Category: Personality
How Personality Variability Impacts Your Work Performance
Our personality impacts our lives in many ways. How agreeable we are influences our relationship satisfaction; how extraverted we are relates to our career success; […]
Why Morbid Curiosity May Fuel Belief in Conspiracy Theories
Source: Clker-Free/Pixaby Have you ever felt a powerful urge to look at something terrifying, disgusting, or gruesome? Maybe you have watched a horror movie, read […]
Tailgating and 16 Other Signs of Competitive Drivers
As many as 45% of all vehicle crashes might be related to tailgating, which is when one person drives too closely to the car in […]
The Conundrum of Childish Adults
During last year’s defamation trial between actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, audio was played of an incident during which, having admittedly struck him, Heard […]
Why Small Talk, With Anyone, Tends to Be So Rewarding
Source: Darya Sannikova/Pexels I want to be a warm and friendly person.But I don’t know how to do it. —David Berman Several years ago, I […]
The 5 Systems of Character Adaptation
Your character adaptations are the ways you have learned to respond and adapt to the environment, given your genetic predispositions, your life history and events, […]
The 7 Clear Signs of “Hubris Syndrome”
People with the Dark Triad personality, who manipulate anyone and everyone to get their way, can easily be regarded as the most toxic of individuals. […]
3 Ways to Spot the Everyday Sadist
Have you ever been in a conversation about a case in the news where someone was attacked, injured, or killed, where one person in the […]
Connecting With Others Helps Them and Enhances Self-Knowledge
A review of How To Know A Person: The Art Of Seeing Others Deeply And Being Deeply Seen. By David Brooks. Random House. 306 pp. […]
Analyzing Personality in “The Fall of the House of Usher”
In the haunting reimagination of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which recently premiered on Netflix, the enigmatic children of Roderick […]