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 ...

Why do some people do more for the community than others? A new study from the University of Zurich, available on the PsyArXiv preprint server, now shows that personality traits such as extraversion ...

When researchers ask people if they’ve changed in the past 10 years, they say they’ve changed a lot. However, their family ...

Wouldn’t it be great if we were able to positively embrace all personality traits? Well, we can if we understand how to best leverage some of what I call the darker sides of personality traits. Here’s ...

A recent study published in Current Psychology indicates that individuals with antagonistic personality traits tend to ...

Associations of personality traits with physical activity and sedentary behavior were observed in a study conducted at the Gerontology Research Center and the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at ...

Have you ever taken a personality test? If you’re like me, you’ve consulted BuzzFeed and you know exactly which Taylor Swift song “perfectly matches your vibe.” It might be obvious that internet ...

Personality types A, B, C, and D group people according to key traits. However, it is not an evidence-based personality model. Type A includes ambition, impatience, and competitiveness, while Type B ...

People’s willingness to do volunteer work or give to charity differs greatly. Besides financial and social incentives, individual differences in people’s personality can explain why some of us are ...