Steve Gangestad

TL;DR: An examination of reanalyses of studies of self-monitoring, analyses of the internal structure of the Self-Monitoring Scale, and further relevant data suggest that the measure does tap a meaningful and interpretable causal variable with pervasive influences on social behavior, a variable reflected as a general self- monitoring factor.

TL;DR: In this article, the existence of class variables in personality has been examined and the implications for conceptualizing and investigating the nature and origins of personality are discussed. But, as stated by the authors, "the arguments that generated it, and those that uphold it are applicable to class variables as they often have been explicated, in phenetic terms; by contrast, genetically explicated class variables are not vulnerable to these arguments."

TL;DR: This article examined the links between self-monitoring propensities and orientations toward sexual relations, and found that high selfmonitoring individuals tend to establish an unrestricted orientation towards sexual relations (such that they may engage in sex with others to whom they are not necessarily psychologically close), whereas low self monitoring individuals tended to establish a restricted orientation, such that they will engage in sexual relations only with partners to which they are psychologically close.

TL;DR: The authors examined the processes by which individuals choose social situations and found that willingness to enter or not to enter a situation was a direct reflection of the clarity with which the extraverted character of the situation was defined.