Brian P. Meier , Michael Schaefer , Li-Jun Ji , Carlota Batres
{"title":"Cross-cultural evidence for an association between agreeableness and sweet taste preferences","authors":"Brian P. Meier , Michael Schaefer , Li-Jun Ji , Carlota Batres","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104547","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104547","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research has shown that a preference for sweet foods is associated with agreeableness. This association may be due to conceptual metaphors (a “sweetie”) that link sweet taste experiences to niceness. We examined the replicability and cross-cultural consistency of this effect in four samples from different countries (China, Germany, Mexico, & the U.S.). Participants (<em>N</em> = 1,629) completed a measure of agreeableness and two measures of sweet taste preferences. We found that agreeableness was significantly and positively correlated with two different measures of sweet taste preferences in all four samples with small effect sizes (<em>r</em>s = 0.10 to 18). The association between agreeableness and a sweet taste preference appears replicable and occurring across cultures at least in the samples studied.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142586539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors","authors":"Olivia E. Atherton , Rodica Ioana Damian","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104544","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104544","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using data from a retrospective pre-/post-longitudinal study of young adults impacted by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 (N = 330), we investigated the main and moderating effects of hurricane exposure and the Big Five personality traits on perceived changes in health and health behaviors. Linear regressions showed that more hurricane exposure was associated with worse perceived diet changes. People who were more extraverted tended to perceive better health changes, whereas people who were more neurotic tended to perceive worse overall health, sleep, diet, and exercise changes. The association between hurricane exposure and perceived diet changes was stronger for people higher in conscientiousness, such that at high levels of hurricane exposure, people who were more conscientious tended to perceive the worst diet changes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska , Artur Sawicki , Jarosław Piotrowski , Uri Lifshin , Mabelle Kretchner , John J. Skowronski , Constantine Sedikides , Peter K. Jonason , Mladen Adamovic , Attiso M.G. Agada , Oli Ahmed , Laith Al-Shawaf , Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah , Rahkman Ardi , Uzma Azam , Zana Babakr , Einar Baldvin Baldursson , Sergiu Băltătescu , Tomasz Baran , Konstantin Bochaver , Somayeh Zand
{"title":"Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism: Do they predict COVID-19 pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors?","authors":"Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska , Artur Sawicki , Jarosław Piotrowski , Uri Lifshin , Mabelle Kretchner , John J. Skowronski , Constantine Sedikides , Peter K. Jonason , Mladen Adamovic , Attiso M.G. Agada , Oli Ahmed , Laith Al-Shawaf , Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah , Rahkman Ardi , Uzma Azam , Zana Babakr , Einar Baldvin Baldursson , Sergiu Băltătescu , Tomasz Baran , Konstantin Bochaver , Somayeh Zand","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104542","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a multinational study (61 countries; <em>N</em> = 15,039), we examined how collective narcissists, both agentic (ACN) and communal (CCN), reacted cognitively (through endorsement of unfounded conspiracy and health beliefs) and behaviorally (via prevention, hoarding, and prosociality) to the pandemic. Higher ACN and CCN predicted greater endorsement of COVID-19 unfounded beliefs and higher likelihood of having recently engaged in pandemic-related prevention, hoarding, and prosociality. The predictive effects of ACN and CCN were independent, suggesting construct separability. Fear positively predicted endorsement of unfounded beliefs and behaviors, but the slope of that relation was flattened when ACN and CCN were particularly high. Finally, the relation between ACN or CCN and outcomes changed across countries varying in collective fear.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142425919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeewon Oh , Emily N. Tetreau , Mariah F. Purol , Eric S. Kim , William J. Chopik
{"title":"Optimism and pessimism were prospectively associated with adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Jeewon Oh , Emily N. Tetreau , Mariah F. Purol , Eric S. Kim , William J. Chopik","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104541","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study, we examined the association between optimism/pessimism before the pandemic and adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, optimism was associated with behaviors that reduce COVID-19 transmission and higher psychological well-being (βs>|.196|) through changes in social contacts (indirect effect βs> |.004|) and/or increases in physical activity (βs=|.01|). Separating optimism and pessimism, we found that only pessimism was associated with behaviors that reduce risk, but <em>both</em> optimism and pessimism were associated with psychological well-being. By investigating them in the context of new public health challenges, we found that while the presence of optimism and absence of pessimism may both be resources for well-being, the absence of pessimism may be particularly important for health-relevant behaviors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Age and gender differences in the value development of Dutch adults in 11 years of longitudinal data","authors":"Oscar Smallenbroek , Adrian Stanciu","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104540","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104540","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Value development over the life-span is rarely studied due to theory and data limitations. We use the LISS data, a Dutch longitudinal dataset, to study value change in adults aged 25–70 over 11 years from 2008 to 2019 (N=10,860), using the neo- socioanalyitcal model (NSM) as a theoretical framework. We find few cohort differences, differences between age groups and non-linear value change within individuals that continues until late adulthood. Gender differences in mean-levels are stable except in universalism and self-direction, while gender differences in rates of change are observed. We conclude that the NSM provides a fruitful framework to interpret value change as a maturation process toward becoming functioning members of society along gendered and age-graded normative stages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656624000886/pdfft?md5=113f136b7540f7f00d14c739c7cb239f&pid=1-s2.0-S0092656624000886-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits","authors":"Jess M. Williams, Mark Blagrove","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104539","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104539","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigated whether sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is associated with a perceptual advantage, rather than just heightened brain, emotional and behavioural reactivity. Participants (N = 222) were tested on detection and identification of visually degraded words at three levels of difficulty, and completed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) and the Big Five Inventory. The positive subscale of the HSPS predicted both the detection and identification of visually degraded stimuli, and beyond the Big Five traits. This contradicts claims that SPS is solely a combination of Big Five traits. Importantly, the perceptual advantage for highly sensitives may balance the disadvantages of being easily overwhelmed by stimuli and indicates separate evolutionary advantages and strategies for high and low SPS humans and other mammals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kibeom Lee , Reinout E. de Vries , Michael C. Ashton
