Over the years, when people have asked if I’m an introvert or an extrovert, I haven’t known what to say because I don’t identify fully with either personality type. It turns out I’m hardly alone. It’s ...

At the turn of the 18th century, Kant (1724 – 1804) reworked the Hippocratic-Galen theory and focused his analysis explicitly on describing the personality characteristics associated with the ...

Introversion and extroversion are a preference pair in the four categories of the Myers Briggs personality types. They refer to how a person gains energy from the world around them. Introverts often ...

Raymond Cattell is one of the founding fathers of the trait perspective in personality psychology. He is widely known for his role in the development of factor analysis, a statistical tool for ...

The Big Five personality traits refer to the basic human characteristics that make up a person’s personality, according to research done by various psychologists and scientists. Personality is unique ...