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In a recent study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the United States of America conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on personality traits to identify ...

People formulate goals consistent with their personality traits, researchers suggest. (Getty Images) In the first research of its kind, a new University of California, Davis, study suggests that for ...

The Greek physician Hippocrates argued that four bodily “humors” shaped human behavior, which, in turn, resulted in four fundamental personality types. Today, people put more faith in Myers-Briggs ...

There’s been a lot of talk about narcissism in recent years—most people know at least one person with the trait or the disorder—but there are other personality traits that are equally intriguing. And ...

Extraversion: People with high extraversion scores are more social, and people with low extraversion scores are more ...

New research utilizing a massive dataset derived from the Harry Potter fandom suggests that specific fictional personality ...

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 ...

A study has found that men who have a larger range of personality traits are more likely to have sex more often than those who don’t, with the traits also having an impact on the likelihood of having ...