News tagged with personality types
Researchers find link between personality and credit scores
The use of credit scores as employment screening tools is a hotly debated topic. According to a 2010 poll by the Society for Human Resource Management, 60 percent of surveyed employers conducted credit checks for some or ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Nov 02, 2011 |
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How leaders evolve
Researchers have developed a mathematical model that explores how leaders and followers emerge in different circumstances and predicts the most likely personality types of those leaders.
May 05, 2011 |
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Substance over style in entertainment
Whether they affect the films we watch, the books we read or the music we listen to, our choices about entertainment often appear to have as much to do with style, as substance.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Type D personality associated with higher future heart risk
Heart patients with the "distressed" (Type D) personality profile may face a higher risk of future cardiovascular problems, according to a summary article published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Ca ...
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Happy extraverts are more creative: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Outgoing people who are in a good mood are significantly more creative than people who keep themselves to themselves, according to a new study.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Why can't some people give up cocaine?
Drug dependency is a recurrent but treatable kind of addiction. However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Personality traits influencing weight loss
Being too optimistic could harm weight loss efforts. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, BioPsychoSocial Medicine, reveals the psychological characteristics that may contribute to weight loss.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Study: Terrorism Evokes Different Responses Among Genders and Personality Types
(PhysOrg.com) -- Terrorism incites fear designed to coerce governments to act, according to definitions of "terrorism" in U.S. law, in U.N. resolutions and elsewhere. But terrorism often prompts as much anger and retaliation ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Personality types may contribute to genetic success of bighorn sheep
(PhysOrg.com) -- There must be times when University of Alberta researcher David Coltman wishes his study on animal personalities focused on something small, like a house cat. Coltman would classify cats that ...
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Personality traits contribute to 'placebo effect'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have found for the first time that novelty seeking personality types enjoy a stronger “placebo response,” or pain relief caused by the administration of a sham treatment, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 23, 2009 |
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