The software industry has continued to grow over the past decade and there is now a need to provide education and hands-on training to students in various phases of software life cycle. Software design is one of the vital phases of the software development cycle. Psychological theories assert that not everybody is fit for all kind of tasks as people have different personality traits and abiliti...

A prototype model is presented that demonstrates the idea of modulating agent behavior using human personality type. The psychological theory of personality type known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is applied here. The MBTI theory defines four dichotomies to explain how individual humans differ in the ways that they perceive their environment, interact with others, and make decision...

BACKGROUND Tinnitus is a common and disturbing condition, reported by 10% to 20% of the general population. OBJECTIVE The authors sought to determine personality characteristics associated with tinnitus patients versus a control group of ear-nose-throat (ENT) patients without tinnitus. METHOD Adult chronic tinnitus sufferers (N=265) and ENT patients without tinnitus (N=265) participated in ...

This paper explores the use of personality type instruments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in a cross-cultural analysis of UK and Taiwanese Design students. Personality typing is now widely used in the western business community for Human Resources, training, counseling and career planning, however very little information exists with regards to the Asian personality type. The results ...

OBJECTIVE To assess longitudinal changes in genetic and environmental influences on Type D personality and its subcomponents negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI) over a 9-year period. Most personality constructs have good retest reliability over long periods, with stability attributed to genes, and changes to environmental factors. Type D personality is stable across an 18-month...

Cohen's (1967) method of determining compliant, aggressive and detached personality types is modified and employed in exploring the relationship between personality types and generalized purchasing involvement. The hypothesis that the detached personality type will be less involved in purchasing than compliant or aggressive personality types is tested and supported. Theoretical implications are...

Despite the widespread popular belief in Japan about a relationship between personality and ABO blood type, this association has not been empirically substantiated. This study provides more robust evidence that there is no relationship between blood type and personality, through a secondary analysis of large-scale survey data. Recent data (after 2000) were collected using large-scale random sam...

BACKGROUND Personality factors have shown to be related to mortality, morbidity, and psychological aspects in chronic disorders. Little is known about the effect of personality on disease severity in sarcoidosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of Type D personality and its relation with relevant clinical characteristics in sarcoidosis ...