Personality & Disease

Published in 2022, a PLOS ONE research study performed longitudinal assessments of personality changes in 7,109 Americans, aged 18 to 109, during the COVID-19 pandemic.  It is reported that, compared ...

Are marshmallows the key to happiness? They might be—but not in the way that you think. In the classic “Marshmallow Experiment” on delayed gratification, researchers brought hundreds of children—mostly around ...

There are many personality typing systems, and those various types generally fall into four categories. In this series, we summarize the emotional pitfalls of each “type” and explain their causative relationship ...

This article is part of a series on personality and diseases. There are many personality typing systems, and those various types generally fall into these four categories. We explore the emotional pitfalls ...

And no, it's not smoking or high blood pressure

That your emotions—and ability to process emotions—have an impact on your health is more than conventional wisdom. It's a detailed area of study