Personality and individual differences : theory, assessment, and application / editors, Niko Tiliopoulos, Simon Boag.

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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES: THEORY, ASSESSMENT, AND APPLICATION; PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES: THEORY, ASSESSMENT, AND APPLICATION ; CONTENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; ABSTRACT ; CULTURE AND PERSONALITY ; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ; CLINICAL DIMENSIONS ; ORGANISATION AND SCOPE ; FINAL COMMENTS ; REFERENCES ; PART A: PROCESSES AND PERFORMANCE ; INTEGRATING THE STUDY OF WITHIN- AND BETWEEN-PERSON VARIABILITY IN PERSONALITY AT WORK; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; BACKGROUND TO AN INTEGRATED APPROACH; Experience Sampling Method (ESM)

Hierarchical Linear Modelling QUESTIONS WITHIN AN INTEGRATED APPROACH ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; DELIBERATE PRACTICE AND THE TRAINABILITY OF FLUID COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; JAEGGI, ET AL.'S RESEARCH; EVALUATION OF JAEGGI, ET AL.'S FINDINGS; WHY HAS THIS INTERVENTION WORKED? ; CAN DELIBERATE PRACTICE LEAD TO GF GAINS? ; WHAT IS BEING MODIFIED? IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSTRUCT DEFINITIONS ; FLUID INTELLIGENCE (GF) ; Definitions of Gf ; Gf and Learning ; Gf and Neuronal Plasticity ; WORKING MEMORY (WM) ; Definitions of WM ; WM as a System of Executive Processes.

NON-COGNITIVE MODERATORS OF GF GAINS Implicit Theories regarding Malleability of Intelligence ; Personality and Goal Orientation ; IMPLICATIONS FOR REAL-WORLD ACHIEVEMENTS; CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; REFERENCES ; THE EFFECTS OF COMPARISON STATUS AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL COMPARISON TENDENCIES ON THE EXPERIENCE OF SCHADENFREUDE; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; LINKING SCHADENFREUDE AND SOCIAL COMPARISON THEORY ; SCHADENFREUDE AND TARGET COMPARISON STATUS ; SCHADENFREUDE AND SOCIAL COMPARISON ORIENTATION ; SCHADENFREUDE AND DIRECTIONAL SOCIAL COMPARISON TENDENCIES.

THE PRESENT STUDY METHOD ; Participants and Design ; Materials ; Vignettes ; Schadenfreude Scale ; Social Comparison Tendencies ; Procedure ; RESULTS ; Preliminary Analyses ; Primary Analyses ; Hypothesis 1 ; Hypothesis 2 ; Hypothesis 3 ; DISCUSSION ; UPWARD COMPARISON PROCESSES AND SCHADENFREUDE ; UPWARD SOCIAL COMPARISON TENDENCIES AND SCHADENFREUDE; DOWNWARD COMPARISON PROCESSES AND SCHADENFREUDE ; METHODOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES.

PROCESSING STYLE AND SOCIAL COMPARISON OUTCOMES: ASSIMILATION AND CONTRAST EFFECTS IN AUTOMATIC BEHAVIOUR AND SELF-EVALUATIONABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION; THE GLOBAL/LOCAL MODEL OF ASSIMILATION AND CONTRAST ; GLOMO and Self-evaluation ; GLOMO and Automatic Behaviour ; THE PRESENT RESEARCH ; Hypotheses ; Supplementary Investigation ; METHOD ; Participants ; Materials ; Induction of Global/Local Processing ; Social Comparison Vignettes ; Assessment Materials ; Objective Self-evaluation ; Subjective Self-evaluation ; Automatic Behaviour ; Procedure ; RESULTS ; Preliminary Analysis ; Main Analysis.

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