• Beliefs about personal change 

      Furnham, Adrian; Sherman, Ryne A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In all, 510 Europeans completed an online questionnaire rating their beliefs about personal change, including the established Dweck Mindset measure. Their ratings of 27 characteristics from BMI to sexual preference factored ...
    • Correlates of belief in climate change: Demographics, ideology and belief systems 

      Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper reports on two studies that examine correlates of attitudes to climate change (ACC). In the first study, five hundred participants completed five questionnaires and an intelligence test as well as two related ...
    • Maladaptive (dark-side) and adaptive (bright-side) personality traits and defense styles 

      Furnham, Adrian; Cuppello, Stephen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This study explores the relationship between bright- and dark-side personality traits and four major styles of defense mechanisms (DMs) as this relationship remains unexplored and important in understanding the DMs. In ...
    • “Never mind the fine print”: The interaction of semantics with attitude strength beliefs on corporate cover-ups 

      Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Others, 2024)
      This study examined the interaction between attitude strength and the cognitive constraints imposed by the semantic properties of measurement items. It made use of digital algorithms and built on the semantic theory of ...
    • Sex and national differences in internet addiction in Egypt and Saudi Arabia 

      Bakhiet, Salaheldin Fararh; Ziada, Khaled Elsayed; Abdelrasheed, Nasser Siad Gomaa; Dutton, Edward; Madison, Guy; Almalki, Nabil Sharaf; Ihsan, Zohra; Furnham, Adrian; Essa, Yossry Ahmed Sayed (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: Understanding individual differences in psychology, and how they relate to specific addictions, may allow society to better identify those at most risk and even enact policies to ameliorate them. Internet ...
    • Sex in the dark: Sex differences on three measures of dark side personality 

      Furnham, Adrian; Horne, George (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This study examined sex differences in the scores on three different measures of the personality disorders (PDs) all derived from on-line surveys. Two groups (total N = 871) completed the Coolidge Axis-II Inventory which ...