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    Adult Attachment and Personality as Predictors of Jealousy in Romantic Relationships
    with Marina Richter, Philipp Thomas, and Stefan Johannes Troche
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    Functional relationships between romantic jealousy and traits, such as neuroticism or adult attachment styles, are well-known. For the first time, we conducted a joint analysis of the Big Five traits and attachment dimensions as predictors of jealousy, which considered gender differences as well as differences in infidelity experiences and relationship status. In 847 participants, path modeling showed that higher neuroticism, lower agreeableness, and lower openness predicted higher romantic jeal…Read more
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    A meta-analysis of the relationship between emotion recognition ability and intelligence
    with Tristan Palese, Marianne Schmid Mast, Thomas H. Rammsayer, Judith A. Hall, and Nora A. Murphy
    Cognition and Emotion 34 (2): 329-351. 2019.
    The ability to recognise others’ emotions from nonverbal cues is measured with performance-based tests and has many positive correlates. Although researchers have...
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    ABSTRACTEmotion understanding, which can broadly be defined as expertise in the meaning of emotion, is a core component of emotional intelligence and facilitates better intra- and interpersonal outcomes. However, to date only very few standard tests to measure emotion understanding in healthy adults exist. Here, we present two new performance-based tests that were developed and are scored based on componential emotion theory and large-scale cross-cultural empirical findings. These instruments in…Read more
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    Despite widespread support for the idea of measuring EI as an ability based on Mayer and Salovey’s model, only a few performance-based EI tests have been developed. I argue that both the original and updated ability EI model provide little guidance for a theory-driven generation of items and their scoring, as the functions and processes associated with high and low EI are not specified in enough detail. One solution is to draw on theories from other fields when creating a measurement rationale f…Read more