For a long time, people have been asking whether certain demographic traits are associated with higher risks of believing in conspiracy theories. For example, there is plenty of literature trying to ...

DO YOU think the moon-landings were faked, the earth is flat or that the Government are keeping alien technology locked up in ...

These findings suggest even highly educated people can be resistant to changing their mind if underlying psychological needs ...

Narcissists love being right (even when they’re wrong). No amount of education will change that. In A Nutshell New research ...

In common day talk we use the word personality often, ostensibly to describe characteristics that we like or dislike about other individuals. But is personality an enduring pattern of behavior or ...

An experimental study conducted in Italy found that individuals with pronounced borderline personality traits tended to show ...

Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Key Takeaways The Big Five personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—represent broad dimensions of personality that ...

Most of us believe we are “too smart” to fall for misinformation. But, ironically, research has shown that those who think they are least susceptible often fall the hardest. So, where do conspiracy ...

Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) has emerged as a pivotal framework for understanding the neural mechanisms underlying personality. The theory posits that individual differences in sensitivity ...