personality (psychological)

News emanating from the White House is always more understandable once you accept that Trumpist policy is downstream of Trump's personality. The president's attack on his ... And, of course, his decision to promote and protect his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is purely psychological. Giving Kushner the ...

Our personalities are relatively consistent ways we think, act, and feel in response to our environment, and findings from a new study underscore the effects of our family experiences on our personalities and relationships. The study authors found that the quality of our relationships in our family of origin was ...

From the perspective of personality psychology, those of us who are like this are high on the trait of Neuroticism. The question is, does this make us more prone to procrastination? Past research has documented a relation between anxiety and procrastination, and a study we're conducting right now (link is ...

The personality traits that make up the Dark Triad become the core of the toxic personality, in Templer's view. These include the tendency to exploit others (Machiavellianism), to have little feeling or regard for their fellow human beings (psychopathy), and to seek, to an extreme degree, being the center of ...

Regional levels of fear associated with Trump and Brexit votes, psychology study shows ... played a heavy hand in both the 2016 Donald Trump and "Brexit" elections, changing the script on how personality shapes political behavior, according to an international psychological study on voting behavior.

Given that narcissism as a personality disorder is technically not highly prevalent, the attention it receives from both psychologists and from the public seems disproportionate compared to, for example, depression .... Personality and Social Psychology Review, 22(1), 3-31. doi:10.1177/1088868316685018.

These questions have been steeped in controversy for almost as long as psychology has existed. ... She proposes that our personalities develop around basic needs, and she begins by documenting the three basic psychological needs we all come with: the need to predict our world, the need to build ...

Forming a secure identity is one of the main psychological tasks of adolescence. During the turbulent teen years, you must come to grips with who you are, and project into the future as you think about your ideal career pursuits and commitments to an overall ideology that will guide your life.