A set of four studies of German-speaking adults found that individuals with a more pronounced Dark Core of personality tended to hold more pessimistic worldviews. In other words, these individuals ...

Personality isn’t as stable as we originally thought. Modern research shows traits are patterns that evolve when you ...

A few years ago I took one of those free personality assessments online, mostly out of boredom, and ended up sitting with the results for an embarrassingly long time. Not because the findings were ...

When choosing an education or job, your choice is not only based on skills and opportunities. Your personality plays a notable role, too—and according to new research, certain traits can cause you to ...

A new longitudinal study of university students found that having non-controlling, supportive relationships is associated ...

Watching the news constantly can make people strain their mental health, but people who can’t stop themselves from watching ...

Psychologists have been studying personality for a very long time. Thinking about personality as a collection of traits goes all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome, and trait theorists such as ...

People who get irritated by the smallest things often aren't necessarily being moody; they usually have highly intelligent personality traits behind all that frustration. Their irritation can actually ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New research suggests that while having a tattoo is associated with slightly higher levels of impulsivity, the extent of tattoo coverage may reveal subtle links with antagonistic ...