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The Questionable Compatibility of Introverts and Extroverts
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung popularized the terms introvert and extrovert in the 1900s; but a century later, his postulations about personality types have become so warped by popular culture that the reputations of introverts everywhere
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on language and counting, pain as social glue, perinatal conditions and gender nonconformity, constellations across cultures, generations and personality, attachment and hearing, app usage and identity, and sexism identification.
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Personality and Birth Cohort: Does the Decade Make a Difference?
The generation people are born in might predict their personality traits and how they change as they grow older, this research suggests.
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I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality
One morning last summer, I woke up and announced, to no one in particular: “I choose to be happy today!” Next I journaled about the things I was grateful for and tried to think more
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Do Callous Personalities Win In Business? New Research Suggests Not
A new article published in the academic journal Personality and Individuals Differences casts doubt on a widely held assumption in the professional world — that cold and unsympathetic individuals are more likely to rise to the top of the
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on youth irritability, visualizing data, narcissism, cultural adaptations and responses to collective threat, experiments in economics, inhibitory control in memory, and the development of communication.
