Senior Lecturer in Personality Psychology, University of Melbourne
I am a personality psychologist. Personality refers to regularities in behaviour and experience, typically quantified in terms of continuous trait dimensions that can be organised using taxonomic systems such as the "Big Five". Among other topics, I am interested in the psychological and biological processes that underlie major personality traits, how our personality influences our susceptibility to different kinds of emotional states, and how personality can influence social behaviour.
Disagreeability, neuroticism and stress: what drives panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic
Jul 02, 2020 15:37 pm UTC| Health
Panic buying has returned to Australia in the wake of its second-biggest city experiencing a spike in COVID-19. The Victorian government has reimposed stay-at-home restrictions on 36 of Melbournes 321 suburbs in...
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