Happiness around the world: A combined etic-emic approach across 63 countries

G Gardiner, D Lee, E Baranski, D Funder… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
What does it mean to be happy? The vast majority of cross-cultural studies on happiness
have employed a Western-origin, or “WEIRD” measure of happiness that conceptualizes it …

Personality structure in east and west Africa: Lexical studies of personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo.

AG Thalmayer, G Saucier, L Ole-Kotikash… - Journal of Personality …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
The field of psychology relies heavily on evidence from North America and Northern Europe.
Universally applicable models require input from around the globe. Indigenous lexical …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporating prosocial vs. antisocial trait content in Big Five measurement: Lessons from the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2)

JJA Denissen, CJ Soto, R Geenen, OP John… - Journal of Research in …, 2022 - Elsevier
In three studies, we tried to create a novel scale within the existing Big Five Inventory 2 (BFI-
2) structure to measure prosocial vs. antisocial personality traits, like the Dark Triad and …

Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries

DI Lee, G Gardiner, E Baranski… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The current study seeks to replicate and extend principal findings reported in The
World at 7: 00, a project that examined the psychological experience of situations in 20 …

Common genetic and environmental bases of the mental disorders and personality traits: Special focus on the hierarchical model of psychopathology and NEO‐PI‐R …

D Mitrović, L Mihić, S Sadiković… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examined whether phenotypic correlations between
psychopathological dimensions and personality traits of different hierarchical levels …

MIsgivings about measurement invariance

DC Funder, G Gardiner - European Journal of Personality, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper critically evaluates the conventional insistence on establishing measurement
invariance (MI) in cross-cultural psychology. We argue that complex and seemingly arbitrary …

Hereditary and environmental factors of the Five-Factor Model traits: A cross-cultural study

S Smederevac, D Mitrović, S Sadiković… - Personality and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study examines cultural differences in genetic and environmental influences on Five-
Factor Model (FFM) across Croatian, German and Serbian cultures. Participants were 1021 …

The economic well-being of nations is associated with positive daily situational experiences

G Gardiner, DI Lee, E Baranski, DC Funder… - Current Research in …, 2023 - Elsevier
People in economically advantaged nations tend to evaluate their life as more positive
overall and report greater well-being than people in less advantaged nations. But how does …

Personality traits and perception of parenting: The comparative twin study from Germany and Serbia

I Milovanović, D Mitrović, B Branovački… - International Journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the aetiology of the relationship between personality traits and
perceived parenting in light of cross‐cultural differences. The sample consisted of 188 …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the association between neuroticism and negativity bias in evaluative counterconditioning

C Bunghez, J De Houwer, A Rusu, FA Sava - Learning and Motivation, 2024 - Elsevier
People high on neuroticism express a negativity bias in attention, memory, and
interpretation, giving primacy to negative rather than positive information. Investigating …