Personality traits predict hierarchy rank in male rainbowfish social groups

Personality traits important in male fertility

Personality Traits Predict the Onset of Disease

While personality traits have been linked concurrently to health status and prospectively to outcomes such as mortality, it is currently unknown whether traits predict the diagnosis of a number of specific diseases (e.g., lung disease, heart disease, and stroke) that may account for their mortality effects more generally. A sample (N 1⁄4 6,904) of participants from the Health and Retirement Stu...

Personality traits prospectively predict verbal fluency in a lifespan sample.

In a community-dwelling sample (N = 4,790; age range 14-94), we examined whether personality traits prospectively predicted performance on a verbal fluency task. Open, extraverted, and emotionally stable participants had better verbal fluency. At the facet level, dispositionally happy and self-disciplined participants retrieved more words; those prone to anxiety and depression and those who wer...

Who punishes? Personality traits predict individual variation in punitive sentiment.

Cross-culturally, participants in public goods games reward participants and punish defectors to a degree beyond that warranted by rational, profit-maximizing considerations. Costly punishment, where individuals impose costs on defectors at a cost to themselves, is thought to promote the maintenance of cooperation. However, despite substantial variation in the extent to which people punish, lit...

Visualizing Personality Traits Derived from Social Media

Leveraging the findings in Psycholinguistic studies, we now can automatically compute an individual’s personality traits, including Big 5 traits, emotions, and human basic values, from one’s linguistic footprints left on social media. To help users interpret one’s personality traits derived from social media, we are building interactive visual analytic systems with a set of visual representatio...