Defining the basic elements of personality remains a challenge despite decades of sophisticated research. A new approach drills down into personality’s possible nuances.

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 ...

Personality tests abound on the internet, from the official (Myers-Briggs) to the fizzier (“What Your Favorite Boy Band Says About You”). With countless tests to take and even more results to receive, ...