Introduction What is the purpose of using email? Advantages of using email Reducing stress Cultural differences How can email be used for constructing, building knowledge, directing and guiding learners? Education a dynamic process A practical example of another online forum Personalised emails vs. discussion lists Advanced learners Anonymity Assumptions & good writing strategies What are the m...

This research is concerned with the processes by which individuals use social interaction to actively test hypotheses about other people. In four separate empirical investigations, female participants were provided with hypotheses about the personal attributes of other individuals ("targets"). Participants then prepared to test these hypotheses (i.e., that their targets were extraverts or that ...

Scholars have critically discussed numerous reports on gender representations in language textbooks, but much less attention has been paid to female characters depicted EFL textbooks used Islamic primary schools. To fill this gap, the current study dissects identities of two English proposed by schools and nationally all private Indonesia under global school association. Quantitative content an...

Despite the enormous popularity of Online Social Networking sites (OSNs; e.g., Facebook and Myspace), little research in psychology has been done on them. Two studies examining how personality is reflected in OSNs revealed several connections between the Big Five personality traits and self-reported Facebook-related behaviors and observable profile information. For example, extraversion predict...

The assumption that everyone wants to be happy is prevalent among psychologists and laypeople alike. The present investigation suggests that motives for happiness are not consistent across individuals or contexts. Three studies demonstrate that preferences for happiness vary as a function of trait extraversion and situational demands. When anticipating an effortful task that requires increased ...

One must consider both trait and state affect to predict individual differences in emotional processing. The present results document a novel trait-state interaction that is consistent with proposals concerning the epistemic functions of affect (A. R. Damasio, 1994). Four studies tested the effects of extraversion and mood on motivation-relevant processing. Study 1 measured naturally occurring ...

The present study focuses on a descriptive statistical analysis of the relationship between extraversion and introversion tendencies and various factors that can affect extraversion-introversion among engineering students in India. The factors included the native place, age, grades in English, use of social networking websites etc. The results indicated towards some interesting trends like more...

The relationship between reproductive success (number of biological children) and personality was explored in 1101 postmenopausal females from the Australian twin registry. The quadratic response surface relating fitness to extraversion (E) and neuroticism (N) showed a saddle point at intermediate levels of E and N. Selection was shown to be stabilizing, i.e., having an intermediate optimum, al...

Although social networking sites (SNSs) have attracted increased attention andmembers in recent years, there has been little research on it: particularly on how a users’ extroversion or introversion can affect their intention to pay for these services and what other factors might influence them. We therefore proposed and tested a model that measured the users’ value and satisfaction perspective...