The words you use can reveal a lot about your personality, and in more subtle ways than you think. Researchers (like me) are using that fact to look at what you do online and discover the secrets of ...

Studies indicate that the number of times you use specific words or phrases has a close link to your characteristic way of behaving, thinking and feeling. Generally, individuals tend to use more words ...

Your words reveal more about you than you think. If phrases like “Let’s get to the point” or “It is what it is” sound ...

A new study just released by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is giving new meaning to the phrase “reading between the lines.” Researchers there investigated what one’s vocabulary can ...

Balancing introverts and extroverts in an office can be challenging for a boss, but it’s something that any good leader knows how to do. Both introverts and extroverts offer something different at ...

“What personality type are you?” It’s been a staple of magazine quizzes for decades, the multiple-choice invitation to discover our character traits and their impact on our lives. Did you know with a ...

It has long been believed that people can’t change their personalities, which are largely stable and inherited. But a review of recent research in personality science points to the possibility that ...

I was in a shop in China, and wanted to haggle for something that I considered too pricey, I decided to use a bit of paper to write the numbers on and haggle rather than struggle with Chinese numbers.