{"title":"Catching up or putting them down? An investigation of employee divergent reactions to coworker conscientiousness","authors":"Qingxiong Weng, Yanfen Wang, Xiujuan Wang, Huanyu Qin","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on conscientiousness has primarily focused on the consequences of employees possessing higher conscientiousness. However, it is equally important to understand how employees react to others' higher conscientiousness (<em>e.g.</em>, coworkers). Drawing from the social comparison theory, we attempt to reveal employees' emotional and behavioral reactions to their coworkers' higher conscientiousness. Using 210 employee-coworker dyadic data collected from China, we found that coworkers' higher conscientiousness leads focal employees to experience either relative deprivation or inspiration, which is shaped by the extent of the focal employees' zero-sum mindset. Furthermore, we found that these relative deprivation and inspiration emotions motivate focal employees to engage in social undermining and help-seeking behavior toward their conscientious coworkers. These findings enhance the understanding of the specific reactions of employees to others' higher conscientiousness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113106"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427613","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":"Individual differences in perceiving disinformation sharing as opinion leadership: Effects of dark triad traits, need for uniqueness, and green identity","authors":"Elaine Wallace , Isabel Buil","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113105","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113105","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Disinformation about climate change is spreading on social media. When influencers (those with large followings on social media) post disinformation, other users may amplify it through liking or sharing. This paper examines individual differences in perceiving influencers as opinion leaders when they post climate change disinformation. In an online study with 313 US Instagram users, we explored the role of dark triad traits, need for uniqueness (NFU), and green identity. We also explored the impact of AI (virtual) and human influencers and the apparent consensus of others with the disinformation post. We found that dark triad traits and NFU were positively associated with perceptions of opinion leadership when influencers post disinformation. Green identity was negatively associated with these perceptions. Perceived opinion leadership was similar for AI and human influencers. Finally, those who perceived opinion leadership were likely to amplify the message through word of mouth and engagement (likes or shares).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113105"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143422279","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}
Adaeze Chukwudebe , M. Mookie C. Manalili , Liane Young , Stylianos Syropoulos
{"title":"Independence of intellect and ego relates to increased subjective well-being and decreased psychopathology","authors":"Adaeze Chukwudebe , M. Mookie C. Manalili , Liane Young , Stylianos Syropoulos","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The link between intellectual humility and well-being, especially across multiple outcomes of mental health, remains mostly unexplored. Intellectual humility involves an accurate understanding of the limitations and imperfections of one's knowledge and cognitive capabilities during the acquisition of new information. Being intellectually humble enables individuals to not feel threatened in the face of disagreements and leads to an openness in learning about alternative viewpoints. We investigated the relationship between intellectual humility and well-being in an exploratory study and a pre-registered replication (total <em>N</em> = 898). Results indicated that intellectual humility relates to higher meaning in life and flourishing, and lower levels of anxiety, depression, and psychological distress. Independence of Intellect and Ego, a key component of intellectual humility that captures the healthy separation between one's cognitive abilities and identity, appears to be the primary driver of these associations. Finally, these associations were robust to controlling for other factors (such as trait levels of agreeableness and modesty), indicating a consistent association between specific components of intellectual humility and positive and negative mental health outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113091"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143394696","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":"Implicit theories of men's preferred humor styles as a function of facial masculinity","authors":"Mitch Brown, Lindsey E. Eagan","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Physical appearance provides a basis for how perceivers infer the intentions of social targets, which may include their proclivity toward employing specific humor styles. Such inferences have recently been shown to emerge through bodily features connoting androgenic activity. Facial masculinity could similarly inform perceptions of men's humor styles. Participants estimated the proclivity to employ humor styles among male and female targets whose faces were experimentally manipulated to appear masculinized or feminized. Male faces were informative to perceptions of their proclivity toward specific humor styles, whereas female faces were not. Masculinized male faces connoted preferences for affiliative, aggressive, and self-enhancing humor. Feminized male faces connoted a preference for self-defeating humor. Results provide continued evidence for masculinized features providing a robust basis for heuristics of men's humor styles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113092"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143403099","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":"Socio-emotional stress regulation in infants with visual impairment: Exploring the role of maternal vocal and tactile behavior","authors":"Serena Grumi , Elena Capelli , Livio Provenzi , Federica Morelli , Beatrice Riva , Laura Carraro , Chiara Ghiberti , Antonella Luparia , Sabrina Signorini","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113104","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113104","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Early visual impairment (VI) may influence infants' socioemotional development and impact the quality of the parent-infant interaction. Understanding how caregiving contributes to shaping infants' socioemotional stress regulation in the presence of sensory visual impairments is essential for informing early interventions to support parent-child dyads.