Posts tagged with 'agreeableness'
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (2nd post)
15th July 2015
I recently wrote the blog post "New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)" where I introduced two new research articles - Hudson and Fraley's "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change personality traits?" and Elliott et al's "Psychometrics …
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)
14th July 2015
Hudson and Fraley's great new article "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change their personality traits?" still just has "online first" status at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology so it hasn't even got to "hot off the press" yet. It describes such interesting findings. The abstract …
Encouraging recent research on social anxiety: being embarrassed can lead you to be judged more, not less, positively by others
24th December 2011
There is a steady river of emerging new research on social anxiety. So earlier this year there was the paper "Social phobia and subtypes in the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement: Prevalence, correlates, and comorbidity" with its finding that, in a representative sample of over 10,000 US adolescents aged 13 to …
Personality, extroversion & compassion 2
16th November 2008
Having written the first blog posting on Personality, extroversion & compassion yesterday, I realized I wanted to add one or two further comments. These comments are mainly about scores on the Big five aspects scales (BFAS) and about "personality" in general. I've also made these comments downloadable as a BFAS …
Personality, extroversion & compassion 1
15th November 2008
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama I have a lot of experience of interpersonal group work - both with participating in and running groups that provide a chance to learn more about ourselves and how we relate …