Physical risk taking activities can be classified along a continuum ranging from prosociality to antisociality, the risky sports being in an intermediate point of that hypothetical dimension. The present study was aimed at identifying the personality variables common to those who engage in physical risky activities, and those that differentiate among the groups along the continuum. The sample c...

psychological criticism is considered as a new field in literary criticism, that critic, review and analyzes the literary work therein based on principles of psychology. the present study, address to the personality psychology criticism of mutanabbi poetry as battle, conflict, and tension within three levels of personality: id, ego and superego. the objectives of this paper include: 1-avoid fro...

Categorical disease models of personality disorder currently dominate in the DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 diagnostic systems. In preparation for DSM-V, these models have been questioned in light of evidence and widely held beliefs that disorders of personality are extreme variants of normal personality. Unfortunately, problems arise in trying to produce a dimensional model of abnormal and normal person...

The social constructivists provide a dramaturgical model of personality that is particularly valuable in understanding artificial personality for embodied agents. According to the social constructivists, personality is the product of three distinct perspectives: that of the actor, which entails the expression of personality, that of the observer, which involves the interpretation or impression ...

OBJECTIVE Personality traits are associated with well-being, but the precise correlates vary across well-being dimensions and within each Big Five domain. This study is the first to examine the unique associations between the Big Five aspects (rather than facets) and multiple well-being dimensions. METHOD Two samples of U.S. participants (total N = 706; Mage  = 36.17; 54% female) recruited vi...

background: research demonstrates that most of the menopausal symptoms and problems are the reflection of individual andsocial circumstances rather than the endocrine events of the menopause. as majority of women live 30 years or more through postmenopausal period, treatment and following up their problems during this period is among the main duties of a midwife. the aim of this study is to det...

In the present study we asked whether it is possible to decode personality traits from resting state EEG data. EEG was recorded from a large sample of subjects (n = 289) who had answered questionnaires measuring personality trait scores of the five dimensions as well as the 10 subordinate aspects of the Big Five. Machine learning algorithms were used to build a classifier to predict each person...