The present experiment examines the effects of extraversion and consumption of alcohol on facial and verbal indicators of humor-induced positive affect. Sixty one female students were placed into one of three alcohol conditions (no ethanol, low dose, high dose) and were exposed to 30 slides containing jokes or cartoons. Facial measurements of smiling and laughter, funniness and aversiveness of ...

People divide their time unequally among their social contacts due to time constraints and varying strength of relationships. It was found that high diversity of social communication, dividing time more evenly among social contacts, is correlated with economic well-being both at macro and micro levels. Besides economic well-being, it is not clear how the diversity of social communication is als...

Eysenck (1981) proposed that the personality dimension of introversion- extraversion (E) reflects individual differences in a cortical arousal system modulated by reticulothalamic- cortical pathways: it is chronically more active in introverts relative to extraverts and influences cognitive performance in interaction with task parameters. A circuit with connections to this system, including the...

Introduction Contemporary children practically live in cyberspace, constantly using various devices,and many of them have an addiction that leads to violations their mental and physical formation. Objectives Based on the examination suffering cyber with sings clinical manifestations determine targets form ccmbined correctional rehabilitation system. Methods The investigation based psychiatric n...

The understanding of introverts is minimal, but the term introvert has become widespread, adding to stigma against even more. One way overcome provide correct information about and extrovert personality types how they work in us. There a need for mutual acceptance between those who stigmatize receive stigma. Efforts are being made so that can be removed social campaigns carry out understanding....

INTRODUCTION Our first impression of other people is greatly affected by our previous experiences. Schematic processing, proposed in social psychology, explains our behavior in interacting with other people. It suggests existence of different schemas in our brain for different groups of people, e.g., extroverts, introverts, shy, women, men, etc. and also schemas related to special people like o...

The study was aimed to determine whether both performance level and performance decrement differ across hemispheres in difficult signal detection task. Sixty-five subjects had to detect the threshold auditory signal presented to the left/right ears randomly. Both hits and false alarm rate were significantly higher, whereas reaction time was shorter in the right hemisphere (RH) than in left one ...

Effects of extraversion, impulsivity, neuroticism and achievement motivation were investigated in prolonged signal detection task. Sixty-five subjects detected threshold auditory signal mixed with noise background. RT, d`, decision-making criterion index, bias of response confidence and measures of their dynamics were recorded. The introverts showed higher sensory sensitivity and stability of t...

The formation of a new education system based on the results that will be used by student in future. change approaches, methods and vectors caused technical progress renewed pedagogical mentality allows for wide use person-oriented education, paying attention to student's freedom learning. This method is definition individuality, self-evaluation each person as an individual. theoretical scienti...