This post is in response to What Is Your Theory of the Person? By Gregg Henriques Ph.D. Time is the soil from which personality grows. To grasp the essence of personality, we must delve into the ...

From Aristotle to Sigmund Freud and Abraham Maslow, countless theories and concepts for understanding personality have been proposed. Throughout history, these and other great minds sought to answer ...

In the days before psychology, philosophers and scholars frequently hypothesized about the various causes of people’s behavior. While we have modern science to debunk many of the pseudoscientific ...

Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) has emerged as a pivotal framework for understanding the neural mechanisms underlying personality. The theory posits that individual differences in sensitivity ...

Blood type personality tests became popular in Japan in the 1920s, but many people around the world and now interested in this possible objective way to look at their personality. Personality typing ...

Have you ever wondered how your personality is related to how you do in life? Estonian researchers have put together a large overview of personality profiles—a so-called "personality atlas" that helps ...

Some people believe personality is fixed, but more recent research suggests that personality may develop over time and that people’s personality traits can change. Personality types group people into ...