It might be obvious that internet quizzes are not scientific, but many of the seemingly serious personality tests used to guide educational and career choices are also not supported by research.

Have you ever taken a personality test? If you’re like me, you’ve consulted BuzzFeed and you know exactly which Taylor Swift song “perfectly matches your vibe.” It might be obvious that internet ...

Learning and personality interact in several ways. Source: Kaushal Moradiya / Pexels The open-access journal Collabra: Psychology has recently published a special collection of papers on the interplay ...

Shannon Sauer-Zavala receives funding from that National Institute of Mental Health to support her research. Have you ever taken a personality test? If you’re like me, you’ve consulted BuzzFeed and ...

Many of us have some aspect of our personalities we wish we could change. Maybe you’d love to be a bit more outgoing, daring, resilient, or hard-working. But it can feel as if shifting something as ...