Posts tagged with 'extroversion'
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 …
Who can you trust ... and do they have to be boring?
10th June 2011
May's edition of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology contains three articles on trust that got me thinking a bit. It's been said that the qualities that attract you to a potential partner (or friend) may well end up being the very issues that become most problematic in the …
Recent research: six studies on emotional & relationship ‘intelligence’ – placebo, warmth, mindfulness, & emotions
22nd October 2009
Here are half a dozen research papers that have recently interested me in the broad areas of emotional and relationship "intelligence" (all details & abstracts to these studies are given further down this blog posting). Kelley et al report on "Patient and practitioner influences on the placebo effect" which in …
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 …
Recent research: a mixed bag of studies on personality, paranoia, burnout, somatization, and relationships
9th October 2008
This week's recent research post is a mixed bag of six studies covering the physiological & psychological changes triggered by being separated from one's partner, why similar levels of anxiety & interpersonal sensitivity can lead to social anxiety in some individuals and paranoia in others, how difficulty identifying feelings is …