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Papers by Danilo Garcia
Against an ever-increasing background of sedentary lifestyles and the over-indulgence of unsuitab... more Against an ever-increasing background of sedentary lifestyles and the over-indulgence of unsuitable food/drink intake, the advent of video/internet games may be viewed as commodity defined by opposing assets and liabilities. The latter emanate from the aggressiveness, violence, desensitization, criminality and loss of impulse control associated with violent action video games and may eventually culminate in the internet gaming disorder condition whereas the former are linked to educational opportunities and interventions to promote physical activity in the sedentary, improved visuomotor and cognitive skills in both healthy volunteers, young and aged, and those individuals diagnosed with neurologic disorders. Several brain regions have been found to be affected by video game-play in apparently beneficial and non-beneficial directions, sometimes hemisphere-specific, including regions of the frontal and parietal lobes, hippocampus, thalamus and hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal axis, with ...
The aim of the study was to analyze freely generated self-presentations through the natural langu... more The aim of the study was to analyze freely generated self-presentations through the natural language processing technique of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). Four hundred fifty-one participants (F = 360; M = 143) recruited from LinkedIn (a professional social network) were randomly assigned to generate 10 words to describe themselves to either an employer (recruitment-condition) or a friend (friendship-condition). The words’ frequency-rate and their semantic representation were compared between condi-tions and to the natural language (Google’s n-gram database). Self-presentations produced in the recruitment condition (vs. natural language) had significantly higher number of agentic words (e.g., problem-solver, responsible, able team-worker) and their contents were semantically closer to the concept of agency (i.e., competence, assertiveness, decisiveness) comparing to the friendship condition. Further-more, the valence of the self-presentations’ words was higher (i.e., with a more po...
Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience, 2019
Statistical Semantics, 2020
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2017
Clinical and Experimental Psychology, 2016
Molecular Psychiatry, 2019
Phylogenetic, developmental, and brain-imaging studies suggest that human personality is the inte... more Phylogenetic, developmental, and brain-imaging studies suggest that human personality is the integrated expression of three major systems of learning and memory that regulate (1) associative conditioning, (2) intentionality, and (3) self-awareness. We have uncovered largely disjoint sets of genes regulating these dissociable learning processes in different clusters of people with (1) unregulated temperament profiles (i.e., associatively conditioned habits and emotional reactivity), (2) organized character profiles (i.e., intentional self-control of emotional conflicts and goals), and (3) creative character profiles (i.e., self-aware appraisal of values and theories), respectively. However, little is known about how these temperament and character components of personality are jointly organized and develop in an integrated manner. In three large independent genome-wide association studies from Finland, Germany, and Korea, we used a data-driven machine learning method to uncover joint...
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
PeerJ
Background Personality is the major predictor of people’s subjective well-being (i.e., positive a... more Background Personality is the major predictor of people’s subjective well-being (i.e., positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction). Recent research in countries with high-income and strong self-transcendent values shows that well-being depends on multidimensional configurations of temperament and character traits (i.e., Joint Personality Networks) that regulate the way people learn to adapt their habits to be in accord with their goals and values, rather than individual traits. To evaluate the prevalence and the associations of different Joint Personality (temperament-character) Networks with well-being in a low-income country with weak self-transcendent values, we tested their association in Bulgarian adults, a population known to have strong secular-rationalist values but weak self-transcendent values. Method The sample consisted of 443 individuals from Bulgaria (68.70% females) with a mean age of 34 years (SD = 15.05). Participants self-reported personality (Temperam...
PeerJ
Background Even though tobacco is one of the most preventable causes of death worldwide, it endan... more Background Even though tobacco is one of the most preventable causes of death worldwide, it endangers more than 8 million people yearly. In this context, meta-analyses suggest that a significant part of the general Iranian population over 15 years of age smoke and that there is a need for good screening tools for smoking cravings and urges in Iran. The present study reported the translation and investigated the psychometric properties (i.e., factor structure, validity, and reliability) of the Persian version of the Questionnaire on Smoking Urges (QSU) with 12 items in the Iranian context. Method The translation process and content validity of the items were examined entirely in an expert panel using the Content Validity Index. The total sample of participants in which the translated version was tested consisted of 392 (172 female, 220 male, Mage = 22.31 years, SD = 2.90) university students who answered the QSU 12-item at the start of their participation in smoking cessation interve...
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2020
Personality and Individual Differences, 2017
Brain Sciences
Introduction: The rise in armed conflicts has contributed to an increase in the number of asylum ... more Introduction: The rise in armed conflicts has contributed to an increase in the number of asylum seekers. Prolonged asylum processes may negatively affect asylum seekers’ health and lead to inactivity. Studies show that physical activity interventions are associated with improvements in health outcomes. However, there are a limited number of studies investigating the associations of physical activity on asylum seekers’ health. Methods: Participants (263 males and 204 females), mostly from Syria, were assessed before and after a 10-week intervention for VO2 max, body mass index (BMI), skeletal muscle mass (SMM), body fat, and visceral fat. Linear mixed models were used to test differences within groups, and a linear regression model analysis was performed to test whether physiological variables predicted adherence. Results: Participants’ VO2 max increased: males by 2.96 mL/min/kg and females 2.57 mL/min/kg. Increased SMM percentages were seen in both genders: females by 0.38% and mal...
