BACKGROUND Patients with major depression and borderline personality disorder are characterised by a distorted perception of other people's intentions. Deficits in mental state decoding are thought to be the underlying cause of this clinical feature. AIMS To examine, using meta-analysis, whether mental state decoding abilities in patients with major depression and borderline personality disor...

The notion of person-environment fit implies that personal and contextual factors interact in influencing important life outcomes. Using data from 8,458 employed individuals, we examined the combined effects of individuals' actual personality traits and jobs' expert-rated personality demands on earnings. Results from a response surface analysis indicated that the fit between individuals' actual...

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...

Several studies have demonstrated some accuracy in personality attribution using only visual appearance. Using composite images of those scoring high and low on a particular trait, the current study shows that judges perform better than chance in guessing others' personality, particularly for the traits conscientiousness and extraversion. This study also shows that attractiveness, masculinity a...