Tendency to laugh is a stable trait: Findings from a round-robin conversation study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Wood ◽  
Emma Templeton ◽  
Jessica Moran Morrel ◽  
Frederick T. Schubert ◽  
Thalia Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Round Robin ◽  
Behavioral Trait ◽  
Personality Correlates ◽  
The People ◽  
Trait Level ◽  
Same Gender ◽  
Different Sources

Is the tendency to laugh a stable trait? What does the amount of laughter tell us about the personality and state of the producer, and how does their laughter influence the people around them? To answer these questions, we used a round-robin design where participants (N=66) engaged in 10 different conversations with 10 same-gender strangers. This design allowed us to determine state- and trait-level differences in how much people laugh and to isolate different sources of variability in the amount of laughter per conversation. More than half of the variability in the amount a person laughs is attributable to individual differences. This tendency to laugh negatively predicts conversation enjoyment. A smaller amount of variability in the amount people laugh is due to qualities of their conversation partners. Partners who tend to elicit others’ laughter are perceived as more relatable. We examined the personality correlates of laughter and found that less intellectual and less empathically-concerned participants (i.e., nonserious participants) produced and elicited more laughter. In summary, how much a person laughs is not a straightforward function of enjoyment. Instead, it is a behavioral trait associated with being perceived as relatable, supporting laughters’ proposed function of conveying harmless, nonserious intentions.

Visual disgust-elicitors produce an attentional blink independent of contextual and trait-level pathogen avoidance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Perone ◽  
David Vaughn Becker ◽  
Joshua M. Tybur
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Visual Attention ◽  
Attentional Blink ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Attentional Biases ◽  
Attentional Processing ◽  
Trait Level ◽  
Task Irrelevant ◽  
Pathogen Avoidance

Multiple studies report that disgust-eliciting stimuli are perceived as salient and subsequently capture selective attention. In the current study, we aimed to better understand the nature of temporal attentional biases toward disgust-eliciting stimuli and to investigate the extent to which these biases are sensitive to contextual and trait-level pathogen avoidance motives. Participants (N=116) performed in an Emotional Attentional Blink (EAB) task in which task-irrelevant disgust-eliciting, fear-eliciting, or neutral images preceded a target by 200, 500, or 800 milliseconds (i.e., lag two, five and eight respectively). They did so twice - once while not exposed to an odor, and once while exposed to either an odor that elicited disgust or an odor that did not - and completed a measure of disgust sensitivity. Results indicate that disgust-eliciting visual stimuli produced a greater attentional blink than neutral visual stimuli at lag two and a greater attentional blink than fear-eliciting visual stimuli at both lag two and at lag five. Neither the odor manipulations nor individual differences measures moderated this effect. We propose that visual attention is engaged for a longer period of time following disgust-eliciting stimuli because covert processes automatically initiate the evaluation of pathogen threats. The fact that state and trait pathogen avoidance do not influence this temporal attentional bias suggests that early attentional processing of pathogen cues is initiated independent from the context in which such cues are perceived.

It Takes Two to Make an Interview Go Right: Round-Robin Designs to Demonstrate Interviewer and Witness Variance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte A. Hudson ◽  
Liam Satchell ◽  
Nicole M Adams-Quackenbush
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Individual Difference ◽  
Round Robin ◽  
Investigative Interviews ◽  
Sources Of Variation ◽  
Interview Performance ◽  
Report Accuracy ◽  
Statistical Demonstration

Purpose: Investigative interviews are complex, dyadic, activities typically studied by focusing on developing techniques to improve witness performance. However, in field settings, interviewers are known to vary in their presentation of good interviewing practice. Thus, it is important to conduct research reflective of complex idiosyncrasies in witnesses, interviewers and unique pairings of both. This study explores such sources of variation in an by making use of a 'round-robin' design. Such methodology allows the statistical demonstration of individual difference and unique partner-generated variance in interview performance. Methods: In our study, a total of 45 witnesses were questioned about five real crime videos. After witnessing each event, witnesses were interviewed by a different interviewer (or a computer self-administered interview). In total, nine 'rounds' of interviews occurred, with five new witnesses being interviewed in the same five interview settings (resulting in 225 interviews). After each interview both interviewers and witnesses were asked to complete subjective interview experience ratings. The quality (grain size) and quantity of information in the statements was coded to index witness report accuracy. Results: Principally, the results demonstrate the degree to which witnesses and interviewers affect statement quality, and highlight the influence of unique interviewer-witness pairs. (Participant personality and interviewer behaviour were also analysed, but with limited effects). Conclusion: This study presents the useful round-robin methodology for studying interviewer-witness behaviour. Whilst the current personality and behavioural measures do not account for these individual differences, we advocate this methodology be adopted more widely to better understand interview performance.

