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 recent years, dimensional models of personality disorder have become increasingly influential, particularly among trait psychologists and personality researchers. Two prominent examples are the ICD ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. What role does personality play in the bedroom? According to ...