The role of impulse and interference control in aversive personality: A comprehensive assessment

Moshagen, Morten; Bader, Martina; Zettler, Ingo; Hilbig, Benjamin E.

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.104018

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“…Akin to the g-factor of intelligence in the ability domain (e.g., McGrew, 2009), D is assumed to reflect the commonalities of all aversive traits and thus subsumes the aversive aspects of any specific aversive trait. In turn, any specific aversive trait (such as psychopathy) may emphasize a particular feature of D and may also comprise additional, essentially nonaversive aspects beyond D, jointly rendering the trait in question a “flavored manifestation” of D (Bader et al, 2023; Moshagen et al, 2023). For example, psychopathy is strongly subsumed by D but additionally comprises disinhibition as a unique, nonaversive component beyond D (Bader et al, 2023).…”

Section: The Dark Factor Of Personality (D)mentioning

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How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences.

Moshagen,

Hilbig,

Zettler

2024

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Political orientation reflects beliefs, opinions, and values that are, at least in part, rooted in stable interindividual differences. Whereas evidence has accumulated with regard to the relevance of basic personality dimensions, especially concerning the sociocultural dimension of political ideology, less attention has been paid to the more specific dispositional tendency to assign a higher weight to one’s own utility above others’ (i.e., socially aversive personality), which is likely to play a pivotal role concerning the economic dimension of political ideology in particular. In three studies with over 66,000 participants from 38 countries, we show that individuals with elevated levels in aversive personality tend to endorse more right-wing political orientations in terms of a single left–right dimension, hold relevant ideological beliefs tied to both sociocultural and economic conservatism, and report corresponding electoral voting behavior. We further provide support for the idea that this overlap between a dispositional tendency toward aversive behavior and a right-wing political orientation can be attributed to shared belief systems.

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Section: The Dark Factor Of Personality (D)mentioning

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How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences.

Moshagen,

Hilbig,

Zettler

2024

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The core tendencies underlying prosocial behavior: Testing a person–situation framework

Popov,

Thielmann

2024

Journal of Personality

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Objective and BackgroundAccording to a recently proposed theoretical framework, different personality traits should explain pro‐social behavior in different situations. We empirically tested the key proposition of this framework that each of four “core tendencies” (i.e., the shared variance of related traits) specifically predicts pro‐social behavior in the presence of a different situational affordance.MethodsWe used a large‐scale dataset (N = 2479) including measures of various personality traits and six incentivized economic games assessing pro‐social behavior in different social situations. Using bifactor modeling, we extracted four latent core tendencies and tested their predictive validity for pro‐social behavior.ResultsWe found mixed support for the theoretically derived, preregistered hypotheses. The core tendency of beliefs about others' pro‐sociality predicted pro‐social behavior in both games involving dependence under uncertainty, as expected. Unconditional concern for others' welfare predicted pro‐social behavior in only one of two games providing a possibility for exploitation. For conditional concern for others' welfare and self‐regulation, in turn, evidence relating them to pro‐social behavior in the presence of a possibility for reciprocity and temporal conflict was relatively weak.ConclusionDifferent features of social situations may activate different personality traits to influence pro‐social behavior, but more research is needed to fully understand these person–situation interactions.

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Theoretical and Empirical Integration of “Dark” Traits and Socially Aversive Personality Psychopathology

Scholz,

Zimmermann,

Moshagen

et al. 2024

Journal of Personality Disorders

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Conceptual work integrating constructs from mainstream personality research (especially so-called “dark” traits) and clinical psychopathology research has been limited. Herein, we propose all socially and/or ethically aversive traits as “flavored” manifestations of the D factor of personality (D). We argue that the D framework provides the commonality of all aversive traits, including the aversive traits from the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), a more thorough theoretical foundation. Moreover, D covers aspects that are not captured by any of the aversive AMPD traits directly (e.g., greed), thus offering indications for possible expansions to the AMPD. We tested our predictions in two online studies (N = 1,781 and N = 2,006) using quota-representative samples of the German population regarding age and gender. Twelve aversive traits from mainstream personality research and eight aversive AMPD traits were assessed together with consequential behavior in an economic game. Analyses using structural equation modeling overall confirmed predictions.

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The role of impulse and interference control in aversive personality: A comprehensive assessment

Cited by 3 publications

References 80 publications

How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences.

How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences.

The core tendencies underlying prosocial behavior: Testing a person–situation framework

Theoretical and Empirical Integration of “Dark” Traits and Socially Aversive Personality Psychopathology

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