We often treat personality as if it’s carved in stone—unchanging and inherited. But a growing body of research suggests that your personality is more like clay: shaped by experience, environment, and ...

A comprehensive psychological guide to eight common behavioral traits that can make a person un-fun to be around. This ...

Are you worried that if your borderline mate enters therapy, they will stop loving you? The good news is that they are likely ...

People love taking personality tests, but are personality types real? Maybe, and maybe not. Personality development is complicated, and most healthy personality types are not so easily defined. Your ...

The MBTI is based on Carl Jung’s Theory of Psychological Types and categorizes people into 16 distinct personality types, each represented by a four-letter code. These codes are combinations of traits ...

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Personality Development in Childhood and Adolescence (July 2005), pp. 315-334 (20 pages) While there is a general consensus that temperament ...

When we are growing up we are often asked what it is we want to be as an adult. Astronaut, athlete, pop star, doctor. Of course, we are in the midst of this period of tumultuous change when the very ...