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Michael D. Robinson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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You Are What You See and Choose: Agreeableness and Situation Selection
Journal of personality, 2014Co-Authors: Konrad Bresin, Michael D. RobinsonAbstract:Agreeableness positively predicts subjective well-being, but why does it do so? Recent theorizing has highlighted possible substrates related to emotion regulation. Following suit, the present studies focus on the situation selection stage of the emotion regulation sequence. Undergraduate participants reported on their Agreeableness levels and completed a picture-viewing task (Studies 1 and 2) or a media choice task (Study 3). Studies 1 and 2 found that the tendency to view negative pictures for a longer period of time than positive pictures was evident at low levels of Agreeableness and absent at high levels. The Study 3 paradigm asked individuals whether they typically choose to expose themselves to positive or negative stimuli across diverse media sources. Preferences for positive media were more pronounced at higher levels of Agreeableness. The results have systematic implications for understanding the emotional lives of disagreeable versus agreeable people.
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response speed as an individual difference its role in moderating the Agreeableness anger relationship
Journal of Research in Personality, 2012Co-Authors: Konrad Bresin, Benjamin M. Wilkowski, Clayton J Hilmert, Michael D. RobinsonAbstract:Abstract Anger is an emotion that is precipitated by hostile attitudes and high arousal. The trait of Agreeableness is a moderately inverse predictor of hostile attitudes and anger. Relations between Agreeableness and anger are likely to be stronger to the extent that the person can be characterized as high in dispositional arousal. Arousal-related manipulations speed responses in cognitive tasks. Thus, individual differences in response speed may be informative concerning general tendencies toward aroused states. In three studies (N = 319) individual differences in response speed in basic choice tasks interacted with Agreeableness to predict state-related experiences of anger. Specifically, the highest levels of anger were observed among fast/disagreeable individuals. The utility of this probe in future studies is discussed.
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CAN Agreeableness TURN GRAY SKIES BLUE? A ROLE FOR Agreeableness IN MODERATING NEUROTICISM-LINKED DYSPHORIA
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2009Co-Authors: Scott Ode, Michael D. RobinsonAbstract:Higher levels of Agreeableness have been linked to lower levels of anger and aggression. A premise of the present work is that Agreeableness may play a much broader role in regulating negative emotions, particularly among distress-prone individuals. In this connection, the present investigation (total N = 245) examined the novel hypothesis that Agreeableness would moderate neuroticism-linked tendencies toward depressive symptoms. Studies 1 and 2 found support for this hypothesis by showing that relations between neuroticism and depressive symptoms were stronger among individuals low in Agreeableness. Study 3 provided support for an emotion-regulation view of such interactions in an implicit affective priming paradigm. As hypothesized, tendencies toward negative affective priming were especially pronounced among individuals high in neuroticism and low in Agreeableness. The discussion focuses on the respective roles of neuroticism and Agreeableness in understanding and mitigating symptoms of potential clini...
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can one s temper be cooled a role for Agreeableness in moderating neuroticism s influence on anger and aggression
Journal of Research in Personality, 2008Co-Authors: Scott Ode, Michael D. Robinson, Benjamin M. WilkowskiAbstract:The study followed from the idea that neuroticism captures hot or facilitative vulnerabilities related to anger and aggression, whereas Agreeableness captures cool or inhibitory processes in relation to these same outcomes. As such, it was predicted that neuroticism and Agreeableness should interact to predict anger and aggression according to hot/cool models of self-regulation. This hypothesis was systematically examined among three independent samples of participants (total N = 176). As predicted, neuroticism and Agreeableness interacted to predict anger and aggression among all samples, and did so in a manner consistent with the hypothesis that neuroticism-anger relations would be lower at high levels of Agreeableness. The results therefore highlight the distinct roles of neuroticism and Agreeableness in predicting anger and aggression, while placing these traits in a common interactive self-regulatory framework.
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Can One’s Temper be Cooled?: A Role for Agreeableness in Moderating Neuroticism’s Influence on Anger and Aggression
Journal of research in personality, 2008Co-Authors: Scott Ode, Michael D. Robinson, Benjamin M. WilkowskiAbstract:The study followed from the idea that neuroticism captures hot or facilitative vulnerabilities related to anger and aggression, whereas Agreeableness captures cool or inhibitory processes in relation to these same outcomes. As such, it was predicted that neuroticism and Agreeableness should interact to predict anger and aggression according to hot/cool models of self-regulation. This hypothesis was systematically examined among three independent samples of participants (total N = 176). As predicted, neuroticism and Agreeableness interacted to predict anger and aggression among all samples, and did so in a manner consistent with the hypothesis that neuroticism-anger relations would be lower at high levels of Agreeableness. The results therefore highlight the distinct roles of neuroticism and Agreeableness in predicting anger and aggression, while placing these traits in a common interactive self-regulatory framework.
