TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Neuroticism predicts reactions to cues of social inclusion
JO  - European journal of personality
A1  - Denissen, Jaap J. A.
A1  - Penke, Lars
SP  - 497
EP  - 517
VL  - 22
IS  - 6
N2  - In the current paper, we hypothesized that people who are high in neuroticism (N) share a motivational predisposition to react vigilantly to threatening cues, most of which tend to be social in humans. In three studies, support for this prediction was found: based on cross-sectional and diary data, it was found that the self-esteem (SE) of individuals high in N decreases more in response to perceptions of relationship conflict and low relationship quality than that of emotionally stable ones. In a study of people's reactions to imagined threats, neurotic individuals showed a heightened sensitivity to both nonsocial and social cues, though reactions to social cues were somewhat more pronounced. Results are consistent with principles from evolutionary and process-oriented personality psychology. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> 
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SN  - 0890-2070
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.682
ID  - ref1
ER  -