The Big Five related to risky sexual behaviour across 10 world regions: differential personality associations of sexual promiscuity and relationship infidelity

By D. Schmitt. 2004

342 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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In Clinical Psychology

1. D. Paulhus
2. Daniel N. Jones
3. P. Jonason
4. P. Vernon
5. L. Veselka
6. Dana A. Weiser
7. E. Giammarco
8. D. Schmitt

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. T. Shackelford
2. D. Paulhus
3. L. Veselka
4. Dana A. Weiser
5. Daniel Nettle
6. D. Schmitt
7. Daniel N. Jones
8. P. Vernon

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Daniel Nettle
2. Dana A. Weiser
3. T. Shackelford
4. Daniel N. Jones
5. Kevin M. Williams
6. D. Schmitt
7. D. Paulhus

Citations in the corpus

• The Dark Triad and the seven deadly sins (2014, background): “Sexual promiscuity has been shown to exhibit low but significant correlations with nearly all dimensions of the FFM (Schmitt, 2004), but also with the SPI traits of risk-taking and low-religiosity (e.”
• Differential infidelity patterns among the Dark Triad (2014, background): “For example, callous personality traits (e.g., disagreeableness, psychoticism) are associated with high rates of sexual activity and infidelity (Eysenck, 1976; Schmitt, 2004a).”
• The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals. (2006, background): “Highly conscientious individuals have fewer short-term mating episodes (Schmidt, 2004) and will forgo opportunities to take an immediate return that may be to their advantage.”
• Big Five Traits Related to Short-Term Mating: From Personality to Promiscuity across 46 Nations (2008, background): “…low agreeableness and low conscientiousness have been linked directly to short-term sexual behavior across many studies (Barta and Kiene, 2005; Buss and Shackelford, 1997; Hoyle et al., 2000; Markey, Markey, and Tinsley, 2003; Schmitt, 2004; Trobst et al., 2000; Wright and Reise, 1997).”
• Strategic misrepresentation in online dating: The effects of gender, self-monitoring, and personality traits (2010, background): “Specifically, personality traits affect relationship initiation (Barelds & Barelds-Dijkstra, 2007) and warrant greater attention in the study of courtship (Schmitt, 2004).”
• Inferring Sexually Deviant Behavior From Corresponding Fantasies (2009, background): “For example, higher levels of sexual activity, including both fantasies and behavior, have been linked to fundamental personality variables including extraversion (Eysenck, 1943), neuroticism (Wilson, 1997), and disagreeableness (Schmitt, 2004).”
• Social personality traits in chimpanzees: temporal stability and structure of behaviourally assessed personality traits in three captive populations (2011, neutral): “…and its higherlevel personality construct extraversion (Costa and McCrae 1992) predict the likelihood of having children (Jokela et al. 2009), initiation of social contacts (Buchanan et al. 2005), size of social networks (Swickert et al. 2002) and sexual activity (Nettle 2005; Schmitt 2004).”
• Predicting domain-specific risk taking with the HEXACO personality structure (2011, neutral): “…et al., 2008), health risks (e.g., Vollrath et al., 1999), delinquency (e.g., Heaven, 1996; van Dam, Janssens, & De Bruyn, 2005), and sexual risk taking (e.g., Miller, Lynam, Zimmerman, Logan, Leukefeld, & Clayton, 2004; Schmitt, 2004; Trobst, Wiggins, Costa, Herbst, McCrae, & Masters, 2000).”