News tagged with personality tests

Microsoft 'vault ' open for dying Google Health records

Microsoft on Monday offered its HealthVault as a new care center for digitized medical records kept at Google's dying Health service.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

These dating apps are all about location

Sitting in the stands at Dodger Stadium, Steve Bergmann began checking out nearby women he might hit on. But his eyes weren't scanning the seats - they were fixed on his smartphone.

Technology / Software

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Key diagnostic deadline draws near for psychiatrists and 'new' DSM conditions

"Where are we going to put the narcissists?" It was a question asked urgently by one of the hundreds of psychiatrists gathered here last week for their professional society's annual meeting. With doctors in the thick of a ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

With friends like these...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge researchers have created a website that combines the Facebook profiles of fans of companies and public figures with personality testing to create what they are describing as a “revolutionary” ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

With growing US support for personalized medicine, a look at ethical dilemmas

As government support for personalized medicine grows, a consumer advocate, a patient, and bioethicists explore ethical controversies. Direct-to-consumer genetic tests, privacy, targeted cancer therapies, and Henrietta Lacks ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Personality predicts cheating more than academic struggles, study shows

Students who cheat in high school and college are highly likely to fit the profile for subclinical psychopathy - a personality disorder defined by erratic lifestyle, manipulation, callousness and antisocial tendencies, according ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Personality test to explore rules of attraction

 A major new investigation which aims to solve two of the biggest unanswered questions in psychology is being launched by researchers at the University of Cambridge in partnership with the BBC.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Personality predicts success in medical school, says new study

Personality characteristics play a major role in determining who succeeds in medical school, according to new research published in the November issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology. The study, co-authored by Univer ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New project uses personal digital assistants to track TB data

For patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, it's critical to monitor the disease as closely as possible. That means monthly testing throughout a two-year course of powerful antibiotics, with injections six ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0