William P. Hart, Danielle E. Wahlers, Bella C. Roberts
{"title":"Profiling left- and right-wing authoritarianism and their facets on tactical self-presentation: Convergences, divergences, and the space in between","authors":"William P. Hart, Danielle E. Wahlers, Bella C. Roberts","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113611","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113611","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite theoretical links between authoritarianism and tactical self-presentation, this connection remains underexplored. To advance this area, we compared left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) in terms of their self-presentational profiles. College participants (<em>N</em> = 457) completed multidimensional measures of LWA and RWA and reported their past use of these tactics. Self-presentational profiles of LWA and RWA showed mostly weak convergences, suggesting distinct approaches to self-presentation. Essentially, LWA was associated with enhanced use of opportunistic and egotistical tactics and reduced use of virtuous tactics, but RWA had mostly null relations to the tactics. However, more fine-grained analyses complicated these conclusions. Components within one authoritarian construct sometimes showed strong convergence with, and sometimes strong divergence from, the self-presentation profiles of the other authoritarian construct. Hence, the similarity between LWA and RWA on self-presentation depends on why someone is elevated in these constructs. The findings support a self-presentational framing of some authoritarian characteristics and extend understanding of the similarities and differences between LWA and RWA characteristics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 113611"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145927462","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}
Guilherme Miquelino Francisco, Natalia de Oliveira Santos, Giselle Pianowski, Lucas de Francisco Carvalho
{"title":"Mapping bridges between movie preferences, normal-range, and pathological personality traits through network analysis","authors":"Guilherme Miquelino Francisco, Natalia de Oliveira Santos, Giselle Pianowski, Lucas de Francisco Carvalho","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113644","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2026.113644","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study aimed to understand the relationship between cinematic preferences and both normal-range and pathological personality traits. To this end, an Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA) and a network analysis were performed on a sample of 1482 Brazilian participants aged 18 to 73 years (M = 29.83, SD = 9.45). The sample was composed mainly of women (73.88%), undergraduate students (32.87%), and individuals who self-identified as White (71.19%). Normal-range traits were measured using the Big Five Inventory-2 Short Form (BFI-2-S), pathological traits were assessed with the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 – Brief Form (PID-5-BF+), and film preferences were captured by the Measuring Onscreen Viewing Interests and Entertainment Styles (MOVIES) scale. First, an Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA) was employed to identify the latent structure of film preferences, yielding four latent clusters of film genres: Intense, Realistic, Fictitious, and Light. Subsequently, a network analysis mapped the associations between these clusters and personality traits, highlighting relationships with Openness, Conscientiousness, Negative Affect, and Psychoticism. These findings illustrate how cultural film preferences and personality traits interrelate, highlighting the potential of using such preferences as an indirect tool for assessing an individual's personality profile for therapeutic purposes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 113644"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145927461","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}
Katie J. Shillington , Julia Yates , Andrew M. Johnson
{"title":"A scoping review of kindness measurement tools","authors":"Katie J. Shillington , Julia Yates , Andrew M. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Kindness is a domain within positive psychology that has been found to have numerous psychological benefits. However, despite the fact that kindness is an evidence-informed and cost-effective strategy to improve individuals' wellbeing, operationalizing and measuring kindness continues to be a challenge. Therefore, the purpose of this scoping review was to explore what is known from the literature regarding existing validated measurements of kindness. Our search strategy was run in three bibliographic databases (i.e., PsycINFO, MEDLINE, and SCOPUS) and yielded 2019 citations. A total of 12 articles (describing 24 studies) met the eligibility criteria and were included in this review. The Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) criteria were used to evaluate each included study. Reliability, validity, and responsiveness measurement properties were gathered and evaluated against criteria for good measurement properties. The kindness subscale within the Compassion Scale, the Kindness Scale, and the Unconditional Self-Kindness Scale were the most psychometrically sound and effective at measuring kindness, but no scale was without limitations. It is recommended that researchers develop a kindness scale that (1) clearly differentiates kindness from compassion and is (2) both inclusive and culturally competent, taking into consideration the voices of marginalized groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 113616"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145927458","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":"Are difficulties finding a romantic partner associated with sexist beliefs? Exploring associations between mate value and mate access with hostile and benevolent sexism, and belief in sexism shift","authors":"Catharina Walldén , Annika Gunst , Jan Antfolk","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113610","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113610","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We tested the hypothesis that individual differences in difficulties finding a romantic partner are associated with sexism and belief in sexism shift. We hypothesized that, because heterosexual men with low (vs. high) mate value and low (vs. high) mate access face greater difficulties in finding a partner, they are more likely to hold sexist beliefs. We used self-reports of mate value, mate access, hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, and belief in sexism shift from 1604 Finnish adults. We examined associations between these self-reports by using multivariate multiple regression, controlling for political ideology, perceived sex ratio, relationship status, and partner search status. Higher mate value was associated with greater benevolent sexism, while those not searching for a partner and single women with more mate encounters reported lower benevolent sexism. In contrast, hostile sexism was higher among respondents reporting more possibilities with potential partners and among singles reporting more mate encounters. Male gender and political conservatism were also associated with hostile sexism and belief in sexism shift. Together, these findings highlight that associations between mate access, mate value, and sexist beliefs are complex and context-dependent, varying by relationship status, partner search-status, and type of sexism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"252 ","pages":"Article 