By storing Personality Traits in User Profiles we enable Recommender Systems to deduce more interesting recommendations for users acting pro-actively in order to offer them products/services as a consequence of a prediction of their future needs and behavior. This paper is proposed to improve the robustness of recommendations by using psychological aspects such as Personality Traits. This paper...

There is evidence for differential stability in personality trait differences, even over decades. The authors used data from a sample of the Scottish Mental Survey, 1947 to study personality stability from childhood to older age. The 6-Day Sample (N = 1,208) were rated on six personality characteristics by their teachers at around age 14. In 2012, the authors traced as many of these participant...

This literature review examines 25 empirical articles regarding the effects of birth order on personality to determine whether this research supports Alfred Adler’s birth order theory. The research focused on a broad range of topics covering the complete lifespan and included such topics as relationships, executive functioning and mental health. Overall the research found that there is a signif...

Centenarians have been reported to share particular personality traits including low neuroticism and high extraversion and conscientiousness. Since these traits have moderate to high heritability and are associated with various health outcomes, personality appears linked to bio-genetic mechanisms which may contribute to exceptional longevity. Therefore, the present study sought to detect geneti...

The relationships between personality dimensions and aspects of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenics had been reported (Ramanathan 1984 a, 1984 b, 1984 c, 1985). Particularly, extraversion was found to be associated with coping behaviour in relation to auditory hallucinations in schizophrenics (Ramanathan 1984 c). Further exploration is necessary with regard to the relation between extrave...

personality disorder does not suddenly emerge at age eighteen years old. there are obvious links between early childhood temperament and the development of personality traits in later childhood. nevertheless, clinicians do not routinely assess aspects of a child’s personality as part of a mental health examination. this may stem from a fear of ‘labelling’ a child should any problems in personal...

All previous editions of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have described and assessed personality solely in terms of pathological categories. Nonetheless, there is compelling evidence that normal-range personality traits also provide clinically useful information, emphasizing the importance of thoroughly assessing both adaptive a...

Many aspects affect the way humans perform tasks, among others somebody’s personality and current exhaustion level. Under varying conditions the quality of the performance is known to vary as well, for example, due to biases that occur. This paper introduces a cognitive control model addressing these aspects. It has been formally specified, tested in simulations for various scenarios, and forma...