{"title":"Self/observer agreement in personality assessment by observers’ relationship types","authors":"Kibeom Lee , Reinout E. de Vries , Michael C. Ashton","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104529","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104529","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examined two forms of self/observer agreement (correlational and mean-level) in personality using a Dutch university student sample (<em>N</em>=5,405) with self-reports and observer (informant) reports from parents, siblings, friends, and partners/spouses. Correlational self/observer agreement was strong across all HEXACO-PI-R scales and across relationship types (<span><math><mrow><mover><mrow><mi>r</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>¯</mo></mrow></mover></mrow></math></span> ≥ 0.59, but highest for partners). Regarding mean-level self/observer agreement, alleged positive bias in self-reports was not observed. Only Openness showed higher means for self-reports than for observer reports across all relationship types (<em>d</em> = 0.37). Mean observer report scores varied by relationship: people perceived their children as more honest and less anxious and perceived their siblings as less agreeable than other observers did. Partner reports showed the closest mean-level agreement with self-reports.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656624000771/pdfft?md5=b35202e898398e84438eb6c24081322c&pid=1-s2.0-S0092656624000771-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142241123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking through a glass onion: Exploring the validity of eye-tracking technology in capturing self-directed attention","authors":"Jean Monéger , Nicolas Noiret","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104538","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104538","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Self-directed attention is a central aspect in most psychological models in the clinical, social and personality literature. However, precise measures of self-directed attention are lacking. Building on recent methodological developments, the present study (N=104) provides an exploratory assessment of the Incidental Mirror Exposure (I-ME) paradigm combining reflective screens with eye-tracking devices to measure self-directed attention. Personality traits associated with self-directed attention were assessed to evaluate the theoretical validity of basic oculometric measures. We additionally suggest a novel measure of self-focus integrating time spent looking at the self-reflecting area of the screen and depth of the gaze looking through the screen. Results underline the relevance of eye-tracking paradigms to capture maladaptive self-directed attention such as social anxiety, vulnerable narcissism, and self-absorption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656624000862/pdfft?md5=419a7d76936935c17f90983c9240beb1&pid=1-s2.0-S0092656624000862-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142150143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sam Henry , Dustin Wood , David M. Condon , Graham H. Lowman , René Mõttus
{"title":"Using multi-rater and test-retest data to detect overlap within and between psychological scales","authors":"Sam Henry , Dustin Wood , David M. Condon , Graham H. Lowman , René Mõttus","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104530","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104530","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Correlations estimated in single-source data provide uninterpretable estimates of empirical overlap between scales. We describe a model to adjust correlations for errors and biases using test–retest and multi-rater data and compare adjusted correlations among individual items with their human-rated semantic similarity (<em>SS</em>). We expected adjusted correlations to predict <em>SS</em> better than unadjusted correlations and exceed <em>SS</em> in absolute magnitude. While unadjusted and adjusted correlations predicted <em>SS</em> rankings equally well across all items, adjusted correlations were superior where items were judged most semantically redundant in meaning. Retest- and agreement-adjusted correlations were usually higher than <em>SS</em>, whereas unadjusted correlations often underestimated <em>SS</em>. We discuss uses of test–retest and multi-rater data for identifying construct redundancy and argue <em>SS</em> often underestimates variables’ empirical overlap.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142228505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pia K. Andresen, Noémi K. Schuurman, Ellen L. Hamaker
{"title":"How to measure and model personality traits in everyday life: A qualitative analysis of 300 big five personality items","authors":"Pia K. Andresen, Noémi K. Schuurman, Ellen L. Hamaker","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104528","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104528","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Personality traits are often described with reference to momentary patterns in experiences and behaviors. In this paper, we consider how such personality manifestations can be measured and modeled more directly within intensive-longitudinal research. Specifically, we evaluated 300 items from the international personality item pool with respect to: a) how the described behavior relates to situational factors; and b) which statistic most accurately quantifies the implied pattern. Our results give rise to three critical observations. First, most patterns only occur within certain contexts, rather than being context independent. Second, traits are mostly described as dynamic patterns on differing timescales. Third, the mean of a person across many repeated measures is poorly suited to capture most patterns of personality in daily life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009265662400076X/pdfft?md5=52ffd44231b693585528b13ad074e194&pid=1-s2.0-S009265662400076X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142076158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}