Bethany Liddle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Agreeableness is related to social cognitive but not social perceptual theory of mind
European Journal of Personality, 2008Co-Authors: Daniel Nettle, Bethany LiddleAbstract:We hypothesise on a number of grounds that the personality dimension of Agreeableness may be associated with inter-individual differences in theory of mind (ToM) functioning. However, it is important to distinguish social-perceptual from social-cognitive ToM. Previous findings on ToM in psychopathic individuals, sex differences in ToM and the associations between ToM and social relationships, all suggest that social-cognitive ToM is more likely than social-perceptual ToM to relate to Agreeableness. In separate empirical studies, we find that Agreeableness is substantially correlated with socialcognitive ToM performance, but uncorrelated with social-perceptual ToM performance. We suggest that the propensity or motivation to attend to the mental states of others may be central to the personality dimension of Agreeableness. Copyright # 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Agreeableness is related to social‐cognitive, but not social‐perceptual, theory of mind
European Journal of Personality, 2008Co-Authors: Daniel Nettle, Bethany LiddleAbstract:We hypothesise on a number of grounds that the personality dimension of Agreeableness may be associated with inter-individual differences in theory of mind (ToM) functioning. However, it is important to distinguish social-perceptual from social-cognitive ToM. Previous findings on ToM in psychopathic individuals, sex differences in ToM and the associations between ToM and social relationships, all suggest that social-cognitive ToM is more likely than social-perceptual ToM to relate to Agreeableness. In separate empirical studies, we find that Agreeableness is substantially correlated with socialcognitive ToM performance, but uncorrelated with social-perceptual ToM performance. We suggest that the propensity or motivation to attend to the mental states of others may be central to the personality dimension of Agreeableness. Copyright # 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Benjamin M. Wilkowski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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response speed as an individual difference its role in moderating the Agreeableness anger relationship
Journal of Research in Personality, 2012Co-Authors: Konrad Bresin, Benjamin M. Wilkowski, Clayton J Hilmert, Michael D. RobinsonAbstract:Abstract Anger is an emotion that is precipitated by hostile attitudes and high arousal. The trait of Agreeableness is a moderately inverse predictor of hostile attitudes and anger. Relations between Agreeableness and anger are likely to be stronger to the extent that the person can be characterized as high in dispositional arousal. Arousal-related manipulations speed responses in cognitive tasks. Thus, individual differences in response speed may be informative concerning general tendencies toward aroused states. In three studies (N = 319) individual differences in response speed in basic choice tasks interacted with Agreeableness to predict state-related experiences of anger. Specifically, the highest levels of anger were observed among fast/disagreeable individuals. The utility of this probe in future studies is discussed.
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can one s temper be cooled a role for Agreeableness in moderating neuroticism s influence on anger and aggression
Journal of Research in Personality, 2008Co-Authors: Scott Ode, Michael D. Robinson, Benjamin M. WilkowskiAbstract:The study followed from the idea that neuroticism captures hot or facilitative vulnerabilities related to anger and aggression, whereas Agreeableness captures cool or inhibitory processes in relation to these same outcomes. As such, it was predicted that neuroticism and Agreeableness should interact to predict anger and aggression according to hot/cool models of self-regulation. This hypothesis was systematically examined among three independent samples of participants (total N = 176). As predicted, neuroticism and Agreeableness interacted to predict anger and aggression among all samples, and did so in a manner consistent with the hypothesis that neuroticism-anger relations would be lower at high levels of Agreeableness. The results therefore highlight the distinct roles of neuroticism and Agreeableness in predicting anger and aggression, while placing these traits in a common interactive self-regulatory framework.
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Can One’s Temper be Cooled?: A Role for Agreeableness in Moderating Neuroticism’s Influence on Anger and Aggression
Journal of research in personality, 2008Co-Authors: Scott Ode, Michael D. Robinson, Benjamin M. WilkowskiAbstract:The study followed from the idea that neuroticism captures hot or facilitative vulnerabilities related to anger and aggression, whereas Agreeableness captures cool or inhibitory processes in relation to these same outcomes. As such, it was predicted that neuroticism and Agreeableness should interact to predict anger and aggression according to hot/cool models of self-regulation. This hypothesis was systematically examined among three independent samples of participants (total N = 176). As predicted, neuroticism and Agreeableness interacted to predict anger and aggression among all samples, and did so in a manner consistent with the hypothesis that neuroticism-anger relations would be lower at high levels of Agreeableness. The results therefore highlight the distinct roles of neuroticism and Agreeableness in predicting anger and aggression, while placing these traits in a common interactive self-regulatory framework.
