APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Personality Predictors or Romantic Infatuation

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Krystal Duarte
    California State University, Fresno
  • Maribell Garcia
    California State University, Fresno
  • Michael Botwin
    California State University, Fresno
  • Hope Castro
    California State University, Fresno

Abstract

Participants completed a personality questionnaire, then led through a mood induction technique arousing romantic infatuation (RI), and completed an RI act report. Openness, extraversion, and emotional stability predicted RI. For men, extraversion predicted RI. For women; openness emotional stability, and agreeableness predicted the RI. Discussion focuses the nature of RI.

Personality

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