The empirical study of personality differences is sometimes like a rough ride through a desert without orientation (lacking constructs, established methods, and replicable empirical findings), sometimes like an expedition into a jungle (facing an inextricable net of many similar but non-identical constructs, diverse established methods, and contradictory findings), and sometimes like a puzzle (...

Personality theory illuminates recurring problems in law school teaching. While the roots of modern personality theory extend back to Hippocrates and the theory of the four humors, contemporary ideas owe much to Carl Jung’s magisterial book, Psychological Types. Jung’s work gave us the categories of introvert and extrovert, as it explored what has come to be understood as the cognitive bases fo...

Are the words that people use indicative of their personality type preferences? In this paper, it is hypothesized that word-usage is not independent of personality type, as measured by the MyersBriggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality assessment tool. In-class writing samples were taken from 40 graduate students along with the MBTI. The experiment utilizes probabilistic and nonprobabilistic cla...

ICT competency frameworks establish the definition of competences required and deployed by ICT professionals. Job profiles articulate competencies together with an organization needs, objectives and constraints. The evolution of the software industry impacts personality trends in the profession. This work-in-progress studies the relationship between competencies, profiles and personality types.

Introduction: Studies on behavioral patterns and personality traits play a critical role in the prediction of healthy or unhealthy behaviors and identification of high-risk individuals for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in order to implement preventive strategies. This study aimed to compare personality types in individuals with and without CVD based on the enneagram of personality. Materials a...

Despite the advances in argumentation on group decision negotiation there is a need to simulate and identify the personality of participants. To make participants’ agents more human-like and to increase their flexibility in the negotiation process in group decision-making, the authors investigated the role of personality behaviours of participants applied to the conflict style theme. The negoti...

The present study investigated the influence of personality on exercise-induced mood changes. It was hypothesised that (a) exercise would be associated with significant mood enhancement across all personality types, (b) extroversion would be associated with positive mood and neuroticism with negative mood both pre- and post-exercise, and (c) personality measures would interact with exercise-ind...

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in exploring personality differences to improve work experience in software organizations. This study presents a personality assessment process conducted on 382 software practitioners using the Keirsey Temperament Sorter II (KTS-II). The primary goal of this assessment is to explore the personality temperaments of software practitioners wor...