Personality dynamics

The Dynamics of Personality

psychotherapists, the former a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Dr. Kildahl, a clinical psychologist trained in psychoanalysis. Their book is divided into two sections. The first fifteen chapters deal with the formation of personality, and the individual's usual way of dealing with personal problems, which may or may not be ? healthy. In the second part of the book the authors deal with con...

Introducing Personality into Team Dynamics

If autonomous agents interact with people, they should achieve the suspension of disbelief in order to offer a good interaction experience to users. To achieve this it is important that the agents’ behaviours are consistent with a given personality since people have a tendency to attribute personality to interactive artifacts. The concept of personality is also useful to create diversity in mul...

Dynamics of the General Factor of Personality

Personality traits and ego-network dynamics

Strong and supportive social relationships are fundamental to our well-being. However, there are costs to their maintenance, resulting in a trade-off between quality and quantity, a typical strategy being to put a lot of effort on a few high-intensity relationships while maintaining larger numbers of less close relationships. It has also been shown that there are persistent individual differenc...

Bayesian Analysis of Individual Level Personality Dynamics

A Bayesian technique with analyses of within-person processes at the level of the individual is presented. The approach is used to examine whether the patterns of within-person responses on a 12-trial simulation task are consistent with the predictions of ITA theory (Dweck, 1999). ITA theory states that the performance of an individual with an entity theory of ability is more likely to spiral d...