Topic
Personality research, explained
13 open-access personality studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- How Different Faces of Narcissism Predict Our Social Lives
Narcissistic rivalry links grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, representing their shared core of self-importance and poor self-regulation.
- Are people who experience ASMR different in personality?
People who experience ASMR score higher on openness and neuroticism, but lower on extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness compared to those who do not.
- How psychopathic traits relate to everyday life
People with higher levels of positive psychopathic traits, such as boldness and social influence, are more likely to hold leadership roles and work in high-risk professions.
- Do character strengths help students do well at school?
Students who described themselves as more persevering, prudent and hopeful behaved better in class according to teachers, and that better classroom behaviour partly accounted for their higher achievement.
- What emotional deficits drive Machiavellian personalities?
Machiavellian personality traits are closely linked to emotional difficulties, specifically a struggle to experience pleasure and trouble describing one's own feelings.
- Do psychedelic trips change personality and feeling connected?
Four weeks after a self-chosen psychedelic experience, people described themselves as less anxious and less critical or quarrelsome and felt somewhat more socially connected, though with no control group these small changes cannot be firmly attributed to the drug.
- Which kids end up taking music lessons, and why?
How long young children had taken music lessons was best predicted by how open to new experiences their parents were, not mainly by the child's intelligence.
- Do grit and honesty change how job stress leads to bad behaviour at work?
Workers facing more job demands felt more exhausted and, through that exhaustion, reported more counterproductive behaviour at work; grit weakened the step from exhaustion to bad behaviour, while low honesty-humility unexpectedly weakened the step from demands to exhaustion.
- Is Borderline Personality Disorder Linked to a Fast-Paced Life Strategy?
Women with Borderline Personality Disorder show psychological and physical signs of a fast-paced life strategy, which is statistically explained by childhood trauma.
- Do emotional ups and downs hurt learning a hard new skill?
Students whose emotions swung more while learning a fast video game kept up less effort over time and performed worse, especially after the game suddenly got harder.
- Do different kinds of narcissists react differently to rejection?
People high in vulnerable narcissism felt more negative after being socially excluded, whereas people high in grandiose narcissism instead lost positive feelings without reporting more negative ones.
- How Personality Traits Link to Voluntary Sleep Loss in Students
Students driven by fun often choose to stay awake for socializing, while anxiety-prone students sacrifice sleep to study, though both suffer from poor sleep quality.
- Does acting open-minded make you more creative or happier?
Doing a week of open-minded writing and curiosity tasks raised positive mood but did not make students more creative, more authentic, or more growth-oriented.