You enjoy parties with friends while also needing quiet moments to recharge: this apparent contradiction actually corresponds ...

You click on a fun internet quiz: Are You an Introvert or an Extrovert? This should be easy, you think. But then, the questions feel, well, off. Asked to choose between spending your weekend hopping ...

Where do you get your energy? I sat across from a new coaching client, Jessica, waiting patiently for her reply. She gazed back, puzzled, as if I had asked her what it felt like to walk across a ...

A stereotypical extrovert is loud, sociable, and the life of the party. In reality, extroversion is nothing to do with confidence. Rather, it's about seeking out pressure because you need it to ...

Sometimes, I feel like going out for drinks with friends after work. Other times, I feel like doing nothing but going home and watching Netflix or reading a book. If you're like me, you may be an ...

The body of research connecting extroversion and happiness kinda bums me out. One study out of Wake Forest University even tells us that people are happier, including introverts, when we act like ...

Purpose We evaluated personality dimensions captured by an abbreviated 8-item questionnaire and examined associations of the personality traits with health behaviours and subjective well-being (SWB) ...

A team of psychologists led by Jason Huang of Michigan State University believes they have identified a new unit of personality, something they refer to as the “other-contingent extravert.” This is ...

Recently, Yang et al. 43 showed (i) that 45% of the phenotypic variance (roughly half of the heritability) of human height can be explained by considering all single-nucleotide polymorphism SNPs ...

Emeroy Bernardo enjoys spending time alone, meditating, exercising and working. When he goes out for dinner or drinks with friends, he sometimes quietly observes people’s facial expressions and body ...