113610"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145749116","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":"Spatiotemporal disruptions of reality perception in depersonalization","authors":"Julia Ayache , Malika Auvray , Anna Ciaunica","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113569","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113569","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Experiences of time and space are core constituents of the sense of bodily self. Depersonalization (DP) is a condition characterized by distressing feelings of estrangement from the self, body and the external world. While previous studies showed that perception of the space close to the body (i.e., peri-personal space) remains intact in DP, time perception is disrupted. The origin of this asymmetry remains an open question. Addressing this gap, this online study (<em>N =</em> 1338) investigated the relation between DP traits measured by the Cambridge Depersonalization Scale (CDS) and altered subjective experiences of body, time, and space perception. The results demonstrated strong relationships between CDS facets and distorted experiences of time, bodily self and space. When considering the shared variance of CDS facets, different patterns emerge. The <em>Anomalous Body Experiences</em> facet is associated with time <em>slowing down</em> and represented a core aspect of DP contributing to spatiotemporal disruptions. In contrast, the <em>Alienation from Surroundings</em> facet is associated with time <em>speeding up</em>, leading to different patterns of spatiotemporal disruptions. Altogether, these results suggest that distinct DP facets related to body and world perception need to be disentangled to better understand the mechanisms underlying atypical space and time perception in this population.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"252 ","pages":"Article 113569"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145659091","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}
Colin Xu , Caitlyn Kim , Katelyn Candido , Isabel Germano Salerni , Albena Ruseva
{"title":"Imposterism and perfectionism: Imposterism predicts rigid and self-critical perfectionism, but not narcissistic perfectionism","authors":"Colin Xu , Caitlyn Kim , Katelyn Candido , Isabel Germano Salerni , Albena Ruseva","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113628","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113628","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Imposter phenomenology, often colloquially referred to as “imposter syndrome,” describes the feeling of inadequacy and intellectual phoniness experienced by some high achieving individuals. We hypothesized that imposterism would be correlated with perfectionism, but this effect would differ by subtype of perfectionism.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We recruited a sample of 278 undergraduate students from the University of Pennsylvania. Perfectionism was measured with the Big Three Perfectionism Scale. Imposterism was measured with the Clance Imposter Scale, and factor analysis was used to identify three previously identified factors of discounting one's success, luck, and feeling like a fraud.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Imposterism was positively correlated with overall perfectionism. We found a significant interaction between imposterism and subtype of perfectionism, where imposterism was positively correlated with rigid and self-critical perfectionism, but not with narcissistic perfectionism. The discount latent factor of imposterism was specifically negatively correlated with narcissistic perfectionism.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Imposterism and perfectionism are closely related constructs, but the subtypes of rigid and self-critical perfectionism are more closely related to imposterism, while narcissistic perfectionism appears to have a null or inverse relationship.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 113628"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145885895","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}
Tobias Otterbring , Michał Folwarczny , Valdimar Sigurdsson
{"title":"Prompting pro-environmentalism through social proof: Trait conscientiousness moderates the effect of social proof on consumers' pro-environmental responses","authors":"Tobias Otterbring , Michał Folwarczny , Valdimar Sigurdsson","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113629","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113629","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainable consumption practices can drive environmental and societal benefits. One way of steering consumers in a desired direction is through the social proof principle, which posits that consumers are more inclined to exhibit a target behavior if they believe that many others already engage in said behavior. We conducted an online experiment (<em>N</em> = 376; US sample) to test whether reliance on social proof (vs. control) increases consumers' pro-environmental responses, and whether trait conscientiousness moderates this interplay. All included social proof messages outperformed the control condition, regardless of whether they were based on majority (vs. minority) information or dynamic (vs. static) social norms. Additionally, the social proof effect was particularly pronounced among consumers scoring low (vs. high) in trait conscientiousness, with these consumers typically exhibiting the least pro-environmental behaviors according to previous research. Taken together, the current findings carry important implications regarding ways to tackle climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 113629"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145885858","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}
Chloe L. Johnson, Adelaide Gleason, Jordan A. Booker
{"title":"Evidence of convergent and discriminant validity between sensory processing sensitivity and other individual difference measures","authors":"Chloe L. Johnson, Adelaide Gleason, Jordan A. Booker","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sensory processing sensitivity (sensitivity) involves the ways people differ in being attentive and responsive to bodily, social, and environmental cues. We aimed to build evidence that sensitivity is complementary to other individual differences and measures of personality, yet is not redundant with measures of temperament, traits, character, and narrative identity. We recruited 774 young adults from the central U.S. (<em>M</em> age = 18.9 years; 60.9 % women) and tested relations between sensitivity and other self-reports and narrative expressions of personality. Each dimension of sensitivity was significantly correlated with other measures of personality. These correlations were not so large as to suggest redundancy between measures. Further, sensitivity to emotional and physiological stimuli was related to the ways people changed expressions of narrative processing between positive-valence and negative-valence life stories. Findings fit existing arguments about the value of sensitivity as part of the personality science toolkit. We discuss how findings reinforce theory and show the relevance of sensitivity for areas of intervention and application. We identify areas to expand fruitful investigation of sensitivity. And we highlight a novel area of inquiry showcased by these findings: the potential of sensitivity to inform self-construction and narrative identity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"252 ","pages":"Article 113620"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145798501","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}