I recently watched the Netflix documentary “Three Identical Strangers.” Without too much of a spoiler alert, triplets who were separated at birth come acros...

Walking is one of our most natural, daily actions. Now, a new study led by a Tohoku University researcher suggests that walkers use step synchronization as a...

Recent advances in neuroscience are unlocking how the major personality traits are linked to neural systems. One personality trait, Neuroticism, is linked t...

Traits are often much stronger than talents in predicting where people are most happiest. When developing peoples sense of their future aspirations it can b...

I have often said that what we really know about psychology is what we actually know about psychology students. These tend to be the subjects of research st...

People with psychopathic traits are predisposed toward antisocial behavior that can result in "unsuccessful" outcomes such as incarceration. However, many in...

How people behave in one situation often tells us how they will act in others. A shy introvert in one place, for example, isn't likely to be the gregarious l...

RMIT University researchers have used data from mobile phone accelerometers -- the tiny sensors tracking phone movement for step-counting and other apps -- t...

In lectures and on this blog I have raised the issue of identity being geographical for some. in the conceptual language of David Goodheart, the world appea...

Identity formation is a major developmental task in adolescence but continues throughout adulthood. Significant individual differences, however, emerge. The ...

Whilst it is a widely held view that depression is the result of life events alone, this model fails to recognize that these events are acting upon something...

More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as regular as tobacco use amo...

A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above with gender biases t...

A study just published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, analyzed the traits of 1.5 million using a unique logarithms. What did it find? There were basi...

A key feature of high flyers is the personality trait of conscientiousness. These individuals are focused, hard working, organised and invest themselves in t...

In lectures I often reference the differences in inherited personality traits have on human development. Agreeableness is an interesting trait and influence...

Is there such a thing as an evil personality type? This is a challenging question for many in the field. By and large, people who are drawn to the field of ...

It's often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we feel. Now, new research reveals that your eyes may also be ...

Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my perennial interest in the psychology of political thinking. Certainly, in these ever more turbulent po...

Purdue University researchers think the gap between a psychologists' diagnosis and a patient's self-evaluation might not be as extreme as previously perceive...