Mr. Personality

Social Networking

Digital Chit Chat

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on April 11, 2012

How gossip contributed to the Facebook effect

Eating Disorders

Are Eating Disorders Heritable?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on April 8, 2012

Are eating disorders the product of nature or nurture?

Relationships

Five Reasons Why Relationships Fail

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on April 5, 2012

Your personality determines how successful your relationship may be.

Career

The Unspoken Truth about Career Success: Suck Up and Keep Your Boss Happy

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on March 24, 2012

The art and science of career success.

Personality

Why Businesses Will Pay More Attention to Personality In the Future

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on March 8, 2012

How personality may shape the future of employment

Cognition

Is Apple Making Us More Creative? Can a Brand or Telephone Improve Civilisation? Is There an App for It Yet?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on February 26, 2012

Would Steve Job buy an Apple if he didn't work for the company (and was alive)?

Emotional Intelligence

Personality and Brand Choice: Can Your Favorite Brands Reveal Your EQ?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on February 1, 2012

Are we more likely to like brands and celebrities if we resemble them?

Personality

Why Curiosity Doesn’t Kill the Cat

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on October 25, 2011

Personality

Personality and the Laws of History: Lessons from Libya

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on August 24, 2011

Goodbye Gadaffi

Psychopathy

Are all Entrepreneurs Psychopaths?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on August 21, 2011

Psychopathic Greed: How Normal are Entrepreneurs?

Intelligence

Success Beyond Success: Time To Redefine IQ?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on August 18, 2011

Who are the smartest people you know? Do they have a high IQ?

Personality

Why do All Rock Stars Die at 27?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on July 24, 2011

Can you live too long to be a rock star?

OCD

What Makes Your Obsession Healthy or Unhealthy

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on July 23, 2011

Productive passion or dangerous obsession? Where do we draw the line?

Leadership

How to Get Rid of Your Boss—Without Changing Jobs

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on July 16, 2011

How personality can help you avoid working for someone you hate

Motivation

Ambition, Power-Drive, and the Psychology of Calculated Risks: Lessons from DSK

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on July 6, 2011

The relationship between financial risk taking and addictive personality traits

Insomnia

Creative Insomnia: Genius Never Sleeps?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on July 1, 2011

A closer look at productivity-based insomnia

Social Networking

Gossip, Social Networking, and Job Satisfaction: Why Personality Matters

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on June 26, 2011

If you are addicted to gossip, try to avoid social networking sites

Ethics and Morality

Morality at Work: Can Personality Explain Immoral Office Behaviors?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on June 25, 2011

Badly managed employees will cheat even if they are moral people

Relationships

Are Computer Games Making Children Stupid?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on June 15, 2011

What if computer games are actually making your kids smarter?

Personality

The Psychology of Career Choices: Why Personality Matters

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. on June 3, 2011

Knowledge of your personality can help you make the perfect Career choice.