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PersonalityJun 11, 2020
Is Your Personality Permanent? New Research Says ‘No.’
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I caught up this week with a longtime friend, Dr. Benjamin Hardy ...
PersonalityNov 30, 2019
Personality and Emotion Research Lab
Matthew is a sixth year student, completing the Ph.D. program in the General-Clinical stream. He completed his honours thesis, in ...
PersonalitySep 23, 2019
Is It Possible to Change Your Personality?
If you've ever thought about how you might improve your personality, you're not alone. Research suggests that all of us, to a ...
PersonalityJul 30, 2019
Understanding Sibling Personalities
Many parents assume that providing the same home environment for each of their children, will yield “similar” children, but ...
PersonalitySep 17, 2018
Schizoid Personality Disorder
is a type of eccentric personality disorder. A person with this disorder behaves differently from
PersonalityApr 11, 2018
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a condition in which an individual has two or more distinct personality states or identities.
PersonalityOct 23, 2016
Psychopathy: A Clinical Diagnosis
Psychopathy is an antisocial personality disorder that is highly correlated with crime and violence. The concept of psychopathy ...
PersonalityOct 27, 2014
Broader horizons for animal personality research
Personality is at the forefront of current behavioral ecological research. Most research concerns boldness, aggressiveness ...
PersonalitySep 28, 2014
Personality over a lifetime
Seeing a middle-aged man in a conservative business suit sitting next to a chap with blue hair and a silver ring through his nose ...
PersonalityApr 14, 2014
How Many Personality Traits Are There?
Exactly how many personality traits are there? Estimates vary widely, with figures ranging from over 4,000 suggested by Gordon ...
PersonalityApr 30, 2013
China's 1-Child Policy Affects Personality
In 1979 China instituted the one-child policy, which limited every family to just one offspring in a controversial attempt to ...
PersonalityAug 15, 2012
Psychological therapies for borderline personality disorder
People with borderline personality disorder often have difficulties controlling their emotions and impulses, and find it hard to ...
PersonalityJan 14, 2012
Sexual Personality Highlights of 2011
The year 2011 produced a fascinating array of sexual personality science. Here are 10 important findings—mostly from social psychology—that helped illuminate our understanding of how and why people ...
PersonalityApr 9, 2011
Psychopathy: A Rorschach test for psychologists?
What do these personality traits have in common? If you are high on any or all of them, you may be less likely to rate other ...
PersonalityJul 4, 2006
What Are Cardinal Traits of Personality?
Cardinal traits of personality are rare, defining attributes so dominant that they overshadow all aspects of an individual's ...