From the American Psychological Association press release: A worldwide survey conducted during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic found that people with certain common personality traits were less likely to shelter at home when…
From the University of California – Davis press release: In the first research of its kind, a new University of California, Davis, study suggests that for the most part, people formulate goals consistent with their…
From the Michigan State University press release: When people say that they want to change things about their personalities, they might not know about the inadvertent consequences these changes could bring. In fact, changes in…
From the University of Jyväskylä press release: Personality traits help to understand why some people are physically active and others are not. A new study from the Gerontology Research Center and the Faculty of Sport…
From the University of Bath press release: Positive thinking has long been extolled as the route to happiness, but it might be time to ditch the self-help books after a new study shows that realists…
From the Penn State press release: People who seek novel and powerful sensations and are more prone to taking risks — and who perceive bitter tastes more intensely — are more likely to prefer bitter,…
From the Arizona State University press release: For some children, screen time before bed translates to less sleep. According to a study from the Arizona State University Department of Psychology, media use in the hour…
From the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology press release: Following the fast spread of COVID-19 across Europe and North America in March 2020, many people began stockpiling commodities including toilet paper. Some companies reported…
From the Queen Mary University of London press release: Some people are more sensitive than others — and around half of these differences can be attributed to our genes, new research has found. The study,…
From the Wiley press release: A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society examined five personality traits — neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness — and their links to pre-dementia conditions called motoric cognitive…