The aim of this study was to assess the specificity of the association between temperamental vulnerability, character deficits, and Borderline personality disorder (BPD), controlling for the effects of attachment patterns. A total of 44 BPD patients were compared with 98 non-BPD patients with other cluster B Personality Disorder (PD) diagnoses, 39 patients with any cluster A or cluster C PD dia...

In a cross-comparison study, the Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) personality profile was administered to 28 probable pathological gamblers (PPGs), 32 nonpathological gamblers (non-PGs), and 65 controls. As a screening device, the validated Italian version of the South Oak Gambling Screen was administered to all subjects. Novelty Seeking (NS) values were higher in PPGs in c...

In response to comments by Perugini and Richetin and by Ashton, we discuss the reference-group effect as a potential source of distortion in cross-cultural comparisons and suggest some research designs to test its nature and importance. We argue that laboratory studies of personality are of limited utility in understanding personality questionnaire responses in real life. We summarise evidence ...

The author describes his own concept of happiness, which he has derived from an original theory of personality. Personality structure consists of four subsystems: motivational, executive, egotic, and character. The definition of happiness as a synergic unity of joy, bliss, self-actualization, and meaning comes from the concept of saturation of these personality substructures. Further he focuses...

For the human-robot communicative interaction, it is difficult to design robots behavior which is preferable to human. In this paper, therefore, we propose an approach to personality characterization of the face robot generated by reinforcement learning with human instruction, and investigate its characteristics from some real human-robot interaction. We found that the face robot personality ch...

This paper introduces an approach for the incorporation of interesting and compelling characters in automatically generated interactive narrative. The approach is based on the development of a computational model that enables virtual characters to have distinct and welldefined personalities. In this model, character personality is founded on the hypothesis that choices that lead to actions can ...

The field known as "culture and personality studies" in the middle decades of the 20th century was a precursor of contemporary cross-cultural research on personality. Its rejection by anthropologists and sociologists after 1950 was accompanied by stereotypes that have hardened into myth and obscured its character and relevance for contemporary investigators. This article dispels some prevalent ...

We describe an architecture for constructing a character-based agent based on speech and graphical interactions. The architecture uses models of emotions and personality encoded as Bayesian networks to 1) diagnose the emotions and personality of the user, and 2) generate appropriate behavior by an automated agent in response to the user’s input. Classes of interaction that are interpreted and/o...

OBJECTIVE Panic disorder (PD) is frequently comorbid with insomnia, which could exacerbate panic symptoms and contribute to PD relapse. Research has suggested that characteristics are implicated in both PD and insomnia. However, there are no reports examining whether temperament and character affect insomnia in PD. Thus, we examined the relationship between insomnia and personality characterist...