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The right way to use personality tests is like broken rulers.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (622+ words) Posted January 31, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Personality assessments have become woven into the fabric of modern organizational life to the point that there's no avoiding them. What tends to get lost in this routine is that much of the personality…...
What Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Is'and What It Isn't
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (665+ words) Posted August 26, 2025 | Reviewed by Devon Frye Out-of-control sexual behaviors have existed throughout history, yet their official recognition only came much later. Some of the old terms you might have heard include satyriasis, nymphomania, and Don Juanism. In modern medicine, out-of-control…...
The Birth Order Hoax | Psychology Today South Africa
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (738+ words) Posted January 12, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye We've all heard it before: The oldest child is responsible and driven, the middle one is the peacekeeper, and the youngest is the fun-loving rebel. It sounds neat, maybe even a little true when…...
Compulsive Sexual Behavior and Paraphilias
1+ week, 4+ day ago (259+ words) Posted April 8, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills This post was written by L'na Nagy, Ph. D. , researcher at the School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, and Institute of Psychology, ELTE E'tv's Lor'nd University, Budapest, Hungary, sexual health researcher, and…...
Why Grandiose Narcissists Rarely Listen or Learn
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (383+ words) Posted December 30, 2025 | Reviewed by Ekua Hagan Mental health professionals and researchers generally consider narcissists to fall into one of two types'vulnerable narcissists or grandiose narcissists'although some have qualities of both. According to researchers (Weinberg et al, 2022): Grandiose narcissists tend to…...
How to use personality test results as a starting point'not a ceiling.
4+ week, 22+ hour ago (564+ words) Posted March 22, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader You've probably taken a personality test at some point in your life. Maybe it was a workplace assessment, an online quiz, or a well-known framework like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The results often feel…...
Researchers don't see personality as fixed.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (733+ words) Posted March 7, 2026 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma For the last century, personality has been treated as set in stone. We viewed our traits as our underlying essence, shaping how we think about the world and how we behave. And we believed…...
Calm, conflict-avoiding Type Cs may be carrying more than anyone recognizes.
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (556+ words) When we think of personality types, two popular (although not clinical) models come to mind: Type A and Type B. Type A is generally perceived as the overachiever who's ambitious and competitive and. .. Calm, conflict-avoiding Type Cs may be carrying more…...
Why the issue may not be your personality'but the fit.
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (498+ words) Posted March 16, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader One of the most common misconceptions about personality is that certain traits are universally better than others. We assume that being even-keeled is better than being emotionally sensitive, or that being conscientious is always…...
A new twist on the classic nature-nurture debate in personality change.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (14+ words) Psychology Today...
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