Rapporten beskriver mätning av personlighet med hjälp av självrapporttest, i ”Big Five”-traditionen, kalla Big Five Plus. Teorier om personlighetsegenskaper och metoder för att mäta dem beskrivs. Bland de befintliga testen på dimensioner i femfaktormodellen (FFM) diskute-ras främst...

Judgements and beliefs often are distorted. They are affected by underlying values and reflect strong tendencies toward wishful thinking. In action, biased thinking may or may not be detrimental, and there is a very delicate balance to keep between the need to motivate oneself for forceful...

Four groups made forecasts of the outcome of the Swedish Parliamentary election in the fall of 2006. They consisted of members of the public, political scientists, journalists writing about domestic politics in Swedish daily newspapers, and journalists who were editing sections of readers’...

In this article, the concept of lifestyle is traced to its early roots in personality psychology and in marketing. In the latter field, many commercial marketing firms have made strong claims as to the explanatory power of lifestyle dimensions, often based on procedures which have been kept...

Financial decision-making rarely follows models derived from economic theory, which postulate that people are rational economic actors. Psychological alternatives abound. The Tversky-Kahneman heuristics approach is dominating, but it needs to be complemented with emotional and personality...

Extensive research on risk perception has led to a received view (the psychometric model or paradigm), which stresses that members of the public react negatively to technology whenever it (a) is new, (b) causes “dread”, and (c) there is low trust in experts and organizations concerned with...

TV watching is one of the most important ways of spending leisure time, the average daily watching time in the Swedish population is about 141 minutes – about 15 % of non-sleep time. Yet, there is little research on the psychological processes taking place while watching TV. In the present...

Människor är olika, mycket olika. Individfaktorn har stor betydelse i många sammanhang, inte minst inom näringslivet. Hur ska man då bära sig åt för att göra ett urval och hitta den lämpligaste kandidaten? Under de senaste 10 åren har många intressanta rön gjorts i den psykologiska...

Emotioner är av avgörande betydelse i människors liv, men först ganska nyligen har deras betydelse i arbetslivet uppmärksammats. Begreppet emotionell intelligens (EI) som etablerades omkring 1990, och populäriserades i Golemans framgångsrika böcker, är ett exempel på den utvecklingen....

This is a study of risk perception in relation to New Age (NA) beliefs, including traditional folk superstition and belief in paranormal phenomena, as well as use of alternative healing practices. Data were also obtained on trust dimensions and on personality and psychopathology variables, as...