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  2. Personality (Lloyd Price song) - Wikipedia

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    "Personality" is a 1959 song with music and lyrics by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price. It was released as a single by Price, [ 2 ] and became one of Lloyd Price's most popular crossover hits. The single reached number 2 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 , kept from the number 1 spot by " The Battle of New Orleans " by Johnny Horton . [ 3 ]

  3. Sad clown paradox - Wikipedia

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    Comedians have also been shown to display high levels of psychotic personality traits, scoring high in introvertive anhedonia and impulsive non-conformity. [10] The instability between depressive traits and more extroverted, manic states is traditionally described as cyclothymic temperament . [ 10 ]

  4. Biological basis of personality - Wikipedia

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    Eysenck's three-factor model of personality was a causal theory of personality based on activation of reticular formation and limbic system. The reticular formation is a region in the brainstem that is involved in mediating arousal and consciousness. The limbic system is involved in mediating emotion, behavior, motivation, and long-term memory.

  5. Personality neuroscience - Wikipedia

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    Personality neuroscience uses neuroscientific methods to study the neurobiological mechanisms underlying individual differences in stable psychological attributes. . Specifically, personality neuroscience aims to investigate the relationships between inter-individual variation in brain structures as well as functions and behavioral measures of persistent psychological traits, broadly defined ...

  6. Psychology of music preference - Wikipedia

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    A meta-analysis conducted by Schäfer and Mehlorn, (2017) of previous studies trying to determine if experience seeking or any of the Big-Five personality traits predicted musical preferences, revealed that the correlation coefficient between music genre and personality traits possessed a magnitude greater than 0.1 in only 6 out of the 30 ...

  7. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    Relief theory suggests humor is a mechanism for pent-up emotions or tension through emotional relief. In this theory, laughter serves as a homeostatic mechanism by which psychological stress is reduced [1] [2] [6] Humor may thus facilitate ease of the tension caused by one's fears, for example.

  8. Two-factor models of personality - Wikipedia

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    The two-factor model of personality is a widely used psychological factor analysis measurement of personality, behavior and temperament. It most often consists of a matrix measuring the factor of introversion and extroversion with some form of people versus task orientation.

  9. Personality (Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke song)

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    Personality" is a popular song with lyrics by Johnny Burke and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. It was written for the 1946 film Road to Utopia , and Dorothy Lamour performed it in the movie. [ 1 ] Van Heusen said that he wrote the song with a limited vocal range to accommodate Lamour.