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SOCIABILITY [13 records]

Record 1 2019-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
  • Symbolism and Psychology of Language
CONT

The matched-guise test is a sociolinguistic experimental technique used to determine the true feelings of an individual or community towards a specific language, dialect, or accent. … In this technique experimental candidates [are] listening to apparently different speakers representing guises in two or more languages and evaluating those speakers across various traits including body height, good looks, leadership, sense of humor, intelligence, religiousness, self-confidence, dependability, kindness, ambition, sociability, character, and likability...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
  • Symbolique et psychologie du langage
CONT

[…] le test du locuteur masqué permet de déceler les perceptions – négatives ou positives – des gens envers une langue parlée, en l'occurrence ici, le français ontarien.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Characterology
DEF

Cheerfulness, sociability, trustworthiness, and social responsiveness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Caractérologie
DEF

Terme employé par Cattell pour désigner un facteur de tempérament, en rapport avec la bonne humeur, la sociabilité, la vivacité de compréhension, la capacité adaptative.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Characterology
DEF

A dimension of temperament characterized by relaxation and sociability.

DEF

The tendency toward gregariousness and physical comfort.

CONT

Characteristic of endomorphy is the personality constellation, viscerotonia, characterized by gluttony for food, love of comfort, sociability, need for affection, dependency, tolerance, and complacency.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Caractérologie
DEF

Type psychologique de Sheldon, caractérisé par une tendance à la relaxation, l'amour du confort, de la bonne chère, une grande sociabilité, le besoin de contact avec les êtres vivants, la recherche d'affection et d'approbation.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Silviculture
DEF

The tendency of organisms to grow together with others of the same kind.

OBS

Expressed by Braun-Blanquet on an arbitrary numerical scale from 1 (growing singly) to 5 (growing in great crowds or pure populations).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Sylviculture
DEF

Penchant naturel qui porte les organismes d'une même espèce à vivre en communauté. C'est le cas notamment des végétaux.

OBS

La sociabilité est délimitée par une échelle de 1 à 5 du botaniste J. Braun-Blanquet.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Silvicultura
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Record 5 2000-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

... the California Psychological Inventory(CPI)... is designed to measure more "normal" personality traits. It has scale measuring such traits as dominance, sociability, self-acceptance, responsibility, and socialization.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
  • Comportement humain
CONT

Le California Psychological Inventory [...] vise à connaître les modes de relation interpersonnels de l'individu et à identifier les facteurs de la personnalité qui déterminent son adaptation sociale. [...] La notation du test fournit dix-huit mesures correspondant à des traits de personnalité : [par exemple] dominance ou aptitude au leadership, capacité à acquérir un statut, sociabilité, présence sociale du type équilibré, spontanéité et confiance en soi, acceptation de soi [...]

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
CONT

Theory demonstrates that such consciousness states as "love" or "mystical" states are only states of exceedingly low paranoia and of progressively intensified sociability. In fact, there seems to be a "circuit of paranoia" in the CNS which would generate both paranoia and sociability, depending on how it is activated. Hyperactivation of this system would generate paranoid states while hypoactivation would generate sociable states, from love to mystical states. It is thus hypothesised that depressing paranoia(naturally or pharmacologically) leads automatically to increased sociability(probably through oxytocinergic neuromediation, etc.) while increasing paranoia(like with pentazocine, phenylisopropylamines) leads to associability and some psychopathologies such as paranoid schizophrenia, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
DEF

Transmission de l'influx nerveux d'une cellule nerveuse à une autre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema nervioso
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Record 7 1994-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
OBS

[A] paper-pencil measure of eight aspects of personality. Personal Profile measures ascendancy, responsibility, emotional stability, and sociability. Four traits combine to yield Self-Esteem score. Personal Inventory measures cautiousness, original thinking, personal relations and vigor. Respondents mark one item in each group of three as being most like them and one as being least like them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
OBS

Inventaire de personnalité - Profil de personnalité [...] Il s'agit de deux inventaires destinés à mesurer huit aspects de la personnalité. [...] Profil : indices d'ascendance, de responsabilité, de stabilité émotionnelle et de sociabilité. Inventaire : indice de prudence, d'originalité de la pensée, de relations personnelles et d'endurance dynamique.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
OBS

[A] multiple item paper-pencil inventory assessing the following six personality traits : neurotic tendency, self sufficiency, introversion-extroversion, dominance-submission, self-confidence, and sociability. The nature of the traits being measured are not readily detectable by the person taking the test.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
OBS

Le questionnaire de Bernreuter, créé en 1935, mesure six traits de personnalité : la tendance névrotique, le trait "se suffire à soi-même", l'introversion-extraversion, la domination-soumission, la confiance en soi et la sociabilité.

Spanish

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Record 9 1986-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

... the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey... yields separate scores for the following traits, each score based on 30 different items :... General Activity... Restraint... Ascendance... Sociability... Emotional Stability... Objectivity... Friendliness... Thoughtfulness... Personal Relations... Masculinity.... The items in the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey are expressed in the form of affirmative statements, rather than questions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
CONT

Inventaire de tempérament de Guilford et Zimmerman. Pour le sujet le test se présente sous la forme d'un cahier comportant trois cents phrases (...) Cet inventaire permet d'estimer dix traits de personnalité à partir de trente réponses par traits; ces dix traits sont les suivants : (...) Activité générale (...) Contrainte (...) Ascendance (...) Sociabilité (...) Stabilité émotionnelle (...) Objectivité (...) Bienveillance (...) Méditation (...) Relations personnelles (...) Masculinité (...)

Spanish

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Record 10 1986-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

a person considered as to his casual sociability.

CONT

was shy and a poor mixer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Comportement humain
OBS

"poor mixer" pourrait se rendre par peu sociable, solitaire, individualiste, fermé, selon le contexte.

Spanish

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Record 11 1986-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Layout of the Workplace
DEF

a room available to all members of a residential community for relaxation and sociability(the common room of an inn).

CONT

You may decide to relieve the austerity of the college lecture room and common rooms, by introducing some flowers ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Implantation des locaux de travail

Spanish

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Record 12 1985-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
DEF

(...) rapport entre la somme des traumatismes sociaux subis et la capacité individuelle de résistance ou degré de socialisation réelle.

Spanish

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Record 13 1979-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Christian Theology
DEF

employing or involving speech for the purpose of revealing or sharing feelings or establishing an atmosphere of sociability rather than for communicating ideas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théologies chrétiennes
CONT

La fonction phatique du langage.

Spanish

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