The present study tests the relationships between the three frequently used personality models evaluated by the Temperament Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R), Neuroticism Extraversion Openness Five Factor Inventory - Revised (NEO-FFI-R) and Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire-50- Cross-Cultural (ZKPQ-50-CC). The results were obtained with a sample of 928 volunteer subjects from the ge...

The aim of this study was to compare the psychometric properties (normal distribution values, reliabilities and factor structure) of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA-PQ) and the Temperament and Character Inventory revised (TCI-R). The total sample consisted of 482 subjects (53.1% men and 46.9% women) from diverse age. Results showed somewhat better psychometric propert...

BACKGROUND Population of online consumers increases rapidly, but the decision-making styles of online consumers and psychiatric denominators such as the personality correlates remain unclear. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In 196 traditional, and 196 age-, education- and gender-matched online consumers, we have tested the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) and the Consumer Style Invento...

0191 January 2008 | Volume 6 | Issue 1 | e5 | e23 Correction: Quantitative Characteristics of Gene Regulation by Small RNA Erel Levine, Zhongge Zhang, Thomas Kuhlman, Terence Hwa Correction for: Levine E, Zhang Z, Kuhlman T, Hwa T (2007) Quantitative characteristics of gene regulation by small RNA. PLoS Biol 5(9): e229. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050229 The authors would like to add the second a...

The horrific nature of murder using different types of weapons has been an important focal point of many criminological studies. Weapons that are used in murders seem to play dominant roles in murder investigations as they may provide information leading to arrest. The established factors for weapon usage include environmental context, demography and availability of weapons. However, there is i...

BACKGROUND The 7-item Game Addiction Scale (GAS) is a used to screen for addictive game use. Both cross cross-linguistic validation and validation in French and German is needed in adult samples. The objective of the study is to assess the factorial structure of the French and German versions of the GAS among adults. METHODS Two samples of men from French (N = 3318) and German (N = 2665) lang...

This study examined the behavioral effects of d-amphetamine and recreational activities, alone in combination, high low impulsive sensation seekers. Healthy 18-27 year-old participants, scoring upper (N=8) or lower third college students on sensation-seeking scale Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire, completed eight test days which sessions were before (i.e., baseline) 60, 120 180 minut...

OBJECTIVE To examine how factors such as pubertal status, sensation-seeking, and impulsivity are related to substance use (cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana) in high school students and examine these associations by gender. METHODS Ten public high schools in Connecticut participated in a survey of high-risk behaviors. Adolescents from grades 9 to 12 (N = 3068) completed measures of physical ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The line bisection error to the left of the true center has been interpreted as a relative right hemisphere activation, which might relate to the subject's emotional state. Considering that patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) or treatment-resistant depression (TRD) often have negative emotions, we hypothesized that these patients would bisect lines signifi...