Psychologists sometimes joke that the majority of their studies are conducted on “Weird” people. By Weird, they mean individuals who live in western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic ...

As it turns out, personality type, not relationship status, determines a person’s happiness. A new study conducted is shaking up common misconceptions when it comes to single people, who are often ...

Scientists at the University of Turin and the University of Manchester say they have developed a new method to analyze personality differences between the sexes, which suggests the differences are ...

Personality and individual differences encompass the enduring psychological characteristics that distinguish people from one another and predict patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour. These ...

Dimensional models of personality disorders are increasingly popular, but do they obscure real clinical syndromes?