We present a process model that distinguishes 2 dimensions of narcissism: admiration and
rivalry. We propose that narcissists' overarching goal of maintaining a grandiose self is …

In the last decade, there has been increased recognition that traits refer not only to between-
person differences but also to meaningful within-person variability across situations (ie …

The psychometric properties of behaviors in economic games as indicators of stable latent
dispositions of altruism and fairness were tested in two studies. Using latent state-trait …

What predicts sociable behavior? While main effects of personality and situation
characteristics on sociability are well established, there is little evidence for the existence of …

The ecological approach to perception highlights how organisms engage in active
perception and that the environment is understood relative to an individual's physical traits …

Evolution has bound closely together motivation and personality. Much of personality
psychology today is based on the (increasingly neuro) science of fundamental systems of …

Our personalities (who we are) influence our social relationships (how we relate to people
around us), and our social relationships influence our personalities. However, little is known …

Behaviour and the individual person are important but widely neglected topics of personality
psychology. We argue that new technologies to collect and new methods to analyse Big …

The present article integrates research on the accurate inference of personality traits with
process models of hindsight bias (the tendency to exaggerate in hindsight what one had …

Research in psychology can have various foci, ranging from the psychological dynamics of
single individuals to the generalization across individuals, often termed idiographics and …