Browsing BI Open by Author "Furnham, Adrian"

Ability, Demographic and Personality Predictors of Work Success

Furnham, Adrian (Journal article, 2020)

794 working people aged around 30 years completed three intelligence (Ravens Progressive matrices: GMA Numerical and GMA Verbal) and one personality test (16PF) before entering jobs in public service. They were all graduates ...

Advertisement-programme congruence in memory of sexual fragrance advertisements

Wong, Hiu Yan Amy; McClelland, Alastair; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

The current study explored the effect of sexual content in advertisements and the programme–advertisement congruence on the memory of sexual and nonsexual advertisements. Seventy participants (41 females and 29 males) were ...

Advertising: The contribution of applied cognitive psychology

Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)

This paper looks at the contribution of applied cognitive psychology primarily to the research on advertising. The first issue is to attempt to define and specify the unique contribution of applied, as opposed to “pure,” ...

Age, Sex, Education, Emotional Intelligence, Cognitive Intelligence, and Management Level: A Study from Great Britain

Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

Do non-, first-line, middle and senior managers differ in their cognitive ability and emotional intelligence? In this study we interested in the demographic and ability differences of people at different management levels. ...

The Allocation of a Scarce Medical Resource: A Cross-Cultural Study Investigating the Influence of Life Style Factors and Patient Gender, and the Coherence of Decision-making

Keh, C.; Furnham, Adrian; McClelland, Alastair; Wong, C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

This study examined how lifestyle factors and gender affect kidney allocation to transplant patients by 99 British and Singaporean participants. Thirty hypothetical patients were generated from a combination of six factors ...

Altruism and the Dark Triad

Trahair, Cassidy; MacDonald, Kristi B.; Furnham, Adrian; Schermer, Julie Aitken (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

Background: The Dark Triad literature examining pro-social behaviours is minimal, with mixed results. Participants and procedure: This study investigates the relationships between the Dark Triad and altruistic behaviours ...

An integrated perspective on insight

Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Furnham, Adrian; Hærem, Thorvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)

The present study on insight is based on an integration of Kaplan and Simon’s (1990) information processing theory of insight, a cognitive style theory, and achievement motivation theory. The style theory is the Assimilator ...

Antecedents and consequences of chronic impulsive buying: Can impulsive buying be understood as dysfunctional self‐regulation?

Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Dibb, Sally; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)

Researchers reach different conclusions about the functional or dysfunctional nature of impulsive buying behavior. While many note the use of impulsive buying as a form of mood regulation, there is disagreement about whether ...

Appearance Orientation and Dating Anxiety in Emerging Adults: Considering the Roles of Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity, Social Physique Anxiety, and Self-Compassion

Swami, Viren; Barron, David; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

Emerging research has suggested that appearance-related factors, such as greater appearance orientation, are associated with dating anxiety in emerging adults, but much more could be done to understand mechanistic pathways ...

Are modern health worries associated with medical conspiracy theories?

Lahrach, Y.; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)

This study was concerned with whether Medical Conspiracy Theories (MCTs), along with other variables (demographics, ideology and health perceptions) are associated with Modern Health Worries (MHWs). MCTs were significantly ...

Are modern health worries associated with medical conspiracy theories?

Lahrach, Y; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)

This study was concerned with whether Medical Conspiracy Theories (MCTs), along with other variables (demographics, ideology and health perceptions) are associated with Modern Health Worries (MHWs). MCTs were significantly ...

Are some interoceptive sensibility components more central than others? Using item pool visualisation to understand the psychometric representation of interoception

Todd, Jennifer; Swami, Viren; Aspell, Jane E.; Furnham, Adrian; Horne, George; Stieger, Stefan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

Interoception refers to the processing of stimuli originating within the body and is widely considered a multidimensional construct. However, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the definition and measurement of ...

Asexuality is inversely associated with positive body image in British adults

Swami, Viren; Laughton, Ryan; Grover, Simmy; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

Research on positive body image has infrequently considered sexual minority orientations beyond lesbians, gay men, and bisexual persons. Indeed, there is no existing research on the relationships between body image and ...

Association between culture and the preference for, and perceptions of, 11 routes of medicine administration: A survey in 21 countries and regions

Murdan, Sudaxshina; Wei, Li; van Riet-Nales, Diana A.; Gurmu, Abyot Endale; Usifoh, Stella Folajole; Tăerel, Adriana-Elena; Yıldız-Peköz, Ayca; Krajnović, Dušanka; Azzopardi, Lilian M.; Brock, Tina; Fernandes, Ana I.; dos Santos, André Luis Souza; Anto, Berko Panyin; Vallet, Thibault; Lee, Eunkyung Euni; Jeong, Kyeong Hye; Akel, Marwan; Tam, Eliza; Volmer, Daisy; Douss, Tawfik; Shukla, Sharvari; Yamamura, Shigeo; Lou, Xiaoe; van Riet, Bauke H.G.; Usifoh, Cyril O.; Duwiejua, Mahama; Ruiz, Fabrice; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)

Medicines can be taken by various routes of administration. These can impact the effects and perceptions of medicines. The literature about individuals' preferences for and perceptions of the different routes of administration ...

Associations between body image, social physique anxiety, and dating anxiety in heterosexual emerging adults

Swami, Viren; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

Studies have suggested that body image is associated with dating anxiety, but are limited by small sample sizes, singular operationalisations of body image, and a lack of consideration of the concurrent effects of social ...

Associations between childhood biomedical factors, maternal smoking, personality traits, Body and Mass Index and the prevalence of asthma in adulthood

Cheng, Helen; Montgomery, Scott; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)

Objective: The study set out to investigate socio-economic, biomedical, health and behavioural and psychological factors in childhood and adulthood associated with the prevalence of asthma in adulthood, drawing data from ...