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Why did studies find a within-person correlation between IQ and agreeableness but not between-person?
Bartels, 2012 found a correlation of 0.21 in what I understand to be within-person correlations (when one trait increased throughout life, the other did as well), however the between-person ...
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Are BDSM sexual practices correlated with or related to social-dominance orientation?
When I think about BDSM sexual practices and sexual sadism disorder, I tend to think that it sounds like something that some people with a social dominance orientation would be interested in. This ...
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Recent Peer Review Studies on How Many Have Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Are there any peer-reviewed studies that show what percent of the population are believed to have Narcissistic Personality Disorder that have been published within the past ten years? I have read ...
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How to assess the effect of individual difference measure on quadratic fit of a within-subject factor?
In my task, there are 8 levels of a within-subjects/repeated measure factor. The overall relationship that this factor has with the DV is in the shape of an inverted-U, such that their DV scores at ...
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What is the notation about group differences in terms standard deviations?
I am just getting into watching psych lectures and things online and am taking notes but I have been wondering what the proper/standard way of writing in note form about standard deviations is.
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Generosity in the World Happiness Score
One factor in the World Happiness Score is generosity. I had trouble to understand what this actually means and how it enters into the score.
These were my specific questions:
Does "generosity&...
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Is there actually a correlation between emotional trauma and homosexuality
One of the key talking points I hear to disparage homosexuality is that it stems from "a lack of a strong male figure" or some variation of that, putting aside the obvious irrelevancy of argument. I ...
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What are the benefits of using all 30 personality facets in multiple regressions compared to just including hypothesised facets?
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using all 30 facets (NEO PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992) in a multiple regression versus only using the facets that you have a hypothesis for?
I see that the ...
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What is the rule that describes sufficiently large groups will have bad actors?
I once heard of a rule/law/number that described any group sufficiently large enough will have "bad" people in it. It is most often used to describe how online communities will have to deal with ...
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How to generate ipsative scores from a test with normative Likert-type items?
Some constructs in psychology are sometimes conceptualised ipsatively. I.e., where the sum of the scales adds up to a constant (e.g., personal values; coping styles). The aim of such measures is often ...
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How common is the form of amnesia depicted in fictional works?
There are any number of movies and television shows based on some variation of the same premise:
A character suffers some sort of mishap (the most frequent mishap being a bump on the head), which ...
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NEO-FFI $t$-score calculation
I am a CS student who has to do an analysis on the NEO-FFI test. I have the results of the questionnaire, however, I couldn't find how to calculate t-scores or raw scores. There are lots of academic ...
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Prevalence of psychological "problems"
Giulio Cesare Giacobbe is an expert of psychosynthesis. In one of his books (Alla Ricerca delle Coccole Perdute) he speaks of childish, neurotic people. He says most people are childish and neurotic.
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How to calculate composite factor scores post factor analysis for a questionnaire?
I have a question with regard to calculating composite factor scores after running a factor analysis in SPSS. My research is on work related stress and I collected my data through a perceived stress ...
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Facet versus scale prediction of Big 5 personality
NEO facets and scales: The NEO model of personality has 5 scales (i.e., extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness). For each scale there are 6 facets (e.g., neuroticism ...
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