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Everyday Sadists Take Pleasure In Others’ Pain
People who score high on a measure of sadism seem to derive pleasure from behaviors that hurt others, and are even willing to expend extra effort to make someone else suffer, a study shows.
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Increased Meta-Perceptions of Agreeableness and Extraversion Predict Partner Satisfaction
Meta-perceptions are defined as judgments made by the self about what others think about the self. There are certain areas of personality research that may benefit from the use of meta-perceptions in addition to self- or
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How Can Identical Twins Turn Out So Different?
NPR: A study of genetically identical mice is providing some hints about humans. How can one identical twin be a wallflower while the other is the life of the party? The study of 40 young
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Joshua Jackson
Washington University in St. Louis http://pages.wustl.edu/personality What does your research focus on? My research is in the field of personality development. In general, I am interested in examining how personality changes across the lifespan and
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Mindfulness Helps Us Understand Our True Personalities, Study Says
The Huffington Post: It’s easy to have blind spots when examining our own selves and personalities. After all, it’s incredibly difficult to judge ourselves in an objective manner. But a new study suggests the best
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Know Thyself: How Mindfulness Can Improve Self-Knowledge
Mindfulness — paying attention to one’s current experience in a non-judgmental way — might help us to learn more about our own personalities, according to a new article published in the March 2013 issue of Perspectives