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·September 21, 2017·4 min read

Personality Changes Don’t Precede Clinical Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease

Despite popular belief, researchers have found no evidence that personality changes appear prior to the onset of dementia. The findings are published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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·May 15, 2017·4 min read

Personality May Change When You Drink, But Less Than You Think

While most people tend to report substantive personality changes when they drink, other people see less drastic changes in their personalities between when they are sober and when they are drunk, a new study reports.

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·May 5, 2017·1 min read

Taking Folic Acid During Pregnancy Has Positive Effect on Child’s Psychological Development

Summary: Children whose mothers took folic acid during pregnancy demonstrated higher levels of emotional intelligence and resilience later in childhood...

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·March 30, 2017·3 min read

Prudence, Impatience and Laziness: Are These Contagious Personality Traits?

According to new research, people unconsciously mimic others' prudent, lazy or impatient attitudes.

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·February 4, 2017·4 min read

Empathetic People Experience Dogs’ Expressions More Strongly

A new study reveals empathy affects perceptions of a dog's facial expressions.

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·February 4, 2017·1 min read

Personality Traits ‘Contagious’ Among Children

A new study suggests personality is shaped by environment, not just genes and that children may have a bigger influence on each other than we realize.

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·January 25, 2017·5 min read

Naughty or Nice? Personality Traits Linked to Differences in Brain Structure

Researchers report on how differences in cortical anatomy relates to each of the five factors of personality.

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·January 7, 2017·1 min read

You’ve Got Mail! Personality Differences in Email Use

Sending emails outside of work hours leads to added stress, researchers report.

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·January 6, 2017·4 min read

New Personality Model Sets Up How We See Ourselves, and How Others See Us

A new model for identifying personality traits contrasts how people see themselves against how others see them.

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·October 7, 2016·7 min read

Human Behavior Study Identifies Four Basic Personality Types

90 percent of the population can be classified into one of four main personality types, and of those, 30 percent fall under the envious personality type, a new study reports.