Personality, Cognitive Models Of

Keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Cognitive neuroscience; Coping; Executive function; Five-factor model; Implicit measures; Information processing; Metacognition; Self-regulation; Self-schema; Traits

Abstract

Cognitive models of personality assume that people differ in their styles of understanding the world and themselves. More specifically, people differ in core self-beliefs and in the processes that shape and maintain the self. Contemporary research has focused on stable individual differences in cognitive content and process that may be associated with major personality traits. Studies of self-regulation and coping link traits to cognitive theories of these constructs. Studies using objective performance metrics allow traits to be further related to individual differences in information-processing. Cognitive neuroscience and cognitive-adaptive theory provide contrasting perspectives on the place of processing differences in personality.

Publication Date

3-26-2015

Publication Title

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition

Number of Pages

870-875

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.25075-7

Socpus ID

85043430996 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85043430996

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