Featured Publications
Trofimova, I., Potapov, A. & Sulis, W. (1998) Collective effects on individual behavior: in search of universality. International Journal of Chaos Theory and Applications, 3, 1-2, 53-63.
Trofimova I. (1999). How people of different age, sex and temperament estimate the world. Psychological Reports, 85/2, 533-552. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1999.85.2.533
Watkins D., Mortazavi S. & Trofimova I. (2000). Independent and interdependent conceptions of self: an investigation of age, gender and culture differences in importance and satisfaction ratings. Cross Cultural Research, 34, 2, 113-134.
Trofimova I. (2001a) Principles, concepts and phenomena of Ensembles with Variable Structure. In: Sulis W., Trofimova I. (Eds.) Nonlinear Dynamics in Life and Social Sciences. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Pp. 217-231.
Trofimova I. (2001b) Universals and specifics in psychology. In: Sulis W., Trofimova I. (Eds.) Nonlinear Dynamics in Life and Social Sciences. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Pp. 286-307
Trofimova I. (2003) Sociability, diversity and compatibility in developing systems: EVS approach. In: Nation J., Trofimova I., Rand J., Sulis W. (Eds.) Formal Descriptions of Developing Systems. Kluwer Press. Pp. 231-248. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0064-2_13
Trofimova, I. (2009) Exploration of the benefits of an activity-specific test of temperament. Psychological Reports, 105, 643-658.
Trofimova, I. (2010c). An investigation into differences between the structure of temperament and the structure of personality. The American Journal of Psychology, 123, 4, 467-480 DOI: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.123.4.0467
Trofimova, I. & Sulis W. (2011). Is temperament activity-specific? Validation of the Structure of Temperament Questionnaire – Compact (STQ-77). International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 11(3), 389-400.
Trofimova, I. (2012a) Who is in charge of Science: men view “Time” as more fixed, “Reality” as less real, and “Order” as less ordered. Cognitive Systems Research, 15-16, 50-56. doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2011.07.001.
Trofimova, I. (2012b) Understanding misunderstanding: a study of sex differences in meaning attribution. Psychological Research, 77(6), 748-760, DOI: 10.1007/s00426-012-0462-8
Trofimova, I. (2013) A study of the dynamics of sex differences in adulthood. International Journal of Psychology. 48 (6), 1230-1236. DOI: 10.1080/00207594.2012.756981
Trofimova, I. (2014) Observer bias: how temperament matters in semantic perception of lexical material. PLoS ONE, 9(1): e85677. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085677
Trofimova, I. (2015) Do psychological sex differences reflect evolutionary bi-sexual partitioning? American Journal of Psychology, 128(4), 485–514 DOI: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.128.4.0485, PMID: 26721176
Trofimova, I. & Christiansen, J. (2016) Coupling of temperament traits with mental illness in four age groups. Psychological Reports, 118, 2, 387-412, PMID: 27154370, DOI 10.1177/0033294116639430
Trofimova, I. (2016). The interlocking between functional aspects of activities and a neurochemical model of adult temperament. In: Arnold, M. C (Ed.) Temperaments: Individual Differences, Social and Environmental Influences and Impact on Quality of Life. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., NY, p. 77-147
Trofimova, I. & Robbins, T.W. (2016) Temperament and arousal systems: a new synthesis of differential psychology and functional neurochemistry. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 64, 382–402. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.008 Pubmed: 26969100
Trofimova, I. & Sulis, W. (2016a). Benefits of distinguishing between physical and social-verbal aspects of behaviour: an example of generalized anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:338. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00338
Trofimova, I. & Sulis, W. (2016b). A study of the coupling of FET temperament traits with Major Depression. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 1848. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01848.
Trofimova I. (2017) Functional constructivism: in search of formal descriptors. Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology, 21/4, 441-474. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32098.43205
Trofimova, I. (2018). Functionality vs dimensionality in psychological taxonomies, and a puzzle of emotional valence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biology, 383 (1744), doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0167.
Trofimova, I., Robbins, T., Sulis, W., Uher, J. (2018) Taxonomies of psychological individual differences: biological perspectives on millennia-long challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biology. 383 (1744) doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0152