Personality Traits

Business & Economics

What’s the impact of self-control on our lives?

Greater self-control is associated with improved life outcomes including health and satisfaction

Health & Medicine

How brain rhythms can reveal your personality

A new study shows machine learning can be used to predict aspects of a person’s personality from their electrical brain rhythms

Health & Medicine

Can your personality be good, or bad, for your health?

The HILDA 2019 Survey finds intriguing links between dominant personality traits and the onset of serious illness – but it’s more likely to do with the behaviours linked to those traits

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