Statistical Semantics, 2020
Happiness or subjective well-being is often measured by assessing individuals’ judgments of life ... more Happiness or subjective well-being is often measured by assessing individuals’ judgments of life satisfaction and experience of positive and negative affect (Diener, Psychological Bulletin, 95, 542–575, 1984). In addition, recent research suggests that individuals’ sense of harmony in life is also an important component of subjective well-being (Kjell et al., Social Indicators Research, 126, 893–919, 2016; Nima et al., Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 3016, 2020a; Nima et al., Validation of a general subjective well-being factor using classic test theory, 2020b). Happiness, is largely explained by temperament traits such as emotional stability and extraversion, but also by specific life circumstances such as being married, having a reasonable income, having a job, and having meaningful social connections, and last but not the least by individuals’ values and goals or what they make of themselves intentionally, that is, character traits such as self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence (Myers and Diener, Psychological Science, 6, 10–18, 1995; Diener et al., Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 176–184, 2018; Cloninger, Feeling good: The science of well-being, Oxford University Press, 2004; Garcia and Archer, The Journal of Happiness and Well-Being, 4, 212–225, 2016; Garcia et al., PsyCh Journal, 7, 103–104, 2018a; PsyCh Journal, 7, 53–54, 2018b; Lester et al., Annals of General Psychiatry, 15, 10, 2016). In this context, subjective well-being reflects an overall evaluation of the quality of a person’s life from her own perspective. In other words, happiness, operationalized as subjective well-being, is cognitive in nature because it consists of people’s own judgments of their life as a whole (Garcia et al., A biopsychosocial model of subjective well-being (under editorial evaluation), n.d., under editorial evaluation). As such, it is influenced by what is salient in people’ minds at the moment of the assessment. Indeed, global judgments of happiness are based on previous experiences that have caused evaluative reactions and emotional reactions. These reactions are then, depending on different factors, more or less accessible when a person is asked to judge and rate her global levels of happiness (Kim-Prieto et al., Journal of Happiness Studies, 6, 261–300, 2005). This framework is indeed not static, the recollection of an event might elicit different emotions and judgments of happiness depending on, for example, the person’s situation, temperament, character, and identity (cf. Chap. 8 in this volume). That is to say, a wide range of information is used when individuals are asked to assess their subjective well-being (for a review see Schwartz and Strack, Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology, Russell Sage Found, 1999).
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2017
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2017
Against an ever-increasing background of sedentary lifestyles and the over-indulgence of unsuitab... more Against an ever-increasing background of sedentary lifestyles and the over-indulgence of unsuitable food/drink intake, the advent of video/internet games may be viewed as commodity defined by opposing assets and liabilities. The latter emanate from the aggressiveness, violence, desensitization, criminality and loss of impulse control associated with violent action video games and may eventually culminate in the internet gaming disorder condition whereas the former are linked to educational opportunities and interventions to promote physical activity in the sedentary, improved visuomotor and cognitive skills in both healthy volunteers, young and aged, and those individuals diagnosed with neurologic disorders. Several brain regions have been found to be affected by video game-play in apparently beneficial and non-beneficial directions, sometimes hemisphere-specific, including regions of the frontal and parietal lobes, hippocampus, thalamus and hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal axis, with ...
The aim of the study was to analyze freely generated self-presentations through the natural langu... more The aim of the study was to analyze freely generated self-presentations through the natural language processing technique of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). Four hundred fifty-one participants (F = 360; M = 143) recruited from LinkedIn (a professional social network) were randomly assigned to generate 10 words to describe themselves to either an employer (recruitment-condition) or a friend (friendship-condition). The words’ frequency-rate and their semantic representation were compared between condi-tions and to the natural language (Google’s n-gram database). Self-presentations produced in the recruitment condition (vs. natural language) had significantly higher number of agentic words (e.g., problem-solver, responsible, able team-worker) and their contents were semantically closer to the concept of agency (i.e., competence, assertiveness, decisiveness) comparing to the friendship condition. Further-more, the valence of the self-presentations’ words was higher (i.e., with a more po...
Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience, 2019
Statistical Semantics, 2020
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2017
Clinical and Experimental Psychology, 2016
Molecular Psychiatry, 2019
Phylogenetic, developmental, and brain-imaging studies suggest that human personality is the inte... more Phylogenetic, developmental, and brain-imaging studies suggest that human personality is the integrated expression of three major systems of learning and memory that regulate (1) associative conditioning, (2) intentionality, and (3) self-awareness. We have uncovered largely disjoint sets of genes regulating these dissociable learning processes in different clusters of people with (1) unregulated temperament profiles (i.e., associatively conditioned habits and emotional reactivity), (2) organized character profiles (i.e., intentional self-control of emotional conflicts and goals), and (3) creative character profiles (i.e., self-aware appraisal of values and theories), respectively. However, little is known about how these temperament and character components of personality are jointly organized and develop in an integrated manner. In three large independent genome-wide association studies from Finland, Germany, and Korea, we used a data-driven machine learning method to uncover joint...
