People with higher levels of socially aversive personality traits tend to gossip more often than others, though their ...

Psychologists have been studying personality for a very long time. Thinking about personality as a collection of traits goes all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome, and trait theorists such as ...

Why do some people do more for the community than others? A new study from the University of Zurich, available on the PsyArXiv preprint server, now shows that personality traits such as extraversion ...

While fast walkers and slow walkers may irritate each other while trying to get from Point A to Point B, their differences go ...

Curiosity may be the key to being fully present. Learn how this personality trait keeps attention in the moment and how to build it, according to research.

A huge analysis probes the genetics of personality, finding that the trait is much less straightforward than physical attributes like eye color.

Associations of personality traits with physical activity and sedentary behavior were observed in a study conducted at the Gerontology Research Center and the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at ...

A new study finds that the personality characteristics that get you promoted to a leader aren’t necessarily the qualities ...

A psychiatrist explained why people with higher levels of neuroticism may be more likely to spend longer in hospital.

People’s willingness to do volunteer work or give to charity differs greatly. Besides financial and social incentives, individual differences in people’s personality can explain why some of us are ...