You can tell a person's personality from the words they use. Neurotics have a penchant for negative words; agreeable types for words pertaining to socialising; and so on. We know this from recordings of people's speech and from brief writing tasks. Now Tal Yarkoni has extended this line of research to the blogosphere by analysing the content of 694 blogs - containing an average of 115,000 words w
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June 22, 2010
Brain structure corresponds to personality
Personalities come in all kinds. Now psychological scientists have found that the size of different parts of people's brains correspond to their personalities.
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February 3, 2010
Why We Love Narcissists (At First)
Paradoxically we initially like narcissists more because of their exploitative, entitled behaviour-but it doesn't last long.Despite being self-absorbed, arrogant, entitled and exploitative, narcissists are also fascinating.And not just from a clinical perspective; the research finds that we are strangely drawn to their self-centred personalities, their dominance and their hostility, their sensiti
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September 8, 2009
City Folk, Mindfully Relating
By Jennifer Egert, Ph.D.Ironic how in the most populated city in the US, the ability to be isolated, unconnected and anonymous is unprecedented. We are constantly surrounded by people. Perhaps this is why we turn off, turn inward, shut out the millions of lives that are around us. In some ways, it is kind of necessary. How can you take in all the activity and personalities of everyone around you?
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May 27, 2009
Emotional Intelligence and Medical Specialty Choice
The relationships between doctor personalities and medical specialties continues to interest me since we regularly have to select excellent young physicians to become psychiatrists. The usual caricatures of different specialties just won’t suffice as in the differences between surgeons and internists. It’s fun to read so if anyone knows some about psychiatrists and others please [...]
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