The Editors at Communications Psychology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions on the topic of personality development. This curated Collection will bring together ...

People love taking personality tests, but are personality types real? Maybe, and maybe not. Personality development is complicated, and most healthy personality types are not so easily defined. Your ...

A new study from Warwick, Bielefeld University and University of Greifswald has analyzed data from 1,103 participants in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the UK Household Longitudinal Study ...

An individual’s genetics and their environment both shape their personality. However, opinions differ on the degree to which each of these factors influences personality, and how they contribute to ...

There is a great deal of debate on the subject of "personality" and particularly, whether or not it is permanent and fixed or whether it can and does change. Some psychologists believe personality is ...

Affectionate mothering in childhood may have a lasting impact on important personality traits, potentially influencing life outcomes such as educational achievement, economic success, and health and ...

Human personality traits are known to systematically differ across geographical regions around the world. Although there are all sorts of reasons why this might be, a new study found that regional ...