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How Accurate Are Personality Tests?
If you’re looking for insight into the true you, there’s a buffet of personality questionnaires available. Some are silly—like the internet quiz that tells everyone who takes it that they are procrastinators at the core.
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Big Data Gives the “Big 5” Personality Traits a Makeover
From the ancient Greeks to Shakespeare to Hollywood, humans have attempted to understand their fellow man through labeling and categorization. There was Hippocrates’s blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile; the classic dramatic archetypes of hero
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Want to Seem More Likable? Try This
For many of us, meeting new people can be an anxiety-inducing affair. Am I talking too much? Was my handshake too weak? Did I make too much eye contact? Too little? Am I boring? Are
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Five myths about personality tests
In its earliest use in the 13th century, “personality” referred to the quality, character or fact of being human. By the 18th century, the word pointed to the traits that made a person a distinctive
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Researchers have identified a new personality type. Chances are you’ve had it
Whether it’s the ancient Greeks trying to divine one’s character from the stars, or modern surveys that purport to tell you what type of person you are, experts have struggled to come up with a
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Reminder: Claims about millennials, and every other generation, are BS
You’ve probably heard that millennials (many of whom, by the way, are entering their mid-thirties) are self-obsessed, or obsessed with others, or coddled and conceited, or idealistic and energetic. Forget about it. It’s all bullshit.
