Jüri Allik

TL;DR: Assessment of personality and emotional experience in a group of patients with clinically diagnosed eating disorders, a weight-reduction training group (Weight Watchers), and a control group without body weight problems demonstrated validity of the Estonian version of EDI-2 in its ability to identify problems on a continuum of disordered eating behavior.

TL;DR: The authors found that the self-reported mind-reading ability was not correlated with actual performance, and that the actual mindreading performance was correlated with IQ scores, but not with psychometrically measured intelligence, and they concluded that people who believe that they are good at reading others' minds are generally neither significantly better than the others in recognition of emotions expressed in face or speech, nor superior in their estimation of the personality traits of a stranger.

TL;DR: Keltikangas-Jarvinen and Terav as mentioned in this paper found that Russians living in Estonia were less collectivistic with regard to their families and society than the Russians from Moscow corroborating the general rule that those who have migrated to other countries are usually more individualistic than those who had stayed in their resident countries.

TL;DR: Within the Genetics of Personality Consortium, it is demonstrated for two clinically relevant personality traits, Neuroticism and Extraversion, how Item-Response Theory (IRT) can be applied to map item data from different inventories to the same underlying constructs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that personality dimensions measured by the NEO Personality Inventory stay clearly apart from academic abilities and psychometrically measured intelligence, and that most of the valid variance in academic achievement and intelligence was not related to personality measures in the Estonian population.