personality

Abstract: Link: [The Higher Power of Religiosity Over Personality on Political Ideology]

Well having just come across this (I know it's the Daily Mail) A psychologist plugs their new book on supposed birth order on personality. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1351567/First-born-Piggy-middle-Or-baby-How-place-family-rules-life.html The above reads like a load of vague...

Rather than sidetrack the thread on JW I thought I'd start a new thread. SOdhner wrote: I responded with: SOdhner responded: If I made 10 copies of myself and then each went off having different experiences then you have 1 seayakin person then suddenly 10 different seayakins so that...

I'm Curious, how did personality, intelligence, and humor, come out of non-living chemicals?

Apologies for posting this in the Business Scepticism forum as well as the Science forum, but I'm not sure which forum woulf be most appropriate and I'm really keen to get responses from anyone on this. (If it must only be one thread, mods please feel free to merge where appropriate) My...

My company's HR department is currently expressing an interest in using Psychometric Testing as part of its recruitment processes. I am quite opposed to this as I do not see how it can be consistently and prefessionally applied in recruitment procedure by non-professionals. (How effective it...

I am suspicious of this because I am wary of convenient so called "personality " tests that attempt to back up such research but anyway... full report at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6375381.stm

I have a friend who swears he has a spirit guide who guides him and warns him of danger. Do you think it could be a form of personality disorder?

OK, can anyone point me in the direction of any valid scientific studies that have been done on this test which is being picked up by many companies as a way to "improve communications." I remain skeptical that such a test is actual valid and reliable. But sio many companies are selling...

I never jumped on the MPD/DID/Repressed Memory/Satanic Ritual Abuse bandwagon. I have a degree in social work, so I am not an uneducated observer. I researched quite a bit and came to the conclusion based on the hard science of how memory works. I know that MPD was renamed Dissociative Identity...

I keep running into these bogus personality tests at job interviews. They are indentical to the crap tests in womens magazines why are companies so easily sold on this? I call it corporate voodoo. There is one test I have seen several times that is just a list of words and you have to circle...

Friend o' mine just sent me a link to a version of the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, http://www.kisa.ca/personality/ and was rather excited that we were one letter apart. (Me=ISTP, him=INTP) Anyhoo, anyone have any info on how scientifically regarded these tests are? Do people use them to...

So, I recieved e-mail today pertaining to a job interview. I wasn't really looking, but someone was interested in my monster resume. I decided to read it, I mean, I can always go to a better job offer. I'm not going to interview, pay is way low and I don't care to live in the red-state...

I'm not sure whether to put this in politics or Science/Medicine... But I'm wondering if Bush has characteristics of a psychopathic personality. -INRM P.S. Anyone remember the Robert D. Hare test?

As a follow up to Plinboe's post Psychics and inability to admit being wrong I thought I would ouline a little theory that occured to me. Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) first really came to the world’s attention with the book (1973) and the film (1976, starring Sally Field) Sybil. (It...

If god(s) were real what do you think they'd be like? Please note if you really believe in the god you describe, otherwise it's taken that you don't.

IF a person is given a free theme, to draw whatever he wants... would a psychologist be able to analyze this drawing and describe personality traits? I know graphology is bunk. So is Rorschach. But what about drawings? Is there any scientifical basis for that kind of analysis? A friend of mine...

Is there any connection between the two? Recently in Japan there's been one or two programs about this, showing things like infants in each of the group exhibiting "typical" behaviour, but we don't know how selective they were in picking these "typical" kids. They also showed other numbers that...

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I am going to an executive management off-site course that will last six weeks. As part of the pre-course activities I was asked to complete a Myer-Briggs Personality Indicator survey. I've done similar versions of these things in the past and found them to be useless. This one had about 60...

Hi, My office has recently started using personality tests as part of the recruitment procedure. I think the company that makes them are PPA.These are tests where you have a list of sets of four unrelated words, and you mark the one that describes you most, and the one that describes you least...

If you haven't seen the movie "Identity" and you want to be surprised, don't read any further. However, I'm sure most skeptics would hate the movie. I couldn't understand, before I saw "Identity", why some reviewers thought it was great and others thought it was ridiculous. Then I saw it...