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 ...

It has long been believed that people can’t change their personalities, which are largely stable and inherited. But a review of recent research in personality science points to the possibility that ...

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Alexander Christensen's recent study probably won't rewrite 40 years of history in the field of psychology, but he hopes that his research team's quantitative approach to developing and evaluating ...

Want to have a magnetic personality? Science says you should stop focusing on specific behaviors and focus on your beliefs instead. This is an article about the science of why some people have ...

Personality Predictors of Holiday Spending," appears in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. "We've known for a while that personality is related to what we call 'broad outcomes:' ...

When I meet new people and tell them I was a researcher at eHarmony, it is usually followed by an array of questions, which I always love answering. Part of my responsibilities included developing new ...