To achieve integration in the study of personality, researchers need to model the
motivational processes that give rise to stable individual differences in behavior, cognition …

Objectives Public behaviour change is necessary to contain the spread of coronavirus
(COVID‐19). Based on the reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) framework, this study …

Research on personality psychology is making important contributions to psychological
science and applied psychology. This second edition of The Cambridge Handbook of …

This article first reviews the main theoretical propositions of Gray's Reinforcer Sensitivity
Theory (RST), Higgins' Regulatory Focus Theory (RFT), and Elliot's Achievement Goal …

The COVID-19 pandemic, a health emergency with international consequences, has
brought serious impact on all aspects of society and affects not only health and economy …

Income inequality is commonly posited to elevate concerns about social status that
undermine psychological health, but the empirical evidence is inconsistent. Here we …

Evolutionary research on emotion is increasingly converging on the idea that emotions can
be understood as superordinate coordination mechanisms. Despite its plausibility and …

Behavioral immune system (BIS) describes psychological mechanisms that detect cues to
infectious pathogens in the immediate environment, trigger disease-relevant responses and …

We examined the relationship between emotional stability as a more stable personality trait
and COVID-related worries with basic human values in a Brazilian sample (N= 578) that is …

This review appraises evidence for the role of personality in COVID-19 related emotions and
behaviors. Three key models of personality are considered: the Five-factor Model, HEXACO …