Category: Studies

  • Generation X, Y, Z

    A look at difficulties assessing personality differences between generations. Generation Y’s collective personality, if such a thing exists, is not likely to be much different from other generations’. Still, small differences may matter, and there is some agreement in findings from psychologists on both sides of this debate. In his own research, Dr. Terracciano has found…

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  • Ovulation, Personality, and Perception

    Three from PsychCentral: Racier Clothing Choices for Ovulating Women Adult Behavior Follows Childhood Personality Brain Activity Influenced by Perceptions and Attitude

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  • Animal Emotion

    ScienceDaily: Emotions help animals to make choices Happy? Angry? Anxious? How can we measure animal emotions? To understand how animals experience the world and how they should be treated, people need to better understand their emotional lives. A new review of animal emotion suggests that, as in humans, emotions may tell animals about how dangerous or…

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  • Rethinking Cravings

    PsychCentral:  Train Brain To Reduce Cravings. Smokers who are taught cognitive strategies, such as thinking about the long-term consequences of smoking, show increased activity in the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with cognitive control and rational thought.

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  • Judgment

    ScienceDaily:  What You Say About Others Says a Lot About You, Research Shows This research suggests that when you ask someone to rate the personality of a particular coworker or acquaintance, you may learn as much about the rater providing the personality description as the person they are describing.

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