Browsing by Subject "Personality"

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    Implicit Personality Theory: Sex-Differences in Factor Structure
    (1989) Kane, Michael
    On the primary bases of theorists such as Ashmore (1981), and Peabody (1988), this pilot study examined the influence of gender on implicit personality theory (IPT). Due to the lack of previous IPT studies involving sex-differences, solid hypotheses as to the qualitative nature of these sex-differences could not be generated. Subjects (Ss) were 53 college students (25 male; 28 female) who were divided into four groups on the basis of their own sex and on target sex (males rating males, males rating females, females rating males and females rating females). Ss performed a 1-9 rating task in which they evaluated the likelihood of specific personality traits coexisting with other traits in sex-specified targets. Factor analysis results indicated large structural and semantic differences in the IPT structures elicited by each subject group. Results were compared to Peabody's (1988) "Five Factors," and were discussed in relation to the importance of future study of sex-specific IPT.
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    Successful Entrepreneurs and Business Executives: Personality Traits That Lead to Success
    (2015) Graves, Earl; Le, Benjamin
    Researched different personality traits that were found amongst successful entrepreneurs and business executives.
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    The Bilingual Experience
    (2018) Rivera, Claudia; Lilgendahl, Jennifer
    The purpose of the present study was to provide an in-depth review of the existing literature pertaining to the study of bilingualism in three major avenues of study in psychological research. First, I discussed the cognitive benefits and deficits of being bilingual. Second, I considered the relationship between development and bilingualism. Finally, I turned to personality research to unpack the conflicting relationship that bilingualism and biculturalism have with personality. Ultimately, although there are a lot of compelling findings across these three areas of research, this analysis revealed some gaps and areas for possible future research.