[Wherein our hero is AWOL, and you are stuck with me. Enjoy] Rift, your usual publisher is away having people talk about him in another language whilst he desperately tries to understand. Therefore today I will be posting about the simple topic of trust. So sit back, enjoy and trust that I will give you [...]... Campbell A. (2010) Oxytocin and human social behavior. Personality and social
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August 20, 2010
Determined to fail: free will and work success
If you want to predict how well someone might perform in a new job, you might want to enquire about their views on whether we are free to choose are own actions. A delightful study just published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found that belief in free will predicted job performance better [...]
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July 30, 2010
It takes one to know one?
Are most people nice, happy, trustworthy and interesting? Or do people usually strike you as cold, grumpy and not to be trusted? How you answer can tell us something about you. In a recent psychology article, Wood et al. explore "perceiver effects", or in other words how your own personality affects your perception of others.They show that our personality affects perceptions of others with respec
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July 12, 2010
The links between bloggers' personalities and their use of words
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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June 9, 2010
Personality predicts political preferences
There is a strong relationship between a voter's politics and his personality, according to new research.
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May 26, 2010
Shoplifting linked to unpleasant personality
Psychologists have identified dimensions of personality seen in persons prone to shoplifting. Three characteristics in his study stood out: Being male; unpleasant and antisocial; and disorganized and unreliable.
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May 25, 2010
What might have been
Can dreaming up alternatives to what actually happened ever be anything more than a waste of time and effort?... Roese, N. (1997) Counterfactual thinking. Psychological Bulletin, 121(1), 133-148. DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.121.1.133 Counterfactual thinking. Epstude, K., & Roese, N. (2008) The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking. Personality and Social Psyc
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May 20, 2010
Do I still like MBTI? (Part 3)
Given the flaws and limitations of MBTI, is it possible to use it safely and effectively in career coaching or guidance? If you're careful, maybe.... Mischel, W., & Shoda, Y. (1998) RECONCILING PROCESSING DYNAMICS AND PERSONALITY DISPOSITIONS. Annual Review of Psychology, 49(1), 229-258. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.49.1.229 RECONCILING PROCESSING DYNAMICS AND PERSONALITY DI
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