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Gerald Matthews is a faculty member at the Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida. He is an experimental psychologist whose research focuses on using cognitive science to understanding the interrelationships between personality traits and cognitive and emotional processes. His work includes both basic laboratory studies as well as applied research.

Early Life and Educational Background

Gerald Matthews was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on July 2, 1959. He attended the Edinburgh Academy and Gordonstoun, at which he shared a house but not a meeting of minds with Prince Andrew. He won a scholarship to read Natural Sciences at Clare College, University of Cambridge, with the intention of becoming a physicist. Finding diminishing intellectual returns in the study of physics, he turned first to geology and then to experimental psychology, in which he obtained his BA degree (first class) in 1980. He was awarded the department’s Passingham Prize. Remaining at...

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  • Finomore, V. S., Matthews, G., & Warm, J. S. (2009). Predicting vigilance: A fresh look at an old problem. Ergonomics, 52, 791–808.

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  • Matthews, G. (2000). A cognitive science critique of biological theories of personality traits. History and Philosophy of Psychology, 2, 1–17.

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  • Matthews, G. (2002). Towards a transactional ergonomics for driver stress and fatigue. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 3, 195–211.

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  • Matthews, G. (2016a). Traits, cognitive processes and adaptation: An elegy for Hans Eysenck’s personality theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 103, 61–67.

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  • Matthews, G. (in press-b). Cognitive-adaptive trait theory: A shift in perspective on personality. Journal of Personality.

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  • Matthews, G. (2016c). Multidimensional profiling of task stress states for human factors: A brief review. Human Factors, 58, 801–813.

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  • Matthews, G., & Campbell, S. E. (2010). Dynamic relationships between stress states and working memory. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 357–373.

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  • Matthews, G., & Gilliland, K. (1999). The personality theories of H.J. Eysenck and J.A. Gray: A comparative review. Personality and Individual Differences, 26, 583–626.

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  • Matthews, G., & Harley, T. A. (1993). Effects of extraversion and self-report arousal on semantic priming: A connectionist approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 735–756.

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  • Matthews, G., & Harley, T. A. (1996). Connectionist models of emotional distress and attentional bias. Cognition and Emotion, 10, 561–600.

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  • Matthews, G., & Zeidner, M. (2012). Individual differences in attentional networks: Trait and state correlates of the ANT. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 574–579.

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  • Matthews, G., Jones, D. M., & Chamberlain, A. G. (1989). Interactive effects of extraversion and arousal on attentional task performance: Multiple resources or encoding processes? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 629–639.

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  • Matthews, G., Jones, D. M., & Chamberlain, A. G. (1990a). Refining the measurement of mood: The UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist. British Journal of Psychology, 81, 17–42.

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  • Matthews, G., Davies, D. R., & Lees, J. L. (1990b). Arousal, extraversion, and individual differences in resource availability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 150–168.

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  • Matthews, G., Campbell, S. E., Falconer, S., Joyner, L., Huggins, J., Gilliland, K., Grier, R., & Warm, J. S. (2002a). Fundamental dimensions of subjective state in performance settings: Task engagement, distress and worry. Emotion, 2, 315–340.

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  • Matthews, G., Zeidner, M., & Roberts, R. (2002b). Emotional intelligence: Science and myth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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  • Matthews, G., Zeidner, M., & Roberts, R. D. (2004). Seven myths of emotional intelligence. Psychological Inquiry, 15, 179–196.

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  • Matthews, G., Emo, A. K., Funke, G., Zeidner, M., Roberts, R. D., Costa Jr., P. T., & Schulze, R. (2006). Emotional intelligence, personality, and task-induced stress. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12, 96–107.

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  • Matthews, G., Deary, I. J., & Whiteman, M. C. (2009). Personality traits (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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  • Matthews, G., Warm, J. S., Reinerman, L. E., Langheim, L., Washburn, D. A., & Tripp, L. (2010a). Task engagement, cerebral blood flow velocity, and diagnostic monitoring for sustained attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16, 187–203.

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  • Matthews, G., Warm, J. S., Reinerman, L. E., Langheim, L. K., & Saxby, D. J. (2010b). Task engagement, attention and executive control. In A. Gruszka, G. Matthews, & B. Szymura (Eds.), Handbook of individual differences in cognition: Attention, memory and executive control (pp. 205–230). New York: Springer.

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  • Matthews, G., Pérez-González, J.-C., Fellner, A. N., Funke, G. J., Emo, A. K., Zeidner, M., & Roberts, R. D. (2015a). Individual differences in facial emotion processing: Trait emotional intelligence, cognitive ability or transient stress? Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 33, 68–82.

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  • Matthews, G., Reinerman-Jones, L. E., Barber, D. J., & Abich, J. (2015b). The psychometrics of mental workload: Multiple measures are sensitive but divergent. Human Factors, 57, 125–143.

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  • Roberts, R. D., Zeidner, M., & Matthews, G. (2001). Does emotional intelligence meet traditional standards for an intelligence? Some new data and conclusions. Emotion, 1, 196–231.

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  • Rowden, P., Matthews, G., Watson, B., & Briggs, H. (2011). The relative impact of occupational stress, life stress, and driving environment stress on driving outcomes. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 44, 1332–1340.

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  • Wells, A., & Matthews, G. (1996). Modelling cognition in emotional disorder: The S-REF model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 881–888.

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  • Wells, A., & Matthews, G. (2015). Attention and emotion: A clinical perspective (Classic ed.). New York: Psychology Press.

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  • Zeidner, M., & Matthews, G. (2016). Ability emotional intelligence and mental health: Social support as a mediator. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 196–199.

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  • Zeidner, M., Matthews, G., & Roberts, R. D. (2012). The emotional intelligence, health, and well-being nexus: What have we learned and what have we missed? Applied Psychology. Health and Well-Being, 4, 1–30.

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  1. Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Lindsey Osterman

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Matthews, G. (2020). Matthews, Gerald. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_2226

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