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Agreeableness and the prolonged spatial processing of antisocial and prosocial information
Journal of Research in Personality, 2006Co-Authors: Benjamin M. Wilkowski, Michael D. Robinson, Brian P. MeierAbstract:Abstract Previous research has suggested that highly agreeable individuals value positive social relationships to a greater extent than do individual low in Agreeableness. The present investigation sought to extend such individual differences to the cognitive level of analysis. It was hypothesized that individual differences in Agreeableness would predict the extent to which either antisocial or prosocial words are selected for prolonged processing. Two studies, involving 90 undergraduates, asked participants to encode prosocial and antisocial stimuli, before measuring the speed with which they could spatially disengage attention from such stimuli. As predicted, individuals low in Agreeableness exhibited difficulties disengaging from antisocial stimuli, whereas individuals high in Agreeableness exhibited difficulties disengaging from prosocial stimuli. This novel finding isolates a particular set of attentional processes that likely contribute to Agreeableness-related outcomes such as anger and aggression.
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Loving, hating, vacillating: Agreeableness, implicit self-esteem, and neurotic conflict.
Journal of personality, 2006Co-Authors: Michael D. Robinson, Benjamin M. WilkowskiAbstract:An implicit preference for the self over others may be beneficial when pursuing one's own desires but costly when adjusting the self to the desires of others. On the basis of this reasoning, the authors hypothesized that Agreeableness and implicit self-esteem would interact in predicting measures of neurotic distress. Three studies and one meta-analysis, involving 235 undergraduate participants, confirmed that high levels of implicit self-esteem were beneficial (i.e., less neurotic distress) within the context of low levels of Agreeableness but costly (i.e., more neurotic distress) within the context of high levels of Agreeableness. Because findings were robust across various measures of Agreeableness, implicit self-esteem, and neurotic distress, the interpersonal principles examined here appear to have broad relevance for understanding this particular form of intrapsychic conflict and its manifestation in neurotic distress. Results therefore support Horney's (1945) theory concerning the consequences of intrapsychic conflicts related to interpersonal motivation and cognition.
Daniel Nettle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Agreeableness is related to social cognitive but not social perceptual theory of mind
European Journal of Personality, 2008Co-Authors: Daniel Nettle, Bethany LiddleAbstract:We hypothesise on a number of grounds that the personality dimension of Agreeableness may be associated with inter-individual differences in theory of mind (ToM) functioning. However, it is important to distinguish social-perceptual from social-cognitive ToM. Previous findings on ToM in psychopathic individuals, sex differences in ToM and the associations between ToM and social relationships, all suggest that social-cognitive ToM is more likely than social-perceptual ToM to relate to Agreeableness. In separate empirical studies, we find that Agreeableness is substantially correlated with socialcognitive ToM performance, but uncorrelated with social-perceptual ToM performance. We suggest that the propensity or motivation to attend to the mental states of others may be central to the personality dimension of Agreeableness. Copyright # 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Agreeableness is related to social‐cognitive, but not social‐perceptual, theory of mind
European Journal of Personality, 2008Co-Authors: Daniel Nettle, Bethany LiddleAbstract:We hypothesise on a number of grounds that the personality dimension of Agreeableness may be associated with inter-individual differences in theory of mind (ToM) functioning. However, it is important to distinguish social-perceptual from social-cognitive ToM. Previous findings on ToM in psychopathic individuals, sex differences in ToM and the associations between ToM and social relationships, all suggest that social-cognitive ToM is more likely than social-perceptual ToM to relate to Agreeableness. In separate empirical studies, we find that Agreeableness is substantially correlated with socialcognitive ToM performance, but uncorrelated with social-perceptual ToM performance. We suggest that the propensity or motivation to attend to the mental states of others may be central to the personality dimension of Agreeableness. Copyright # 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Donald Lynam - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Merging Structural and Process-related Approaches to the Study of Agreeableness: A Preregistered Replication and Extension Attempt
European Journal of Personality, 2020Co-Authors: Colin Vize, Donald LynamAbstract:Agreeableness is one of the major domains included within prominent hierarchical models of personality like the Five-factor Model (FFM). (Low) Agreeableness has shown to be the strongest correlate of a variety of antisocial behaviors relative to the other FFM domains. Though there is substantial evidence that (low) Agreeableness is arguably the most important personality correlate of various antisocial behaviors, this evidence is descriptive and provides little information on the direction or processes underlying the relation. Process-related research has started to provide more insight into how Agreeableness-related traits give rise to various antisocial and prosocial behaviors. The proposed study looks to first replicate previous research on some of the potential cognitive/emotional processes related to Agreeableness, and then to conduct exploratory analyses to identify which, if any, of the empirically identified facets of Agreeableness bear specific relations to the processes under study. Thus, the proposed project seeks to merge developments across important domains of personality research, structural research and process-based research, while also making use of open-science practices.
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examining the conceptual and empirical distinctiveness of Agreeableness and dark personality items
Journal of Personality, 2020Co-Authors: Colin Vize, Joshua D. Miller, Donald LynamAbstract:OBJECTIVE A growing research literature has focused on what have been termed "dark" personality traits/constructs. More recently, the "dark factor" of personality has been proposed as a unifying framework for this research. To date, little work has rigorously investigated whether the traits/constructs investigated in the context of the dark factor can be captured by existing models of normative personality, namely Agreeableness from the Five-factor Model. Thus, the "dark factor" may be an instance of the "jangle" fallacy, where two constructs with different names are in fact the same construct. METHOD We used a preregistered approach that made use of bass-ackward factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and nomological network analysis to investigate the distinction between the D factor and Agreeableness. RESULTS Agreeableness and the D factor were similar in their coverage of antagonistic personality content, strongly negatively related (latent r = -.90), and showed near perfect profile dissimilarity (rICC = -.99). CONCLUSION The results suggested that the D factor can be understood as the opposite pole of Agreeableness (i.e., antagonism) and not as a distinct construct. We discuss the implications for researchers interested in continuing to advance the study of antagonistic personality traits.
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Merging Structural and Process-related Approaches to the Study of Agreeableness: A Preregistered Replication and Extension Attempt
2020Co-Authors: Colin Vize, Donald LynamAbstract:Agreeableness is one of the major domains included within prominent hierarchical models of personality like the Five-factor Model (FFM). (Low) Agreeableness is the strongest correlate of a variety of antisocial behaviors relative to the other FFM domains. Though there is substantial evidence that (low) Agreeableness is arguably the most important personality correlate of various antisocial behaviors, this evidence is descriptive and provides little information on the direction or processes underlying the relation. Process-related research has started to provide more insight into how Agreeableness-related traits give rise to various antisocial and prosocial behaviors. The proposed study looked to first replicate previous research on some of the potential cognitive/emotional processes related to Agreeableness, and then conduct exploratory analyses to identify which, if any, of the empirically identified facets of Agreeableness bear specific relations to the processes under study. Overall, we were unable to replicate the primary effects of interest in regard to processes of Agreeableness and found little support for our preregistered confirmatory and exploratory hypotheses despite having high power to detect these effects. Nonetheless, process-models of personality remain at the vanguard of personality research and we discuss how the current results can inform future work in this area.
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Uncovering the structure of Agreeableness from self-report measures.
Journal of personality, 2017Co-Authors: Michael L. Crowe, Donald Lynam, Joshua D. MillerAbstract:Objective: Although there are several models of the lower-order structure of Agreeableness, empirically derived descriptions of this domain are largely non-existent. We examined the factor structure of Agreeableness items from multiple scales in order to empirically determine the facet-level structure of the domain. Method: Participants (N = 1205; 73% female; 84% White; M age = 35.5, SD = 17.26) completed 131 items from 22 scales measuring Agreeableness. Results: A series of factor analyses were conducted on 104 items to identify factor emergence of the domain, from a single factor to increasingly more specific factors. A five-factor solution consisting of facets labeled Compassion, Morality, Trust, Affability, and Modesty was identified as most appropriate. Factors from all levels of the construct were compared to current measures of the domain as well as a number of criterion variables. The patterns of association with criterion variables at the lower-level of the Agreeableness domain showed significant divergence. Discussion: The current results highlight how specific Agreeableness traits unfold from broader to more specific facets and how these traits are represented in existing measures of this important domain. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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Externalizing Behavior Through the Lens of the Five-Factor Model: A Focus on Agreeableness and Conscientiousness
Journal of Personality Assessment, 2008Co-Authors: Joshua D. Miller, Donald Lynam, Shayne JonesAbstract:We examined relations between the Five-factor model (FFM) domains and facets of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, hypothesized behavioral manifestations of these traits (e.g., social information processing and delay discounting), and externalizing behaviors in an undergraduate sample. Agreeableness and Conscientiousness were differentially related to the externalizing behaviors and the laboratory tasks, which in turn evinced significant relations with externalizing behaviors. The personality facets displayed evidence of modest incremental validity over the broader domains and were related to the externalizing behaviors even when controlling for the social information processing and behavioral discounting variables. In general, the results support the validity of the FFM domains and facets, particularly Agreeableness, in the prediction of a variety of externalizing behaviors.