Personality

When we go in for a job interview we strive to be (or at least appear) confident, hard-working, and professional. We hope to demonstrate our problem-solving skills and our ability to not only get along with but work with others. And when we’re going on a date? We attempt to…

I am the most indecisive person I know. I spend hours surveying every aisle at the grocery store, deciding whether I should buy this item or that one. The same goes for when I’m shopping for new clothes or picking out new decorations for my apartment. Oh, I like that….

People love love. They love to talk about it, read about it, watch movies about it, and most of all, experience it. The ultimate goal for many is to find love. Every girl wants a prince to come along and sweep her off her feet. And every guy awaits the…

I didn’t know I was a control freak until my ex-boyfriend couldn’t hold it from me any longer. We were on our way to see a movie—a safe 45 minutes before it started of course—when he just lost it. He said he couldn’t take it any longer. Not just my…

You just found out that your best friends made plans to go to the beach without you. Why wasn’t I invited? Do they not want me there? Instead of confronting them and the problem head on, you ignore their phone calls and their texts. You don’t invite them to your…

What Is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)? The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a psychological test that evaluates and determines personality characteristics. It measures people’s mental health and provides evidence of mental disorders. Who Should Take the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)? The MMPI test is mainly geared…

You decide to wear a dress instead of your regular attire of blue jeans and a T-shirt when you meet your family for dinner one night, and your sister gives you a compliment that doesn’t really seem flattering at all. She says she doesn’t usually like what you wear, but…

Precrastination is a concept so new that my spell-check still doesn’t know about it (darn red squiggly lines). But, according to paper being published in Psychological Science, it’s not something the Onion/Conan/Fallon invented. We all know that procrastination is the tendency to put things off, sometimes to our own detriment…

Carl Rogers, the founder of humanistic psychotherapy (non-directive therapy) talks about the power of listening to feelings, and reflecting them back to clients, in therapy (and in relationships in general). Dr. Rogers states, We give too little importance and consideration to an element which is extremely important… It is one…

When we think of introversion and extraversion, we pit the concepts against each other, categorizing individuals as being one or the other. And yet more and more people will vehemently shout that they are “a little of both” or within some kind of gray area. If the two concepts are so dissimilar, then why do so many people feel this way?

Are you someone who struggles to create and be creative? For some, creativity and artistic expression seems like something that…well other people are good at. And yet most of us feel an urge to create and express ourselves. So why is this so difficult? Note that creativity is not something…

Are You a Psychopath? The term “psychopath” is one you’ve probably heard tossed around in conversation, sometimes flippantly. But what is a psychopath, really, and how can you tell if you fall under this classification? Psychopathy is a personality disorder that is associated with individuals who are very antisocial. They…