Personality tests can be fun to take, but they can also be frustrating. They’re black and white. Most popular personality tests assume that people can be classified into distinct personality types.

Personality tests are often treated as objective assessments of one's innermost intentions. People relish using their results as justification for their less understandable impulses. There is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Personality tests are often treated as tools for diagnosis or ...

You've probably seen the nice drawings and memes on Instagram joking about what coffee shop or Christmas ornament you are based on something called an Enneagram type ...

Personality assessments can help us understand who we truly are, both our strengths and weaknesses, as well as our hidden aspects. They provide a way for us to identify ourselves as unique and measure ...

Self-actualization enables one to realize better who they are, their strength, and their weakness. After understanding one’s personality, it’s easy to become more of who someone is or learn from past ...

This post describes the results of an empirical study I did on the personality disorders when I was working in A. T. Beck’s lab back in 2002. We presented it as a poster at the APA convention that ...