• Myths and misconceptions about personality traits and tests 

      Furnham, Adrian; Robinson, Charlotte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This study examined the prevalence of myths about personality traits as set out in a book (Donnellan & Luca, 2021) and beliefs in the predictive validity of personality tests. In all, 616 participants completed a questionnaire ...
    • Narcissism and creativity 

      Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Furnham, Adrian; Lang-Ree, Ole Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      In this study, we investigated the relationship between narcissism, creative personality traits, ideational fluency, and accomplishments in various creative activities. We measured narcissism with the Narcissistic Personality ...
    • Personality and demographic correlates of political ideology 

      Furnham, Adrian; Horne, George (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper was concerned with “bright” and “dark-side” personality trait correlates of political beliefs. In a series of three studies we asked people to rate their political beliefs on a simple, single, left-right, ...
    • Personality and political orientation 

      Furnham, Adrian; Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This study examined the incremental validity of the Big-Five personality traits over primarily demographic factors in predicting Left-Right political orientation (PO) in a large British adult sample. Gender and trait ...
    • Personality at home vs. work: Does framing for work increase predictive validity of the Dark Triad on work outcomes? 

      Grover, Simmy; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In a between subject design 903 people completed a robust Dark Triad and a Big Five trait measure and each group was asked to report their behaviour in two situations: at work or in general. Those individuals that were ...
    • Psychopathy and Openness-to-experience as predictors of malevolent and benevolent creativity 

      Batey, M; Hughes, DJ; Mosley, A; Owens, CE; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This study examined personality antecedents of idea generation when pursuing either benevolent or malevolent goals. Specifically, 308 participants completed two Divergent Thinking tests. A malevolent divergent thinking ...
    • The Assimilator-Explorer styles and creativity 

      Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This study looked at the relationship between the Assimilator–Explorer (A-E) cognitive styles and creativity. A measure of creative activities, four divergent thinking tasks used as controls, and a measure of the A-E styles, ...
    • The change and stability of NEO scores over six-years: A British study and a short review 

      Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This study investigated the change and stability of the Big-Five personality factors measured on a short scale. Fifteen similar studies using longer instruments were reviewed. In this study 7554 participants aged between ...
    • The relationship between emotional intelligence and occupational personality scales in senior management 

      Furnham, Adrian; Taylor, Nicola (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This study attempted to examine the Emotional Intelligence (EI) domain and facet correlates of various personality-test derived occupational Scale dimensions like service, sales and management in a developing country. In ...