This narrative study examined the process of personal storytelling between college-age friends who were similarly introverted or extraverted. Participants were 19 introverted and 20 extraverted same-sex pairs (49 percent female) who had been friends for an average of 18 months. Stories emerged spontaneously during 10-minute catch-up conversations. Extraverted friends more often told stories tha...

In a community-dwelling sample (N = 4,790; age range 14-94), we examined whether personality traits prospectively predicted performance on a verbal fluency task. Open, extraverted, and emotionally stable participants had better verbal fluency. At the facet level, dispositionally happy and self-disciplined participants retrieved more words; those prone to anxiety and depression and those who wer...

In the new paradigm of computer use, the computer ceases to exist as an integrated multi-task device, but disintegrates into a task-oriented collection of networked devices. These devices do not resemble to computers yet they have computational abilities. None of these concepts will be realised without appropriate support from communication technologies -P2P networking being the primary candida...

to present with depressive features, while the same stress factors would lead women in developed country to come in psychiatry clinic with features of substance and alcohol dependence. Ours is a male dominated country where women are laid back in some or the other way. Comparatively, females are still far away from the light of literature and even our women are not as much extrovert to open up ...

This paper presents and evaluates two location sensing algorithms that we have developed and demonstrated. We present comparative accuracy results, complexity of training the system, and total power consumption required to perform scanning. Our method reduces training complexity by a factor of eight, and yields noticeable better accuracy. The paper also introduces a location information privacy...

This study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between self-control and extrovert personality with impulsive buying. The subjects in this were online game players Indonesia. Samples taken using the purposive sampling technique table theory from Isaac & Michael determining number of samples obtained 272 respondents. analysis used multiple linear regression results show that sig...

in recent years, language-learning research has been more concerned with factors that may affect the choice of learning strategies among learners. in studies conducted by cohen (1990), ehrman and oxford (1995), macintyre and gardner (1989) and reid (1987), these factors have been identified as motivation, gender, learning style, previous experience, and personality type. this study attempts to ...