In lectures and on this blog I have raised the issue of identity being geographical for some. in the conceptual language of David...

Identity formation is a major developmental task in adolescence but continues throughout adulthood. Significant individual differences,...

Whilst it is a widely held view that depression is the result of life events alone, this model fails to recognize that these events are...

More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as...

A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above...

A study just published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, analyzed the traits of 1.5 million using a unique logarithms. What did it...

A key feature of high flyers is the personality trait of conscientiousness. These individuals are focused, hard working, organised and...

In lectures I often reference the differences in inherited personality traits have on human development. Agreeableness is an interesting...

Is there such a thing as an evil personality type? This is a challenging question for many in the field. By and large, people who are...

It's often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we feel. Now, new research reveals that...

Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my perennial interest in the psychology of political thinking. Certainly, in these...

Purdue University researchers think the gap between a psychologists' diagnosis and a patient's self-evaluation might not be as extreme as...

Ever since positing a review of the research behind the Cathy Newman vs Jordan Peterson debate, I have noticed an increasing slew of...

When people think of "personality," they are likely to think of traits such as warmth or extraversion. For example, a person with high...

In an earlier post (Is Cathy Newman just WEIRD?) I suggested that university life is psychological transformative in ways which have not...

In lectures I often state that we do not have a science of personality. Whilst this was a central focus of early psychology studies, the...

In lectures on the life course I often discuss two central issues about aging. Firstly is the concept of age deviancy. This is the...