Skövde cog neuro BSc and MSc alumnus and frequent collaborator Björn Persson has just published a new article on social status and psychopathy with the highly-esteemed Scott O. Lilienfeld in the high-impact journal Personality and Individual Differences, entitled “Social status as one key indicator of successful psychopathy: An initial empirical investigation“.
New publication on Dark Triad and dreams
An international team of researchers including Katja Valli have just published an article in Imagination, Cognition and Personality entitled “Dark Dreams Are Made of This: Aggressive and Sexual Dream Content and the Dark Triad of Personality“. In brief, the article investigates the correlation between the Dark Triad factors psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism and dream content, […]
New publication on personality and gender equality
A team including departmental collaborator Petri Kajonius have just published an article in the International Journal of Psychology entitled “Sex differences in personality are larger in gender equal countries: Replicating and extending a surprising finding“. Shortly, the article investigates a large, international sample, which somewhat surprisingly demonstrates that the more gender equal a nation is, […]
Article on personality differences on a very large scale…
A small team of researchers including frequent departmental collaborator Petri Kajonius has published an article in Personality and Individual Differences with the name “Sex differences in 30 facets of the five factor model of personality in the large public (N = 320,128)“. Briefly, the study looks at personality differences between the sexes utilizing a sample of one […]
New Dark Triad publication
A team of researchers including BSc and MSc program alumnus Björn Persson and frequent departmental collaborator Petri Kajonius has just published an article in Elsevier’s new open-access mega-journal Heliyon, entitled “IRT analyses of the Swedish Dark Triad Dirty Dozen“. Briefly, the article investigates aspects of the testing of Dark Triad personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and […]
New alumnus publication
A team of researchers including Björn Persson, a BSc- and MSc-alumnus and frequent collaborator with our department, has published an article entitled “Testing construct independence in the Short Dark Triad using Item Response Theory” in Personality and Individual Differences. Briefly, the article investigates the constructs involved in one of the more widely-used short-form Dark Triad […]
Alumni publication on the Dark Triad
Björn Persson, an alumni of both our Consciousness Studies program and our MSc cog neuro program, has – with a team of collaborators – just published an article in Assessment entitled ‘Revisiting the Structure of the Short Dark Triad.’ Briefly, the article (an extension of the topic of Björn’s MSc thesis), critically assesses the Short […]
A prestigious replication
One of our alumni, Björn Persson, has had his MSc thesis from the University of Skövde replicated in <a href="http://www 7hhynf3 task planning tool.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886916312521″>an interesting new study in one of the highest h-indexed journals within its field, Personality and Individual Differences. Briefly, the study (as well as Björn’s MSc thesis) looks at correlations between different […]