Personality

Want To Be Happier? You May Need To Move

msn.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living


New research suggests U.S. states with wealthier, better educated and more tolerant residents are also happier on average....

There is a Beauty Within You #11: Are You More Than Culture Can Speak

Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living


Bob Lingvall

Self-awareness is a very mysterious phenomenon. How is it that matter can be self-aware? Is matter somehow creating you and me?

What of "What You Are" Is No Longer You?

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living


Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.

When I am in the grip of an old pattern I don't experience it as alien to me but rather as exactly how I need to be at that moment. So how do I "set my jailer free" if I don't experience being in jail?

There Is a Beauty Within You #10: When Love and Awareness Meet

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living


Bob Lingvall

Immersed in the most personal of personal loves, we are a point of awareness in an ocean of compassionate love; a butterfly on the back of a whale preparing to dive.

There Is A Beauty Within You #9: Mom Became Like The Sweetness Of The Chocolates

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living


Bob Lingvall

The death of a loved one, and in a special way a parent, opens up space for self-reflection. Death asks, "Are you living a good life?" Dementia tries to help us answer.

Can We Change Our Personality?

Todd Kashdan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living


Todd Kashdan

Researchers have found that we define a stranger's personality after a mere 10 seconds. With this thin slice of information, we start to think and act differently toward them.

Romantic Relationships Are Hotbeds for Serious Lies

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living


Bella DePaulo

The BIG lies, the ones we consider most serious, are usually told by and to the people with whom we are most intimate.

How Does Your Body Language Reflect Your Personality Type?

BBC NEWS | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living


Dr Glenn Wilson, a consultant psychologist, observed the body language of 500 drinkers and divided them into eight personality types. These were the ...

What's Your Number? Understanding Your Enneagram Type

Karen Leland | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living


Karen Leland

Fifteen or so years ago, I sat through a dinner party where the discussion at the table went something like this... "Well, as a three, I felt like I...

The Long Term Benefits Of Self Discipline

newyorker.com | Jonah Lehrer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living


According to Walter Mischel, this view of will power also helps explain why the marshmallow task is such a powerfully predictive test. "If you can dea...

Why Do CEOs Do Such Stupid Things? It's Their Nature

Joel Weinberger | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business


Joel Weinberger

How do we explain this behavior? Stupidity? Greed? Arrogance? To a degree, all of the above. But there is more going on and that more is part of human psychology.

Does Your Career Fit Your Personality?

CNN.com | Rachel Zupek | Posted 04.11.2009 | Living


Here we have six personality groups which seem to encompass the majority of people. From there, we've listed what jobs might be suited to best fit you...

Can Blood Type Determine Your Personality?

divinecaroline.com | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living


I have a rare blood type--AB , which only 4 percent of the U.S. has--and secretly, I always thought it made me kind of special, even though I had no b...

What Your Dog Says About You

forbes.com | Brian Wingfield | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living


You can pick up after your pooch and make sure he plays nice, but it's your dog's breed that truly speaks volumes about what kind of owner you are. ...

A Moose Killing, Oil Drilling Hockey Mom...Just Like Me?

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics


Peter A. Ubel

Ultimately sports fans don't seem to root for athletes as much as they support whoever is wearing the right color jersey. In much the same way, the general public supports the policies of the people in their parties.

Warning: Faking It May Cause Embarrassing Personal Leakage

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 09.20.2008 | Living


Lisa Earle McLeod

Don't you just hate it when the real you leaks out? Like that time when, after one too many sloe gin fizzes, you finally told your sister-in-law wh...

What Your Choice Of Halloween Candy Says About You

Washington Post | Joe Heim | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Halloween looms and with it the annual candy-buying frenzy. While dieters stock up on candy they don't like so they won't be tempted by leftovers, the...