Video Game Addiction Is Linked To 2 Personality Traits (M)

Signs of video game addiction include lying about time spent playing games and wanting to play less but being unable.

Signs of video game addiction include lying about time spent playing games and wanting to play less but being unable.


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How To Instantly Read Someone’s Personality With One Question (M)

One type of question can indirectly reveal a lot about a person’s personality.

One type of question can indirectly reveal a lot about a person’s personality.

Asking someone what they think about other people reveals much about their own personality.

The reason is that people tend to see more of their own qualities in others.

The generous person sees others as generous and the selfish person sees others as selfish.

Dr Dustin Wood, the study’s first author, said:

“A huge suite of negative personality traits are associated with viewing others negatively.

The simple tendency to see people negatively indicates a greater likelihood of depression and various personality disorders.”

The conclusions come from a series of three studies.

In one people were asked to judge the positive and negative characteristics of three other people.

The more positively they judged those people, the more happy, enthusiastic, capable and emotionally stable they turned out to be themselves.

People who judged others more positively also turned out to be more satisfied with their own lives.

Set against this, those who judged others more negatively had higher levels of narcissism and antisocial behaviour.

The researchers even returned to the same people a year later and found the results were the same.

This suggests that what people’s ratings of others say about themselves remains stable over time.

Personality disorders are often diagnosed at least partly by how people view others, the authors write:

“…although narcissists may perceive others as being uninteresting or worthless, this may not reflect how they see themselves.

Similarly, individuals displaying behaviors typical of paranoid personality disorder may believe that others are malevolent and untrustworthy, even though they may not see themselves that way.

Machiavellianism is usually measured in part by asking individuals the extent to which they perceive a lack of sincerity, integrity, or selflessness in others’ actions, and narcissistic behavior is thought to be prompted in part by a belief that other people are inferior, uninteresting, and unworthy of attention.”

The study was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Wood et al., 2010).

 

Why It’s Hard To Appreciate How Much Your Personality Has Changed (M)

Try thinking back yourself to how you used to be 10 or even 20 years ago. Do you feel your personality has changed?

Try thinking back yourself to how you used to be 10 or even 20 years ago. Do you feel your personality has changed?


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The Perfect Personality Trait For Intelligent People (M)

The most fundamentally important personality trait for a thoughtful person of any political hue.

The most fundamentally important personality trait for a thoughtful person of any political hue.


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This Social Media Behaviour Points To Personality Issues (M)

Study connects this social media behaviour with narcissism and psychopathic personality traits.

Study connects this social media behaviour with narcissism and psychopathic personality traits.


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Social Darwinism Linked To Psychological Dysfunction (M)

Social Darwinism is the belief that the world is a  competitive jungle and that only the ‘strongest’ survive.

Social Darwinism is the belief that the world is a  competitive jungle and that only the 'strongest' survive.


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