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
PeerJ
Background Personality is the major predictor of people’s subjective well-being (i.e., positive a... more Background Personality is the major predictor of people’s subjective well-being (i.e., positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction). Recent research in countries with high-income and strong self-transcendent values shows that well-being depends on multidimensional configurations of temperament and character traits (i.e., Joint Personality Networks) that regulate the way people learn to adapt their habits to be in accord with their goals and values, rather than individual traits. To evaluate the prevalence and the associations of different Joint Personality (temperament-character) Networks with well-being in a low-income country with weak self-transcendent values, we tested their association in Bulgarian adults, a population known to have strong secular-rationalist values but weak self-transcendent values. Method The sample consisted of 443 individuals from Bulgaria (68.70% females) with a mean age of 34 years (SD = 15.05). Participants self-reported personality (Temperam...
PeerJ
Background Even though tobacco is one of the most preventable causes of death worldwide, it endan... more Background Even though tobacco is one of the most preventable causes of death worldwide, it endangers more than 8 million people yearly. In this context, meta-analyses suggest that a significant part of the general Iranian population over 15 years of age smoke and that there is a need for good screening tools for smoking cravings and urges in Iran. The present study reported the translation and investigated the psychometric properties (i.e., factor structure, validity, and reliability) of the Persian version of the Questionnaire on Smoking Urges (QSU) with 12 items in the Iranian context. Method The translation process and content validity of the items were examined entirely in an expert panel using the Content Validity Index. The total sample of participants in which the translated version was tested consisted of 392 (172 female, 220 male, Mage = 22.31 years, SD = 2.90) university students who answered the QSU 12-item at the start of their participation in smoking cessation interve...
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2020
Personality and Individual Differences, 2017
Brain Sciences
Introduction: The rise in armed conflicts has contributed to an increase in the number of asylum ... more Introduction: The rise in armed conflicts has contributed to an increase in the number of asylum seekers. Prolonged asylum processes may negatively affect asylum seekers’ health and lead to inactivity. Studies show that physical activity interventions are associated with improvements in health outcomes. However, there are a limited number of studies investigating the associations of physical activity on asylum seekers’ health. Methods: Participants (263 males and 204 females), mostly from Syria, were assessed before and after a 10-week intervention for VO2 max, body mass index (BMI), skeletal muscle mass (SMM), body fat, and visceral fat. Linear mixed models were used to test differences within groups, and a linear regression model analysis was performed to test whether physiological variables predicted adherence. Results: Participants’ VO2 max increased: males by 2.96 mL/min/kg and females 2.57 mL/min/kg. Increased SMM percentages were seen in both genders: females by 0.38% and mal...
Statistical Semantics, 2020
Happiness or subjective well-being is often measured by assessing individuals’ judgments of life ... more Happiness or subjective well-being is often measured by assessing individuals’ judgments of life satisfaction and experience of positive and negative affect (Diener, Psychological Bulletin, 95, 542–575, 1984). In addition, recent research suggests that individuals’ sense of harmony in life is also an important component of subjective well-being (Kjell et al., Social Indicators Research, 126, 893–919, 2016; Nima et al., Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 3016, 2020a; Nima et al., Validation of a general subjective well-being factor using classic test theory, 2020b). Happiness, is largely explained by temperament traits such as emotional stability and extraversion, but also by specific life circumstances such as being married, having a reasonable income, having a job, and having meaningful social connections, and last but not the least by individuals’ values and goals or what they make of themselves intentionally, that is, character traits such as self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence (Myers and Diener, Psychological Science, 6, 10–18, 1995; Diener et al., Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 176–184, 2018; Cloninger, Feeling good: The science of well-being, Oxford University Press, 2004; Garcia and Archer, The Journal of Happiness and Well-Being, 4, 212–225, 2016; Garcia et al., PsyCh Journal, 7, 103–104, 2018a; PsyCh Journal, 7, 53–54, 2018b; Lester et al., Annals of General Psychiatry, 15, 10, 2016). In this context, subjective well-being reflects an overall evaluation of the quality of a person’s life from her own perspective. In other words, happiness, operationalized as subjective well-being, is cognitive in nature because it consists of people’s own judgments of their life as a whole (Garcia et al., A biopsychosocial model of subjective well-being (under editorial evaluation), n.d., under editorial evaluation). As such, it is influenced by what is salient in people’ minds at the moment of the assessment. Indeed, global judgments of happiness are based on previous experiences that have caused evaluative reactions and emotional reactions. These reactions are then, depending on different factors, more or less accessible when a person is asked to judge and rate her global levels of happiness (Kim-Prieto et al., Journal of Happiness Studies, 6, 261–300, 2005). This framework is indeed not static, the recollection of an event might elicit different emotions and judgments of happiness depending on, for example, the person’s situation, temperament, character, and identity (cf. Chap. 8 in this volume). That is to say, a wide range of information is used when individuals are asked to assess their subjective well-being (for a review see Schwartz and Strack, Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology, Russell Sage Found, 1999).
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2017
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2017