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Psychology, Social
Gabriel Camacho
Summary: The current research examines the effectiveness of a prejudice reduction strategy used by Black college students, which involves signaling a college affiliation, in reducing the perceived risk of a Black man being seen as a criminal and racially profiled by police. The results showed that when a Black man displayed a college logo on his hoodie, he was perceived as significantly less likely to be seen as a criminal. However, the effect of college apparel on reducing the perceived risk of racial profiling by police was not consistent.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Irena Buric, Maja Parmac Kovacic, Kresimir Jaksic
Summary: Teacher personality is an important predictor of job-related outcomes, and personality facets are more accurate in predicting outcomes than domains. This study found associations between teacher personality domains and incremental facets and indicators of job-related outcomes, with incremental facets playing a significant role in explaining the variance in these outcomes.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Tami Kim, Maura Austin, Luca Cian, Gabrielle Adams
Summary: The impact of ancestral information on individuals' social connectedness and life meaning remains inconclusive.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Veronique Maheux-Caron, Dominick Gamache, Sebastien Hetu
Summary: This study used Latent Class Analysis to investigate the combination of Dark Tetrad and Vulnerable Dark Triad traits, and identified four personality profiles: Low traits, Moderate Dark Tetrad, High Dark Tetrad, and Vulnerable Dark Triad. The study found differences in external variables among these profiles.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Varun Elembilassery, Nikunj Kumar Jain, Divya Aggarwal
Summary: This study examines the relationship between an individual's social comparison orientation and tolerance for ambiguity, along with the emotional disposition traits of maximization and proneness to regret. The results show that comparing with others influences the tolerance for ambiguity, and different personality traits also have a significant impact on this relationship.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Michelle Yik, Nicolson Yat-Fan Siu
Summary: This study used diary data from Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine the relationship between enforced social distancing and happiness. The findings suggest that happiness remained stable throughout the enforcement and easing of social distancing measures. Extraversion and agreeableness were positively associated with happiness, and those high in extraversion were less happy during the enforcement of social distancing.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Jiayi Li, Chang Liu, Lucy Albertella, Kristian Rotaru, Kuiliang Li, Yu Zhou, Xinyi Wei, Shangqing Yuan, Xufeng Liu, Lei Ren
Summary: University students often experience symptoms of depression. The Dark Triad traits, including Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism, are associated with depression. A network analysis revealed significant positive correlations between these traits and specific depression symptoms. Psychopathy emerged as a central influence in the network, suggesting that targeting this trait may be effective in mitigating depression.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Mayson C. Astle, Mirela Dubravac, Brandon J. Schmeichel
Summary: Claiming knowledge about something that does not exist may reflect self-enhancement motives. Trait self-control is negatively related to overclaiming and also relates to claiming knowledge about nonexistent concepts.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Valentin Mang, Kai Epstude, Bob M. Fennis
Summary: Conspiracy theories can have detrimental effects on individuals' behavior. This study explores the relationship between exposure to conspiracy theories and behavioral intentions, and the moderating role of the need to evaluate (NE). Results indicate that exposure to conspiracy narratives increases specific conspiracy beliefs, which in turn affect behavioral intentions, particularly for individuals with a high need to evaluate.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Julie Aitken Schermer, Georg Krammer, Corinna Koschmieder, Aljoscha Neubauer
Summary: This study explores the relationship between intelligence and personality using responses from applicants to teacher training studies. The findings indicate that there is no consistent variation in personality responses among individuals with higher intelligence, but individuals with higher neuroticism have higher inter-scale correlations for intelligence measures. Additionally, the study also suggests that intelligence can impact the structure of multiscale personality measures, as lower intelligence scores are associated with higher inter-scale correlations for personality scales.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Bram Van Bockstaele, James Tough, Frances Meeten, Colette R. Hirsch, Elaine Fox, Lies Notebaert
Summary: Using a task-switching paradigm, this study compared high and low trait anxious participants and found that trait anxiety does not interfere with attentional shifting between different task sets. These findings provide new evidence for the relationship between trait anxiety and attentional shifting.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Ruhina Karani, Sharmishta Desai
