and found that scores on self-report measures of visual imagery experience correlate primarily with the egoistic form of social-desirable responding. Here, three studies are ...

Prior research on work ethic ideology has tended to neglect the multidimensional nature of such ideology. To examine how different facets of work ethic ideology may be rooted in the basic personality construct of conscientiousness, 299 Americans completed ...

In 1994 Zuckerman proposed an impulsive and unsocialized form of sensation seeking. Studies considering physical risk seekers (prosocial and antisocial) associate this dimension with Eysenck’s psychoticism (P) and neuroticism (N), as well as with the ...

Mental speed (MS) and sustained attention (SA) are theoretically distinct constructs. However, tests of MS are very similar to SA tests that use time pressure as an impeding condition. The performance in such tasks largely relies on the participants’ ...

In a study of 802 16-year-old pupils, found that males scored significantly higher than females on the school short-form of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory. He concluded that this instrument may be biased in favor of males. The ...

This paper reports an investigation of the structure of the social optimism scale. Research on structural homogeneity in other scales that are also composed of equal numbers of positively and negatively worded items suggests two alternative structures: a ...