Abstract
Côté and Moskowitz model dynamic covariation — how neuroticism, extraversion, and agreeableness predict how interpersonal behaviour and affect move together across moments.
Côté, S., & Moskowitz, D. S. (1998). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(4), 1032–1046. DOI
Key findings
- Trait-affect coupling — Traits forecast how behaviour and mood co-move in social episodes, not only average mood.
- Extraversion warmth — Extraversion predicts warmer, more assertive interpersonal strokes alongside affect.
- Agreeableness niceness — Agreeableness ties to compliant, pleasing behaviour-affect patterns.
- Neuroticism volatility — Neuroticism amplifies negative affect covariation with interpersonal stress.
Limits
Correlational diary-style evidence — traits are population patterns, not individual fate.
Application
When people-pleasing drains you — agreeableness may co-vary with affect in ways that reward compliance over honesty. See People-pleasing.