Psychologists tend to use five overarching traits to describe people's personalities: extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, neuroticism, and conscientiousness. New research published in ...

An individual’s genetics and their environment both shape their personality. However, opinions differ on the degree to which each of these factors influences personality, and how they contribute to ...

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 ...