Introvert

A thought about ethical concerns: Little Albert

Have we become too ethical in psychological testing? Are we not ethical enough? It is, of course, a difficult question to answer. First of all, what are ethics? Merriam-Webster defines it as “an area of study that deals with ideas about what is…

Don’t let your personality stop you

Personality tests are used by many to get insight into their behaviour. Some people take the results as interesting and insightful and move on. On the other hand there are some people who try to use this information to make major decisions in their lives such as what program to apply for…

Reliability: Is the Test Unreliable or Ourselves?

For the last entry of my blog, I wanted to look at unreliability of tests and how it can potentially be…

The Big 5: What does the test say about you?

What do we need to know about a person to know them well? What does it mean if someone is shy? How much do people change in their personality over their life?

Thinking well, acting well: how different are they really?

Altruism. It’s a word most have come across; one that comes with an unquestionable positive connotation, and one that many strive to exemplify.

Introverts, Extroverts, Ambiverts?

For the past week, I have been reading a book by Susan Cain called Quiet. The book was assigned by our professor in one of my psychology classes. The author’s main objective is to convince the audience that introverts are not inferior in any way in comparison to…

My fear of introversion

I had always been interested solving tests that revealed something about myself. When you are a teenager you go through magazines and try to see what grown-ups are up to. I loved solving the tests in the back of those magazines. It would most often not apply to me, of course, but I…

“ALL MY PERSONALITIES SAY ‘HI’!”

— — do you identify with the Big Five traits?