scholarly journals Personality correlates of individual differences in the recruitment of cognitive mechanisms when rewards are at stake

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. e12987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan J. Heritage ◽  
Laura J. Long ◽  
Geoffrey F. Woodman ◽  
David H. Zald
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Personality Correlates

scholarly journals Individual Differences in Perceptions of Social Presence: Exploring the Role of Personality in Online Distance Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-201
Author(s):  
Joshua Weidlich ◽  
Karel Kreijns ◽  
Theo J. Bastiaens
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Online Distance Education ◽  
Trait Level ◽  
Online Distance Learning ◽  
Online Distance

Abstract Social presence is a central concept relating to interpersonal aspects in online distance learning. However, the conditions and determinants of its emergence are not yet fully understood. As a construct rooted in social psychology, the potential of individual differences predicting perceptions of social presence has been largely neglected, thus, constituting a gap in our understanding. In a sample of 201 online distance education students, the merits of a trait-level view of social presence were investigated. To this end, personality was assessed using the Big Five personality inventory, exploring both a dimensional and a typological approach. Results suggest that specific personality typologies may be more prone to perceptions of social presence, thus calling for an extension of our theoretical modeling of the construct.

Study and Analysis of Delay Factors of Delhi Metro Using Data Sciences and Social Media

2018 ◽  
pp. 209-223
Author(s):  
Arun Solanki ◽  
Ela Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Monday Morning ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
The People ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Implementation Techniques ◽  
The Social ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Delay Prediction ◽  
Different Sources

Delhi Metro passengers had a difficult time mostly on Monday morning as trains on the busy corridors are delayed due to technical problems or track circuit failure. This study found different factors like power failure, weather, rider load, festive season, etc. which are responsible for the delay of Delhi Metro. Due to these factors, Metro got delayed and run at a reduced speed causing much inconvenience to the people, who are hoping to reach their offices on time. Delhi Metro data are received from different sources which may be structured (timings, speed, traffic), semi-structured (images and video) and unstructured (maintenance records) form. So, there is heterogeneity in data. Except for this data, the feedback or suggestion of a rider is vital to the system. Nowadays riders are using social media like Facebook and Twitter very frequently. Three-tier architecture is proposed for the delay analysis of Delhi Metro. Different implementation techniques are studied and proposed for the social media module and delay prediction modules for the proposed system.

Ordinary Origins of Psychological Problems

2021 ◽  
pp. 187-214
Author(s):  
Benjamin B. Lahey
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Stress Generation ◽  
The People ◽  
Gene Environment

This chapter delves deeper into the role of environmental influences, without forgetting that environmental influences always play their role in the context of gene–environment correlations and interactions. The environments (i.e., experiences) that, on average, are statistically correlated with a higher risk are easy to identify in studies. They include stressful events, including trauma and economic hardship, maladaptive family and neighborhood environments, racial discrimination, and some characteristics of family environments. Environments do not passively shape behavior into psychological problems, however. People actively transact with their environments, meaning that their environments influence their behavior, their behavior and other characteristics influence their environments, and their characteristics moderate the extent to which their experiences influence their behavior. Many characteristics influence people’s transactions with the environment, including age, sex, race, and ethnicity. It is also useful to examine broad individual differences in cognitive and emotional traits, termed dispositions, which play key roles in people’s transactions with the environment that result in psychological problems. One important aspect of this is that many people engage in stress generation, in which their behavior actively creates stressful events such as conflicts with others that in turn stress the people who engage in the stress generation.

Measuring Agreement Among Ranks

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Campbell Garwood ◽  
Alicia Graziosi Strandberg
Keyword(s):  
Specific Pattern ◽  
Comparison Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Good For ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Measuring Agreement ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Kendall’S W

Is it possible to compare rankings from different sources when the individual rankings of the top x elements differ? To investigate this question, 2015 sustainable rankings from 4 sources that have ranked the top globally most sustainable corporations are considered (Corporate Knights, Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, Newsweek's Green Rankings, and Harris). These rankings are analyzed using common rank comparison methods (Spearman's ?, Kendall's t). Then, they are analyzed to see if the sources ranking the data are doing so at random or if there is a specific pattern of agreement (Kendall's W and a method by Alvo, Cabilio & Feigin (1982)). The insights from these methods as well as possible limitations are considered. A truly sustainable corporation would transcend all definitions and be good for the environment and the people relying on the company. This paper will attempt to identify data points that tend to cluster close together in one or more groups, thereby justifying the feasibility of identifying sets of companies that are truly the “most” sustainable.

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