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The Imposter Syndrome
“When I do something well and have success, I feel like it’s a fluke.”
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Why Daydreaming Might Explain a Neurotic's Creativity
It might have to do with how your brain processes self-generated thoughts.
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The Invisible Storm of the Neurotic Mind
Some people see threats even when none are present. Strangely, it can make them more creative. By Olga Khazan.
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Finding Yourself Through the Myers-Briggs Test
The personality test isn't perfect, but it plays to people's desire to understand themselves and others.
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Why We Are Attracted to Deviant Personalities
New research finds that heterosexual people with pathological personalities have better success finding mates. By Karl Gruber.
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In Defense of Small Talk
It’s not shallow, boring, or offensive. It’s a crucial social lubricant as valuable as wine or laughter. By Ruth Graham.
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Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why
When you picture a “grammar nazi”, what does that person look like? Are they old or young? Male or female? Professorial or blue-collar? A new study suggests they could be any of those things. In an experiment involving 80 Americans from a range of backgrounds, linguists Julie Boland and Robin Queen found no significant links between a judgmental attitude towards “typos” and “grammos” and gender, age or level of education.
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Psychologists Have Invented a Test to Measure Your Secret Need for Drama
See how you rank. By Melissa Dahl.
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Personality Tests Are Popular, But Do They Capture The Real You?
It can be a lot of fun taking those back-of-the-magazine personality tests. But tests may be less fun when they are used by employers to make big life decisions on hiring and job performance. Twelve years ago, I tried to drive a stake into the heart of the personality-testing industry. Personality tests are neither valid nor reliable, I argued, and we should stop using them — especially for making decisions that affect the course of people's lives, like workplace hiring and promotion.
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Personality Can Change Over A Lifetime, And Usually For The Better
Psychologists have been arguing for decades over whether personality traits are real or a myth. More recent research shows that traits are real, a scientist says, and have a big effect on behavior. By Christopher Soto.
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The talking dead: how personality drives smartphone addiction
Are you moody? Prone to distraction? Cellphones may act as a high-tech pacifier. By James A. Roberts.
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Emptiness
Narcissists are imitators par excellence. And they do not copy the small, boring parts of selves. By Kristin Dombek.
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Neuroscientist Dean Burnett, author of The Idiot Brain, peers into our heads
Author pokes holes in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and explains how drinking can help us recall memories. By Jonathan Forani. (May 17, 2016)
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Introvert Hangovers Can Be Really Rough
Apparently, some people get physically ill from talking to others too much. By Jesse Singal. (Aug. 15, 2016)
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How Irritable Are You? Take This Test to Find Out
“If we can isolate irritability we can perhaps develop treatments that are best targeted towards people that are particularly irritable.” 2016. By Jesse Singal.
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Martin Aurelio reviews The Nine Laws by Ivan Throne
What if Julius Evola had written a samurai treatise? What if Lao Tzu had written a long, systematic book of philosophy instead of the short, poetic chapters of the Tao Te Ching? What if the famed, long-lost book On Nature by Heraclitus – he who was called “The Dark” – were to be found and published?
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These Repugnant Quotes Will Complicate Your View Of Your Most Beloved Icons
We all say things we don't mean — but these people definitely meant what appears here. By John Kuroski.
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Daniel McConnell: Australian underwear 'hero' wins millions of fans
An Australian man has shot to fame after telling how - dressed only in his underwear - he chased a driver who crashed into a shop. Daniel McConnell leapt from bed after the smash in Brisbane, Queensland, in the early hours of Thursday. He said he followed the driver, who fled the scene, before giving police directions to apprehend him. "I was just chasing him in me jocks," Mr McConnell said in a TV interview viewed millions of times online.
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If you have a twisted sense of humor, it’s probably because you’re a cool genius.
A new study found that an appreciation for dark jokes is linked to higher IQ and lower aggression.
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So you’re surrounded by idiots. Guess who the real jerk is
Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around? Then maybe you’re the one with the jerkitude. By Eric Schwitzgebel.
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