For years, Olga Khazan, a Virginia-based staff writer at The Atlantic, knew she had a big problem: she hated much of her own personality. "I was constantly worried about everything," she said. "Just ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, John M. Oldham, MD, MS, one of psychiatry's most influential architects of personality disorder theory, traces his ...

It is usually easy for us to live our lives when things are calm and easy. But how do we handle life when the going gets tough? For this, we have a variety of capacities that help us regulate our self ...

In the modern workplace, technical skills and experience can take you far—but self-awareness and understanding others can take you further. That’s the premise of Personality Intelligence: Master the ...

The Enneagram is a tool that defines nine personality types. Many individuals use it in various theoretical settings. The Enneagram of Personality Types is a modern tool that is based on various ...

As my Inc.com colleague Justin Bariso has explained, ask psychologists about how to think about personality and they’ll all point you to “the Big 5.” Understanding how introverted, open, or neurotic ...

As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building blocks of personality. My experiments involved measuring how my tiny subjects ...