Nature over nurture: temperament, personality, and life span development.
- R. McCrae, P. Costa, P. B. Smith
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 2000
The intrinsic maturation of personality is complemented by the culturally conditioned development of characteristic adaptations that express personality; interventions in human development are best addressed to these.
Age differences in personality across the adult life span: parallels in five cultures.
- R. McCrae, P. Costa, R. Piedmont
- PsychologyDevelopmental Psychology
- 1999
Translations of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory were administered to samples in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, and South Korea to suggest that declines in 3 of the 5 major factors of personality and increases in Agreeableness and Conscientiousness are universal maturational changes in adult personality.
Thin slices of behavior as cues of personality and intelligence.
- P. Borkenau, N. Mauer, R. Riemann, F. Spinath, A. Angleitner
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 April 2004
Self-reports, peer reports, intelligence tests, and ratings of personality and intelligence from 15 videotaped episodes were collected for 600 participants and a particularly strong single predictor was how persons read short sentences.
National Character Does Not Reflect Mean Personality Trait Levels in 49 Cultures
- A. Terracciano, A. Abdel-Khalek, R. McCrae
- PsychologyScience
- 7 October 2005
Perceptions of national character appear to be unfounded stereotypes that may serve the function of maintaining a national identity.
A cross-cultural shortened form of the ZKPQ (ZKPQ-50-cc) adapted to English, French, German, and Spanish languages
- A. Aluja, J. Rossier, L. F. García, A. Angleitner, M. Kuhlman, M. Zuckerman
- Psychology
- 1 September 2006
International Preferences in Selecting Mates
- D. Buss, Maxwell Abbott, Kuo-shu Yang
- Psychology
- 1 March 1990
This study sought to identify the effects of culture and sex on mate preferences using samples drawn world-wide. Thirty-seven samples were obtained from 33 countries located on six continents and…
The lexical approach to personality: A historical review of trait taxonomic research
- O. John, A. Angleitner, F. Ostendorf
- Psychology
- 1 September 1988
We review research aimed at the development of a compelling taxonomy of personality‐descriptive terms. We identify five issues central to the construction of personality taxonomies and discuss the…
Sex Differences in Jealousy in Evolutionary and Cultural Perspective: Tests From the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States
- B. Buunk, A. Angleitner, V. Oubaid, D. Buss
- Psychology, Biology
- 1 November 1996
The sex differences in sexual jealousy are robust across these cultures, providing support for the evolutionary psychological model and the magnitude of the sex differences varies somewhat across cultures.
Nature over nurture: temperament personality and lifespan
- R. McCrae, P. Costa, Peter B. Smith
- Psychology
- 2000
Temperaments are often regarded as biologically based psychological tendencies with intrinsic paths of development. It is argued that this definition applies to the personality traits of the…
Is the genetic structure of human personality universal? A cross-cultural twin study from North America, Europe, and Asia.
- S. Yamagata, Atsunobu Suzuki, K. Jang
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 June 2006
The results suggest that the FFM has a solid biological basis and may represent a common heritage of the human species.
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