5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Moving Abroad

Is moving abroad right for you, your personality, and your relationships? A psychologist with experience living abroad weighs in with tips.

Is moving abroad right for you, your personality, and your relationships? A psychologist with experience living abroad weighs in with tips.

Do Personality Trait Tests Predict What You’ll Do?

Good personality tests can predict average behavioral tendencies over time, but they cannot predict specific behaviors in specific situations.

Good personality tests can predict average behavioral tendencies over time, but they cannot predict specific behaviors in specific situations.

How Conversational Choices Can Boost or Kill Attraction

Hold off on money, sex, and personal problems for a while.

Hold off on money, sex, and personal problems for a while.

The Inner World of Art Collectors: A Personality Perspective

Art collecting is a multifaceted activity influenced by various personality traits and psychological motivations.

Art collecting is a multifaceted activity influenced by various personality traits and psychological motivations.

An Introvert Mom's Guide to Raising Extroverted Kids

Personal Perspective: As an introverted mother of extroverted children, finding the right balance between their social needs and conserving my energy isn't always easy.

Personal Perspective: As an introverted mother of extroverted children, finding the right balance between their social needs and conserving my energy isn't always easy.

Does Your Favorite Color Reveal Anything About You?

Are color-based personality tests a window to our soul—or just a colorful mirage? Unravel the truths and myths here.

Are color-based personality tests a window to our soul—or just a colorful mirage? Unravel the truths and myths here.

Which Personality Types Are the Best at Dealing With Stress?

People vary widely in how they react to stress. A recent meta-analysis found that stress is lower for those who score higher on these five personality traits.

People vary widely in how they react to stress. A recent meta-analysis found that stress is lower for those who score higher on these five personality traits.

What Are the Best Nationalities and Personalities for Detecting AI Text?

How is it possible to recognise machine-generated text, and which nationalities and personalities would be best at doing this?

How is it possible to recognise machine-generated text, and which nationalities and personalities would be best at doing this?

The Psychology of Happiness

Are you happy? Scientific understanding of why some people are happy, and others less so, has changed dramatically over the years.

Are you happy? Scientific understanding of why some people are happy, and others less so, has changed dramatically over the years.

Have I Lost My Talent for Conversation?

A Personal Perspective: I remain in my own mental pandemic mode much of the time. In theory, I love seeing people again. In practice, I struggle.

A Personal Perspective: I remain in my own mental pandemic mode much of the time. In theory, I love seeing people again. In practice, I struggle.

Online Dating Illusions: The Unspoken Dangers

Here is how to avoid missing those red flags from online abusers.

Here is how to avoid missing those red flags from online abusers.

I Miss Forced Extroversion

Working at home might be more convenient. But working with others could make us happier.

Working at home might be more convenient. But working with others could make us happier.

Planning Your Retirement? Balance Life on a Three-Legged Stool

The three-legged stool approach provides some structure around which a balanced retirement can be more comfortably built.

The three-legged stool approach provides some structure around which a balanced retirement can be more comfortably built.

The Dating Trend of 'Open Casting' Can Revive Your Love Life

Here’s why the trend of dating outside your "type" is catching on in a big way.

Here’s why the trend of dating outside your "type" is catching on in a big way.

Why We Are Lonely and What to Do About It

Our subsistence ancestors likely did not suffer from loneliness. So why has social disconnection become such a threat?

Our subsistence ancestors likely did not suffer from loneliness. So why has social disconnection become such a threat?

10 Unexpected Ways to Feel More Alive

Feeling burned out? Here are 10 research-based methods for boosting energy and vitality that you might not have considered.

Feeling burned out? Here are 10 research-based methods for boosting energy and vitality that you might not have considered.

What Does Your Selfie Reveal About You?

Other peoples’ assessments of the personality characteristics of selfie owners are generally inaccurate, and this is why.

Other peoples’ assessments of the personality characteristics of selfie owners are generally inaccurate, and this is why.

The Way You Use a Mouse Says a Lot About Your Personality

People are always looking for simple ways to peer into their personalities. A new study suggests that finding out what makes you tick might lie at your fingertips.

People are always looking for simple ways to peer into their personalities. A new study suggests that finding out what makes you tick might lie at your fingertips.

2 Tips to Help You Make Friends as an Adult

Making friends as an adult isn’t much different from when you were a kid. The only thing we need to add is intention.

Making friends as an adult isn’t much different from when you were a kid. The only thing we need to add is intention.

Effective Leaders Aren't Just the Extraverts Among Us

There's no one right way to blaze the path into leadership; both introverts and extraverts have a few secret advantages among successful leadership traits.

There's no one right way to blaze the path into leadership; both introverts and extraverts have a few secret advantages among successful leadership traits.

Why Introverts Excel at Building Professional Relationships

Are extroverts naturally better networkers? Or is there something they can learn from introverts about how to build professional relationships?

Are extroverts naturally better networkers? Or is there something they can learn from introverts about how to build professional relationships?

Why Relationships Are So Important for Neurotic People

Everyone needs social interaction, but a new study on personality and relationships shows the need is particularly strong for neurotic people as they seek to compensate for loneliness.

Everyone needs social interaction, but a new study on personality and relationships shows the need is particularly strong for neurotic people as they seek to compensate for loneliness.

How Useful Are Personality Tests?

How to evaluate popular personality tests. Are they any good? What do they tell you?

How to evaluate popular personality tests. Are they any good? What do they tell you?

10 Small Things That Bring Introverts Joy

Many introverted people struggle to navigate a world made for people who are more extroverted. This can be exhausting in certain situations.

Many introverted people struggle to navigate a world made for people who are more extroverted. This can be exhausting in certain situations.

3 Keys to Deeper, More Meaningful Conversations

You don’t necessarily need the gift of gab to be a great conversationalist.

You don’t necessarily need the gift of gab to be a great conversationalist.

The Benefits of Being "Boring"

Stereotyping quiet people inclined to privacy as boring may reflect a push in American and Western cultures toward extroversion to the point of psychological exhibitionism.

Stereotyping quiet people inclined to privacy as boring may reflect a push in American and Western cultures toward extroversion to the point of psychological exhibitionism.

6 Easy Ways to Avoid Being Awkward at Networking Events

Do networking events make you want to hide? Some prep work can make you feel less awkward.

Do networking events make you want to hide? Some prep work can make you feel less awkward.

Does Being Funny Online Make You More Attractive?

Do you know how to make yourself more attractive when messaging? It may not be what you think.

Do you know how to make yourself more attractive when messaging? It may not be what you think.

What the Pandemic Taught Us About Our Personalities

Compliance or resistance? How response to pandemic protocols revealed the personality behind the persona.

Compliance or resistance? How response to pandemic protocols revealed the personality behind the persona.

Two Personality Traits Predict Future Leaders

A recent study suggests that leaders-to-be differ from non-leaders even before being appointed, but that they also change as they prepare for the position and during their career.

A recent study suggests that leaders-to-be differ from non-leaders even before being appointed, but that they also change as they prepare for the position and during their career.