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Infants with VI (<em>n</em> = 24) and sighted counterparts (<em>n</em> = 21) participated with their mothers in a video-recorded 6-min Face-to-Face Still-Face (FFSF) procedure. Infants' positive and negative emotionality as well as maternal vocal and tactile stimulations were micro-analytically coded.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Infants with VI exhibited typical FFSF stress response when confronted with maternal still-face; nonetheless, their ability to engage positively during playful social interactions was lower compared to sighted counterparts. Maternal vocal and tactile behaviors were differently associated with infants' emotionality in the two groups, although they did not show significant group differences.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This study highlights the unique challenges faced by infants with VI in developing socioemotional stress regulation and the implications for maternal interactive behaviors. These results may inform early interventions focused in enhancing non-visual communication strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113104"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143403691","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}
Amanda Denes , Thana Suppiah , Margaret Bennett-Brown , Amanda N. Gesselman
{"title":"Exploring the associations among relationship-related attitudes, affection deprivation, and faking orgasm among heterosexual women in the United States","authors":"Amanda Denes , Thana Suppiah , Margaret Bennett-Brown , Amanda N. Gesselman","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study explored the associations among relationship-related (RR) attitudes, feeling deprived of affectionate touch, and the frequency of faking orgasm among a sample of 723 heterosexual women in the United States (<em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 39.63, 60.9% White) who were single at the time of survey completion. Contrary to the study hypotheses, the results revealed that RR attitudes (i.e., interest in seeking a committed relationship, preference for sex in a committed relationship, and readiness for a relationship) were not associated with a greater frequency of faking orgasm, and feeling deprived of affection did not moderate these associations. Further, a greater preference for sex within a committed romantic relationship was associated with faking orgasm <em>less</em> frequently, contrary to what was predicted. Post hoc analyses revealed that feeling deprived of affectionate touch was associated with more frequently faking orgasm. Additionally, among a restricted sample of women who had been single for the prior year, no significant associations emerged between RR attitudes and faking orgasm. The findings provide support for aspects of affection exchange theory and suggest that affection deprivation may be a more meaningful predictor of heterosexual women's tendencies to fake orgasm than their RR attitudes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113079"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143387159","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":"Psychological shadows: The Dark Tetrad and fraudulent shopping practices","authors":"Aaron Cohen","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113103","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113103","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fraudulent shopping practices, particularly fraudulent returns, result in significant financial losses for retailers and society. Despite this, the relationship between personality traits and such practices has received limited attention. This study explores the connection between Dark Tetrad traits and various types of fraudulent shopping behaviors. The sample comprised 250 US adults recruited through Prolific.</div><div>The findings indicate that Dark Tetrad traits are linked to different fraudulent shopping practices. Specifically, Machiavellianism positively influences impulsive buying behavior. Psychopathy is associated with both previous experiences of fraudulent shopping and a proclivity for consumer fraudulent returns, exhibiting a strong effect without significant influence from demographic variables. Narcissism emerges as the sole trait related to knowledge of return policies, while Machiavellianism uniquely correlates with intentions for online returns. In contrast, sadism shows no significant relationship with any fraudulent shopping behaviors.</div><div>The study concludes with practical and theoretical implications, highlighting the need for further research on this critical issue.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113103"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143394697","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":"Rethinking alexithymia in athletes: Barriers to help-seeking and opportunities for intervention","authors":"Yasutaka Ojio , Masaki Nishida","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Alexithymia, characterized by difficulties in identifying and expressing emotions, is notably prevalent among athletes. Inspired by a recent study (Graham et al., 2025), this perspective examines its role in mental health challenges, emphasizing barriers to help-seeking. Individuals with alexithymia face an increased risk of mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety. Integrating insights from related disciplines, we highlight the urgent need for culturally sensitive, technology-driven interventions tailored to athletes. These approaches hold promise for addressing unique challenges and promoting the mental well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 113102"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143387166","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}