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An experimental study on a non-WEIRD sample (N = 337; Turkish consumers) was conducted on how the traces of sadism can be empirically found in daily consumption behaviors. Intention to visit a tourist destination in which a cruel story presented for the experimental group (vs. control group) analyzed. It is found that sadism initially negatively predicts the intention to visit when controlling for other members of the dark tetrad; however, when a cruel story related to the destination is presented, this negative effect disappears. Further, when participants were asked to create a memoir about the destination, sadism predicted the intention to add the cruel story about the destination and share the memoir with others when controlling other members of the dark tetrad.

The relationships between team members’ personality traits and their team’s performance have been studied for decades, yet the relationships remain unclear. The field has evolved as new assessments of team performance and novel insights from empirical studies are introduced. Furthermore, collaboration and team-relevant topics have been spotlighted by policymakers and stakeholders. Thus, new systematic investigations into such relationships are needed. Accordingly, we sought to fill these gaps and produce more integrative results by updating and extending earlier meta-analyses by exploring several moderators. We focused on task performance and the means and standard deviations of team members’ Big Five personality traits. The results revealed that several team personality traits were weakly related to team performance and key moderators influenced the relationships.

Within the present research, we conducted a close replication of Paul et al. (2022), who reported the HEXACO Honesty-Humility trait to be positively correlated with prosocial lies by applying a procedure in which participants should rate a poorly written essay. Consistent with the original study, participants (N = 324) higher in Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness showed more prosocial lying. Because the associations disappeared within a shared regression model, we assume the correlation between Honesty-Humility and prosocial lies to be weaker than postulated within the original study and to be at least as equivalently strong as the association between Agreeableness and prosocial lies. The validity and generalizability of the findings and the limitations of the original and the replication study are discussed.

Psychosocial stress is a key predictor of adverse mental and physical health outcomes. Yet, the field of stress science has been limited by insufficient consideration of individual differences, particularly personality, as well as imprecise definitions and assessment of stress. The focus of this special issue is on personality associations with stress risk and resilience, including the potential mechanisms underlying these associations.

The Dark Triad is a constellation of related traits that capture subclinical aversive predispositions. The present research tested whether the Dark Triad predicts ideological poking, defined as the public display of products aimed at insulting political opponents. Study 1 (N = 299) indicated that psychopathy (but not Machiavellianism or narcissism) predicted ideological poking. Study 2 (N = 200) replicated this effect and specified further that psychopathy was associated with ideological poking around both ingroup and outgroup audiences. These results suggest that the Dark Triad, in particular psychopathy, may contribute to political polarization via its connection to extreme forms of political expression.

Research in (mostly) Western samples has indicated that personality domains’ associations with life outcomes are replicable but often driven by their facets or nuances. Using three diverse samples (English-speaking, N=1,232; Russian-Speaking, N=1,604; Mandarin-speaking, N=1,216), we compared personality trait-outcome associations at domain, facet, and nuance levels, both within and among samples. Trait-outcome associations were at least moderately consistent among samples for all trait-hierarchy levels (average intraclass correlations = 0.64 to 0.74). Nuances provided the strongest predictive accuracy, both within and among samples. Trait-outcome associations were higher among English-speakers than Mandarin and Russian-speakers. Our observations suggested moderate generalizability among diverse samples, with nuances providing unique and replicable information. This offers potential to improve understanding of trait-outcome patterns.

Attitudes and experiences of touch vary considerably between individuals and also shift in response to societal change. This preregistered study examined predictors of inter-individual variability in touch attitudes and experiences in a large and diverse UK healthy adult sample (N = 15,166). Trait extraversion was the strongest predictor of day-to-day social touch attitudes (e.g., handshakes), where greater extraversion predicted more positive attitudes. Attachment avoidance and anxiety most strongly predicted attitudes and experiences of intimate touch (e.g., kissing, caressing). This study is the first to analyse the relative contribution of individual difference predictors to this broad range of touch attitudes and experiences. Findings highlight the complex interplay between perceiver and context in shaping touch experiences.

Contemporary integrative interpersonal theory (CIIT) posits that successful social interactions are characterized by complementarity: correspondence in interpersonal warmth and reciprocity in interpersonal dominance. Interactions with high complementarity evoke more positive affect and less negative affect. Modeling complementarity is challenging because it requires capturing the interpersonal behavior of individuals along the two dimensions of warmth and dominance. This study compares three approaches—statistical interaction, multilevel response surface analysis, and Euclidean distance—for modeling complementarity across four datasets. The approaches varied in the consistency of findings and proportion of variance explained. Findings suggest the Euclidean approach for parsimony and theoretical coherence, whereas multilevel response surface analysis is preferable for comprehensively modeling the interplay of self and other on the interpersonal dimensions.

Six studies (total valid N = 1835) examined the impact of personal relative deprivation on moral judgments of one’s own unethical behavior and the moderating role of sense of control. It was found that individuals high (vs. low) on relative deprivation were more likely to endorse lenient moral standards for themselves regarding various imagined transgressions. Moreover, Studies 4–6 also provided evidence for a positive moderation effect of sense of control in the relationship between relative deprivation and the acceptability of one’s own moral transgressions. These findings suggest that individuals, especially those with a high sense of control, may justify their immoral actions to compensate for the hurt feelings of relative deprivation.