Summary: Emotional intelligence plays a vital role in both personal and professional lives, but many individuals lack the ability to recognize and understand emotions. This paper proposes a digital approach for automatic evaluation of emotional intelligence and introduces four major factors - self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, and social relationships - with their respective weightages.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Jesus Alfonso D. Datu, Robert L. Tang
Summary: This study examined the associations between positivity resonance and relatedness needs satisfaction, as well as psychological flourishing, among young adults in the Philippines. The results showed a positive link between positivity resonance and psychological flourishing through its association with relatedness needs satisfaction. This study enriches our understanding of the interpersonal processes underlying positive resonance and mental health functioning.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Francesca Lionetti, Raynae Shontae Casandra Dumpfrey, Juliette Richetin, Mirco Fasolo, Annalaura Nocentini, Barbara Penolazzi, Michael Pluess, Alessandra Santona, Maria Spinelli, Emanuele Preti
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the distinctiveness of Environmental Sensitivity (ES) captured by the Highly Sensitive Person 12-item scale (HSP-12) from traditional personality traits and its independent contribution to psychological adjustment, as well as the influence of rearing environment. The study also explored the psychometric properties of HSP-12 and its invariance across countries (UK and Italy) and samples (university and general population). The results provided evidence that ES can be reliably assessed using HSP-12 across different countries and groups, and it is distinguishable from established personality traits. ES was found to be associated with lower well-being and negative affect beyond personality, and a caring environment played a buffering role.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Jane Phillips, Chet Robie
Summary: The use of generative AI large language models (LLMs) presents challenges in detecting deception in personality tests. The study finds that GPT-4 performs better in personality assessments and highlights the need for further research to address the challenges posed by advancing AI technology in testing.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Hyemin Han
Summary: This study explored the association between components constituting the basis for moral and optimal human functioning, including moral reasoning, moral identity, empathy, and purpose, through network analysis. Factor scores were used instead of composite scores for more accurate estimation. The results showed significant associations within and between the examined factors in the network. Despite the network invariance, the high civic engagement group demonstrated higher global connectivity and centrality indicators. These findings have implications for research on moral functioning based on moral psychology and virtue ethics.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Anamarija Dosenovic, Bojana M. Dinic
Summary: This study investigates the direct and indirect effects of the Dark Tetrad traits on beliefs in conspiracy theories. The results show that Machiavellianism, primary psychopathy, and secondary psychopathy have a direct positive influence on conspiracy beliefs. The rational cognitive style acts as a significant mediator, while the experiential cognitive style does not have a significant impact.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Kimmo Sorjonen, Bo Melin, Gustav Nilsonne
Summary: Ability tilts refer to differences within individuals in different abilities, which have genetic heritability and environmental plasticity. However, it is shown through simulations that the heritability and environmentability of ability tilts are spurious consequences of the heritability and environmentability of the constituent variables.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Joanna Vint, Geoffrey S. Rachor, Steven Taylor, Gordon J. G. Asmundson
Summary: Researchers have found a relationship between narcissism and pandemic attitudes and behaviors. Individuals with high levels of narcissism are more likely to disregard public health interventions, show COVID-19 disregard, have anti-vaccination attitudes, and have a stronger sense of entitlement. Men with high levels of narcissism are more likely than women with high levels of narcissism to not adhere to public health interventions and show COVID-19 disregard.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
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Psychology, Social
Stephen Foster, Jasmine Cross
Summary: This research examines the relationships between the Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) and support for different types of doxxing behaviors. Results show that all three Dark Triad traits are associated with greater support for doxxing. The study also finds that Machiavellianism and psychopathy have significant indirect effects on prank and bias doxxing behaviors through empathy, while narcissism has indirect effects in the opposite direction.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
