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Politeness and compassion differentially predict adherence to fairness norms and interventions to norm violations in economic games (2017)
Journal Article

Adherence to norms and interventions to norm violations are two important forms of social behaviour modelled in economic games. While both appear to serve a prosocial function, they may represent separate mechanisms corresponding with distinct emotio... Read More about Politeness and compassion differentially predict adherence to fairness norms and interventions to norm violations in economic games.

How do personality and social structures interact with each other to predict important life outcomes?: the importance of accounting for personality change (2017)
Journal Article

Personality is important for a range of life outcomes. However, despite evidence that personality changes across time, there is a concerning tendency for researchers outside of personality psychology to treat measures of personality as if they are no... Read More about How do personality and social structures interact with each other to predict important life outcomes?: the importance of accounting for personality change.

A brief psychological intervention to reduce repetition of self-harm in patients admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt: a randomised controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license Background: We investigated whether a volitional helpsheet (VHS), a brief psychological intervention, could reduce repeat self-harm in the 6 month... Read More about A brief psychological intervention to reduce repetition of self-harm in patients admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt: a randomised controlled trial.

Future directions in personality, occupational and medical selection: myths, misunderstandings, measurement, and suggestions (2017)
Journal Article

This paper has two objectives: (1) presenting recent advances in the personality field concerning the conceptualization of personality arising from the dynamic interactions of behaviour, biology, context, and states, and (2) discussing the implicatio... Read More about Future directions in personality, occupational and medical selection: myths, misunderstandings, measurement, and suggestions.

When fair is not equal: compassion and politeness predict allocations of wealth under different norms of equity and need (2017)
Journal Article

Growing evidence has highlighted the importance of social norms in promoting prosocial behaviors in economic games. Specifically, individual differences in norm adherence—captured by the politeness aspect of Big Five agreeableness—has been found to p... Read More about When fair is not equal: compassion and politeness predict allocations of wealth under different norms of equity and need.