title: Personality and performance on a frustrating cognitive task.
abstract: Eysenck's biological model of personality suggests that extravertive persons will not persevere when solving boring, frustrating problems. This hypothesis was tested using a difficult jigsaw task. Quitting behaviour was strongly associated with scores on Extraversion.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast, UK. c.cooper@qub.ac.uk
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005639:Frustration; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011340:Problem Solving; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis