ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Emotional (in)stability: Neuroticism is associated with increased variability in negative emotion after all.
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Abstract
The personality trait neuroticism is tightly linked to mental health, and neurotic people experience stronger negative emotions in everyday life. But, do their negative emotions also show greater fluctuation? This commonsensical notion was recently questioned by [Kalokerinos
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