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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Adrian Furnham is affiliated with the BI Norwegian Business School in Norway and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

The main topics of research addressed by Furnham include personality traits and psychology, emotional intelligence and performance, personality disorders and psychopathology, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, social and intergroup psychology, cognitive abilities and testing, and eating disorders and behaviors.

Furnham has contributed to various publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Psychology
  • Body Image
  • Acta Psychologica
  • PLoS ONE

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Furnham are:

  • "Do you have to be mad to believe in conspiracy theories? Personality disorders and conspiracy theories," 2021, International Journal of Social Psychiatry
  • "COVID-19-related stress and anxiety are associated with negative body image in adults from the United Kingdom," 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
  • "Taking it apart and putting it back together again: Using Item Pool Visualisation to summarise complex data patterns in (positive) body image research," 2020, Body Image
  • "Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age," 2023, Body Image
  • "Preferences for scarce medical resource allocation: Differences between experts and the general public and implications for the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, British Journal of Health Psychology

Co-authorship plays a significant role in Furnham's research, with frequent collaborators including:

  • Viren Swami
  • Charlotte Robinson
  • George Horne
  • Simmy Grover
  • Luke Treglown

Furnham has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press: "Twenty Ways to Assess Personnel," published in 2021.

For their academic contributions, Furnham holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Trait emotional intelligence: Psychometric investigation with reference to established trait taxonomies.

    Konstantinos Petrides;A Furnham

  • Psychology Culture Shock

    Colleen A. Ward;Stephen Bochner;Adrian Furnham

  • Culture shock: Psychological reactions to unfamiliar environments

    Adrian Furnham;Stephen Bochner

  • On the dimensional structure of emotional intelligence

    K.V. Petrides;Adrian Furnham

  • Trait emotional intelligence: Behavioural validation in two studies of emotion recognition and reactivity to mood induction

    Konstantinos Petrides;A Furnham

  • The role of trait emotional intelligence in academic performance and deviant behavior at school

    K.V Petrides;Norah Frederickson;Adrian Furnham

  • The Dark Triad of Personality: A 10 Year Review

    Adrian Furnham;Steven C. Richards;Delroy L. Paulhus

  • The Psychology of Behaviour at Work: The Individual in the Organization

    Adrian Furnham

  • Response bias, social desirability and dissimulation

    Adrian Furnham

  • A literature review of the anchoring effect

    Adrian Furnham;Hua Chu Boo

  • Personality predicts academic performance: Evidence from two longitudinal university samples

    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic;Adrian Furnham

  • Creativity, Intelligence, and Personality: A Critical Review of the Scattered Literature

    Mark Batey;Adrian Furnham

  • Body image dissatisfaction: Gender differences in eating attitudes, self-esteem, and reasons for exercise

    Adrian Furnham;Nicola Badmin;Ian Sneade

  • Belief in a just world: research progress over the past decade

    Adrian Furnham

  • The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence in a Gender‐Specific Model of Organizational Variables

    Konstantinos Petrides;A Furnham

  • Social difficulty in a foreign culture: An empirical analysis of culture shock.

    Adrian Furnham;Stephen Bochner

  • The Psychology of Money

    Adrian Furnham;Michael Argyle

  • The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I

    Viren Swami;David A Frederick;Toivo Aavik;Lidia Alcalay

  • Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories

    Viren Swami;Martin Voracek;Stefan Stieger;Ulrich S. Tran

  • Lay Theories: Everyday Understanding of Problems in the Social Sciences

    Adrian Furnham

  • Employment and unemployment: a social-psychological analysis: Marie Jahoda, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 112 pages, £10.50 (hardback), £3.95 (paperback).

    Adrian Furnham

  • Culture Shock: Psychological Reactions to Unfamiliar Environments

    Linda Crawford-Lange;Adrian Furnham;Stephen Bochner

Frequent Co-Authors

Viren Swami
Viren Swami Anglia Ruskin University
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic University College London
Barrie Gunter
Barrie Gunter University of Leicester
Bruce Kirkcaldy
Bruce Kirkcaldy Ruhr University Bochum
Konstantinos V. Petrides
Konstantinos V. Petrides University College London
Chris J. Jackson
Chris J. Jackson University of New South Wales
Martin Voracek
Martin Voracek University of Vienna
Félix Neto
Félix Neto University of Porto
Martin J. Tovée
Martin J. Tovée Northumbria University
Chris R. Brewin
Chris R. Brewin University College London

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