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When the Listening/Talking Ratio is Out of Whack
If you find that you do most of the listening in your relationships, perhaps it's time to consider your role in the dynamic.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sophia Dembling Tags: Personality Relationships Social Life chatterboxes communication dynamics conversation drama expressing feelings intimacy listening sharing feelings talkative people talking talking too much Source Type: news

The Right Stuff
A recent study in Intelligence and a meta-analysis in Psychological Science have stirred up fresh debate about the relationship between practice and performance.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: a Guest Blogger Tags: Child Development Creativity Personality Sport and Competition Source Type: news

McConaughey’s and Harrelson’s Roles in "True Detective"
Marty and Rust work hard and bravely to catch murderers and predators. Both detectives are lonely, not good at relationships, and struggle with different kinds of inner demons... Rust is a philosophical loner with an active mind who propounds the meaningless of life. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth Wagele Tags: Personality Work abstract thinking conventional thinking ESFJ INTP sensate vs intuitive types Source Type: news

Knowing What You've Never Learned
What theory could possibly account for suddenly knowing something – intensively, thoroughly, and often obsessively – that you’ve never been taught? This is what happens with prodigies and savants.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael Jawer Tags: Cognition Creativity Memory Neuroscience Personality Source Type: news

Doctor Who and the Neuroscience of Morality Malfunctions
Has the Doctor misplaced one of his hearts? The latest version of the lead character on "Doctor Who" seems short on empathy and he worries whether regeneration skewed his morality when it completely altered his body. Both neural manipulation and traumatic brain injury can alter real people's empathic and moral capabilities in terms of cognition, emotion, and compassion. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Travis Langley, Ph.D. Tags: Media Memory Neuroscience Personality alexithymia amnesia amnestic syndrome BBC brain injury Clara Clara Oswald cognitive empathy compassionate empathy Dalek Danny Pink deep breath delirium dementia doctor who Doctor Source Type: news

To Thine Own Self Be Who? Part II
You may have heard the expression, “To thine own self be true.” But what happens when you don’t know your true self? This is part II in a series of free self-tests aimed at helping you discover the real you.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kimberly Key Tags: Personality Relationships Self-Help compatibility assessment free personality test hippocrates intuitive Jung temperament test thinking versus feeling Source Type: news

Eight Ways to Handle a Narcissist
People with narcissistic personality tendencies, who constantly need to see themselves as the center of attention, can be annoying to say the least. If you care about someone whose narcissism tends to get out of control, these 8 strategies will help you keep their egos, and your anger, under control.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Personality Relationships Work anxiety grandiose narcissism insecurity low self-esteem psychotherapy effectiveness relationship tips workplace tensions Source Type: news

DMT: Gateway to Reality, Fantasy or What?
The bizarre phenomenon of encounters with non-human entities under the influence of DMT has inspired both mystical and scientific speculations. Greater understanding of the psychological and personality characteristics of DMT users might help shed light on this curious phenomenon. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Scott A. McGreal, MSc. Tags: Neuroscience Personality Spirituality DMT mysticism non-human entities psychedelic drugs Source Type: news

Generation Y: From Team Members to Leaders
How does the new generation of workers transform itself into leaders? In her new book, Becoming the Boss, Lindsey Pollak offers Gen Y readers advice to help them grow from team members to team leaders. Pollak is here to share some of that advice, with special angles for introverts.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nancy Ancowitz Tags: Personality Work Becoming the Boss career criticism generation y Getting from College to Career introverts leaders leadership Lindsey Pollak management millennials quiet strengths Source Type: news

A Day in the Country
I thought I was allergic to life beyond the city limits. A recent visit to a rural small town helped broaden my perspective. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Hooper Tags: Happiness Personality personal growth perspective Source Type: news

Not a Self-Hating Jew, A Tribe-Unexceptionalist One
Jewish hawks label my kind "Self-Hating Jews but I love myself and my tribe. I'm just not putting ourselves above all other tribes, as the hawks seem to want to do.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Law and Crime Personality Philosophy Politics Social Life Spirituality Source Type: news

Does Media Violence Breed Real Life Killing?
Terrorism from abroad scares us, and yet the larger danger may be the terrorists we inadvertently are breeding within our own families and communities. Over 1000 research studies have clarified a frightening reality. Fortunately, there's lots you can do about it. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Heitler, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Law and Crime Personality Self-Help media violence TV violence violent video games Source Type: news

Do You Need to Be Liberated From Your Past?
Do you feel free to be yourself? Have you ever been told that you overreact to others—or perhaps that you underreact to them? In one way or another, behavioral programs that were adaptive for you in childhood may be continuing, however irrationally, to govern your behavior as an adult. And if this is the case, the present post may offer you some "actionable" insights. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Personality Relationships Self-Help Source Type: news

Why You Might Not Take Your Partner's Perspective
First comes love, then comes the realization that we are navigating life’s journey with another person who may have different thoughts, feelings, and beliefs than us. Perspective-taking is a fundamental social skill that helps us smoothly steer through the many bumps in the road, unfortunately not everyone is good at perspective-taking.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amie M. Gordon, PhD Tags: Happiness Health Personality Relationships Social Life conflict couples gratitude perspective taking perspective-taking power prosocial role taking selfish Source Type: news

Crying in Public: The Fear of Tears
Learn to express anger as anger rather than as sorrow, so that your outrage isn't misread as grief; get the wiring sorted out so that the lines of emotional communication are as clear and direct as possible.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gina Barreca, Ph.D. Tags: Gender Personality Self-Help Stress can you cry in public? crying and age crying and anger disappointment and crying does crying mean you ' re sad fear of crying in public is crying bad is crying in public bad strong women and Source Type: news