BACKGROUND Co-morbid psychiatric disorders affect prognosis, psychosocial adjustment and post-surgery satisfaction in patients with gender identity disorder. In this paper, we assessed the frequency of personality disorders in Iranian GID patients. METHODS Seventy- three patients requesting sex reassignment surgery (SRS) were recruited for this crosssectional study. Of the participants, 57.5%...

In this paper, the social constructivist’s dramaturgical model of personality is used to define the field of artificial personality for embodied agents. The dramaturgical model views personality from three perspectives: that of the actor (which is concerned with the internal organization of personality and its expression), that of the observer (which is concerned with the perception and interpr...

Can human-normed personality scales alone give us a full picture of the attribution of personality to virtual agents? In humans, personality traits are often immediately ascribed: first impressions, influenced by posture and gesture, can be strong, lasting and accurate. Is there a similar immediate attribution of personality for virtual agents that can be similarly influenced by posture and ges...

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One of the currently most important discussions in artificial intelligence is modeling personality and emotion in artificial intelligence, chiefly in Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI). The purpose of this research is designing a general model that identifies a user’s affective status based on user’s personality and emotion. The proposed model is composed of two main modules: personality and emot...

OBJECTIVE This study compared three-dimensional representations of DSM-IV personality disorders and standard categories with respect to their associations with psychosocial functioning. METHOD Six hundred sixty-eight patients with semistructured interview diagnoses of schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorders or with major depressive disorder and no pers...

Two hundred twenty-four first-degree relatives of patients with psychotic disorders were administered the Structured Interview for DSM-III Personality Disorders (SIDP) and completed a self-report instrument to assess dimensions of the five-factor model of personality. All of the DSM-III personality disorders were related to one or more dimensions of the five personality factors; however, the co...

OBJECTIVE The authors sought to determine whether personality disorders diagnosed during a depressive episode have long-term outcomes more typical of those of other patients with personality disorders or those of patients with noncomorbid major depression. METHOD The authors used 6-year outcome data collected from the multisite Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS). Di...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the presented studies was to empirically analyze the relation between the symptoms of personality disorders and the structure of identity-related senses. The analyses were conducted within two models - based on Millon's theory of personality and DSM-IV personality disorder classification system. METHODS In the studies, a total of 197 university students of various majors...

This article evaluates a comparative approach to personality and health research. We (1) review evidence showing that personality exists and can be measured in animals, (2) illustrate the benefits of animal studies for human personality research, (3) illustrate the benefits of human studies for animal personality research, and (4) provide guidelines for making cross-species comparisons. We conc...