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Slobodskaya, Helena R.; Kuznetsova, Valeriya B. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
The study examined the contribution of reinforcement sensitivity to childhood personality at three levels of the hierarchical structure, mid-level traits, the Big Five and two higher-order factors, and the moderating role of sex and age in a sample of 3-18-year-olds. The canonical correlation analyses indicated that reinforcement sensitivity and…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Personality, Child Development, Personality Traits
Carr, Joel L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study is to examine the differences between groups of psychology students and groups of psychology professionals based on the personality trait of Extraversion, and its facets, as measured by the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992). Previous applications of the NEO PI-R have focused on…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Psychology, Personality Traits, Graduate Students
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Hooker, Christine I.; Verosky, Sara C.; Miyakawa, Asako; Knight, Robert T.; D'Esposito, Mark – Neuropsychologia, 2008
Fear and reward learning can occur through direct experience or observation. Both channels can enhance survival or create maladaptive behavior. We used fMRI to isolate neural mechanisms of observational fear and reward learning and investigate whether neural response varied according to individual differences in neuroticism and extraversion.…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Nonverbal Communication, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Personality
Blackwell, Patricia L. – Zero to Three (J), 2004
This article examines whether the idea of "temperament" is a useful construct for families to understand babies' and toddlers' behavior. The author suggests that "regulatory skill" may be a more neutral term than temperament for parents and practitioners to use in discussing individual differences among babies and toddlers and suggests that…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Personality, Parents, Individual Differences
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Oberlander, Jon; Gill, Alastair J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
To what extent does the wording and syntactic form of people's writing reflect their personalities? Using a bottom-up stratified corpus comparison, rather than the top-down content analysis techniques that have been used before, we examine a corpus of e-mail messages elicited from individuals of known personality, as measured by the Eysenck…
Descriptors: Personality, Computational Linguistics, Content Analysis, Individual Differences
Ginn, Charles W. – 1995
Functioning effectively within a family requires the ability to communicate with diverse and unique individual family members. Appreciating the different ways that people interact with one another may reduce the number of family disputes caused by lack of effective communication. This manual is designed as a practical guide to increasing…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Family Life, Family Needs, Family Relationship