How fast does IQ decline? Can you do anything about it?

The Big 3 Motives — Moving past the Big 5 Traits.

In my two most recent blog entries, I have considered both the strengths and weaknesses of the Big 5 Trait Model. I concluded that although the model is seemingly unparalleled in its ubiquitous usage and descriptive ability, it simply cannot…

Let’s Draw Out Our Intelligence

By all means, grab your pencils and get your intelligence ready to…

One click personality test

Reflecting one’s thoughts and feelings by choosing a certain images or visual stimuli has always been an interesting aspect for me in the psychology world. Just like how people suggest picking a certain tools in a picture will tell if that suspect is a criminal or he or she is…

Closing the gap: cultural bias in psychological assessment.

Into the Mind of a Sociopath

If you’ve been following my deep interest and curiosity about the said “wakos” in this world, you probably know quite a bit about psychopaths and somewhat about sociopaths by now.

Is the Big Five Universal?

It has been elucidated in voluminous number of studies using the Big Five Inventory that Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Openness and Neuroticism are personality traits that can be found across a wide range of population. Nevertheless, an article published in 2012…

My experience with the MBTI

Back in grade 8, during my Career and Personal Planning Class, I had my personality analyzed for the first time. I remember logging into a website and completing somewhere around 60 or so questions for a personality inventory called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. I found myself…

The Perceptions of Dating Infidelity Scale

Infidelity is a hot topic in the study of relationships. That makes it much more surprising that there is no commonly accepted definition for infidelity in the field. This means that psychologists have to grapple with the question of how to define their…