How people behave in one situation often tells us how they will act in others. A shy introvert in one place, for example, isn't likely to be the gregarious life of the party in another. How people ...

Genetic factors account for much of the variation in personality traits across the lifespan. Shared upbringing plays a ...

From toe length to handwriting and sleeping position, there have been countless studies linking various features with specific personality traits. But these are of course just associations between ...

One of the oddest things to me about neuroscience is the infrequency with which neuroscientists criticize one another. The outrage that followed the 2009 publication of Vul et al. "Puzzlingly high ...

Our personality may be shaped by how our brain works, but in fact the shape of our brain can itself provide surprising clues about how we behave - and our risk of developing mental health disorders - ...

The Preschool Personality Questionnaire (PSPQ) is 1 of a series of questionnaires designed to reveal personality structure at 5 age levels. Both "parcel" and "item" factoring have been utilized for ...

For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a group of five personality traits –– or slight variations of these five –– are a universal feature of human psychology. However, a study by ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Having an unusual personality structure could be the secret to making other people laugh, scientists said on Thursday after research showed that comedians have high levels of ...