Data from: Investigating the association between social interactions and personality states dynamics

The recent personality psychology literature has coined the name of
personality states to refer to states having the same behavioural,
affective and cognitive content (described by adjectives) as the
corresponding trait, but for a shorter duration. The variability in
personality states may be the reaction to specific characteristics of
situations. The aim of our study is to investigate whether specific
situational factors, that is, different configurations of face-to-face
interactions, are predictors of variability of personality states in a
work environment. The obtained results provide evidence that within-person
variability in personality is associated with variation in face-to-face
interactions. Interestingly, the effects differ by type and level of the
personality states: adaptation effects for Agreeableness and Emotional
Stability, whereby the personality states of an individual trigger similar
states in other people interacting with them and complementarity effects
for Openness to Experience, whereby the personality states of an
individual trigger opposite states in other people interacting with them.
Overall, these findings encourage further research to characterize
face-to-face and social interactions in terms of their relevance to
personality states.