is motivated by one idea: to improve the quality of Analytical Chemistry in Romania. Professor George-Emil Baiulescu

Acknowledgements 1. The concept of personality Part One Explicit Personality: The Personality Theorist's Perspective 2. Single-trait theories 3. Multi-trait theories 4. Personality and consistency Part Two Implicit Personality: The Lay Perspective 5. The lay perspective 6. Implicit versus explicity personality thoeries Part Three The Self Perspective and Personality Construction 7. The self persepctive 8. The construction of personality Part Four Application of the Constructivist Approach 9. Personality over the life-span 10. Criminal personality Bibliography

that all the energy at man's disposal--coal, oil, lignite, peat, firewood and the muscles of working animals and of man himself-is derived from the photosynthesis of plants storing incident solar energy. Now photosynthesis by plants represents only about one-thousandth of the total radiant energy intercepted by the land surface in the growing season. How can man's inventive genius catch and store solar energy for his needs? Many have suggested direct transffirmation into electric energy, but the author is confident that a tremendous revolution awaits artificial photosynthesis yielding substanc...

The article carries on a thorough research of the history and development of the concept "personality". It is shown that the components of the idea "personality" were based on one another historically: at first there was individuality, then-personality, after I. Kant there was personalization. Only after the European Reformation the notion "personality" establishes itself with its complete features. There is an independent existence of a person in it. A particular area is formed in anthropology which is called personology.

Het in dit proefschrift beschreven onderzoek werd uitgevoerd aan het Instituut voor Persoonlijkheids- en Ontwikkelingspschychologie va de Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen en gesubsidieerd door de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Zuiver Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Z.W.O). De konstruktie van een uitputtende lijst Nederlandse Persoonlijkheidsbeschrijvende adjektieven leidde tot een lijst van 1203 adjektieven. Van deze adjectieven werden onder andere scores op de dier Osgood dimensies 'Evaluatie', 'Aktiviteit' en 'Potentie' bepaald. Faktor analyse van de oordelen op deze adjektieven, gegeven door 200 pa...

Recently in a round-table discussion on Christian charity, someone made the observation that "to love is a phenomenal commitment of the psychological rather than the metaphysical person." The statement deserves a thoughtful consideration, particularly on the level of the immediately observable: the 'phenomenon' of a personal dynamic energy of the human love. As the saying goes, 'love comes to everyone'; and philosophers, psychologists, poets, romanticists, mystics and theologians - each one of them has a number of meanings to assign to it. Whether active or passive, love falls under various he...

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The principles of operation, types of biometric identification systems, and examples and areas of their application are discussed.

Personal construct theory was presented by Kelly (1955) as an alternative to existing psychological theories and has been employed in numerous other areas, including educational and elinical applications.

Preface The Social Origin of Personality Traits: An Evaluative Function Personality in Neonates The Happy Personality: A Tale of Two Philosophies Personality & Subjective Wellbeing: Conundrums of Eudaimonia & Affectivity Person & Job Satisfaction (Again) The Effect of Personality on Reasoning Temperament & Character in First-Episode Schizophrenia & its Association with the Five-Factor Structure of the PANSS Exploring the Relationship between Personality & Mood Frequency.