A snapshot of person and thing orientations: How individual differences in interest manifest in everyday life

2019 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 160-165
Author(s):  
Miranda M. McIntyre ◽  
William G. Graziano
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Everyday Life

Individual differences and lying in everyday life

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edel Ennis ◽  
Aldert Vrij ◽  
Claire Chance
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Everyday Life

Experimentally observed responses to humor are related to individual differences in emotion perception and regulation in everyday life

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilona Papousek ◽  
Günter Schulter ◽  
Helmut K. Lackner ◽  
Andrea Samson ◽  
H. Harald Freudenthaler
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Experimental Paradigm ◽  
Response Latencies ◽  
Adaptive Trait ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cognitive Understanding

AbstractThis study aimed to investigate the relevance of an individual's typical emotion perception and emotion regulation behavior to his or her responsiveness to humor. This was studied behaviorally by examining responses to different types of humorous stimuli in an experimental paradigm, in a sample of n = 54 participants aged between 18 to 41 years (29 women, 25 men). Individual differences in emotion perception and regulation were assessed by relevant subscales of an established self-report instrument. Higher scores on emotion perception were related to higher amusement ratings in response to the humorous stimuli. Higher scores on emotion regulation were associated with shorter response latencies for the amusement ratings, particularly when it was important to mentalize with the characters in the cartoons in order to understand the humor. The cognitive understanding of the humor was unaffected. The findings suggest that good emotion perception and emotion regulation skills may contribute to greater humor responsiveness in everyday life, which may be an adaptive trait promoting successful functioning and resilience.

Action regulation in old age: Time samples from everyday contexts

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra L. Klumb
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
Perceived Difficulty ◽  
The Moment

The operation of self-efficacy beliefs was investigated in a group of 81 participants between 73 and 97 years of age with intensive time samples including activities carried out at the moment a signal was received, their subjective difficulty, and concurrent mood in everyday life. In a two-level approach, occasion-level and person-level effects could be modelled simultaneously. Within individuals, productive activities were perceived more difficult, on average, than nonproductive ones. Furthermore, perceived difficulty was lower the more positive concurrent mood was rated. Variance in these intra-individual slopes was partially explained by inter-individual differences in self-belief of efficacy regarding everyday activities.

Individual Differences in the Moralization of Everyday Life

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Lovett ◽  
Alexander H. Jordan ◽  
Scott S. Wiltermuth
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Everyday Life

Pain in Infancy: Individual Differences

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Axia ◽  
Sabrina Bonichini ◽  
Franca Benini
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Blood Sampling ◽  
Medical Procedures ◽  
Painful Medical Procedures

Two patterns of reactions to painful medical procedures were found in infancy, i.e., continuous and interval patterns. Also, infants often in a good mood in everyday life (as reported by their mothers) showed pain more briefly after blood sampling, while infants often in a bad mood in everyday life showed pain longer.

scholarly journals The Interplay Between Absolute Language and Moral Reasoning on Endorsement of Moral Foundations

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Blankenship ◽  
Traci Y. Craig ◽  
Marielle G. Machacek
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Moral Choices

Morality – the subjective sense that humans discern between right and wrong – plays a ubiquitous role in everyday life. Deontological reasoning conceptualizes moral decision-making as rigid, such that many moral choices are forbidden or required. Not surprisingly, the language used in measures of deontological reasoning tends to be rigid, including phrases such as “always” and “never.” Two studies (N = 553) drawn from two different populations used commonly used measures of moral reasoning and measures of morality to examine the link between individual differences in deontological reasoning and language on the endorsement of moral foundations. Participants low on deontological reasoning generally showed less endorsement for moral principles when extreme language was used in the measures (relative to less extreme language).

scholarly journals Cognitive Ability in Everyday Life: The Utility of Open-Source Measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-363
Author(s):  
William Revelle ◽  
Elizabeth M. Dworak ◽  
David Condon
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Open Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
Assessment Measures

The measurement of individual differences in cognitive ability has a long and important history in psychology, but it has been impeded by the proprietary nature of most assessment measures. With the development of validated open-source measures of ability (collected in the International Cognitive Ability Resource, or ICAR, available at ICAR-project.com ), it is now possible for many researchers to assess ability in large surveys or small, lab-based studies without the expenses associated with proprietary measures. We review the history of ability measurement and discuss how the growing set of items included in ICAR allows ability assessments to be more generally available to all researchers.

Curiosity and Interest

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Silvia ◽  
Todd B. Kashdan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being

Recent years have seen renewed attention to curiosity and interest―recognizing, seeking out, and preferring things that are outside of one’s normal experience. In this chapter, we explore curiosity, where it fits in the larger scheme of positive emotions, how individual differences are assessed, the advantages of being curious in social relationships, links between curiosity and elements of well-being, and how it has been used in interventions to improve people’s quality of life. Our review emphasizes findings that show how curiosity operates in the laboratory and everyday life, and how, under certain conditions, curiosity can be a profound source of strength, or a liability. People who are regularly curious and willing to embrace the novelty, uncertainty, and challenges that are inevitable in everyday life have an advantage in creating a fulfilling existence compared with their less curious peers. Our review is designed to bring further attention to this underappreciated human universal.

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