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Instant Best Friend Recognition—The Click Factor
While most friendships are traced through the development of increasing closeness and shared self-disclosure, there are indeed friendships that just magically and spontaneously ignite and bond two people together.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Degges-White, Ph.D. Tags: Evolutionary Psychology Happiness Personality Relationships Source Type: news

Anonymous Commenters Are Ruining Everything. Here's How.
Sites that allow anonymous comments tend to have much lower quality discussions. This pushes sites toward Facebook for commenting functionality. But now that Facebook is enforcing its "real name" policy, it is hard to discuss contentious issues without facing real personal consequences. This side effect of uncivil anonymous commenters is leading us down a dangerous path.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer Golbeck, Ph.D. Tags: Media Personality anonymous comments Disinhibition Facebook Source Type: news

Colleag-emy #2: The Workplace Diva
The Workplace Diva can drive you crazy. What is the best way to minimize their effect on the job?read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Degges-White, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Personality Relationships Self-Help Source Type: news

Which Types of People Make the Best Liars?
There has been quite a lot of research on how to detect lies, but which types of people are most successful at deception? read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. Tags: Ethics and Morality Personality Social Life body language deception lying nonverbal communication personality and deception psychology of deception Source Type: news

Dietz's DBT Site Has Helped Thousands of Borderline Folks
"Staying active with the site has been a real gift. It has allowed me to remain active in DBT and be reminded of the skills to make my life a life worth living. This has been the most gratifying work I have ever done. It has become more than I could have ever imagined."read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Randi Kreger Tags: Personality Self-Help Source Type: news

The Psychology of Terrorists (Pt. 2): The Messiah Complex
What motivates terrorist leaders like Osama Bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed head of ISIS? Clearly, the answer to such a question is complex, and varies to some extent from person to person. However, like the late bin Laden, al-Baghdadi seems to be exhibiting some sort of messiah complex.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Hitler holy war ISIS messiah complex Osama bin Laden; Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Source Type: news

iMoan
The release of the new iPhone 6 reminds me of the five virtues of complaining I have so rashly left behind.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Berger and Glen Tibaldeo Tags: Neuroscience Personality Self-Help Stress Apple complaining iphone6 samsung Source Type: news

They're Everywhere
What is it that characterizes an a-hole? I think more than anything else it is an insensitivity to the feelings of other people; it’s a kind of forgetting that we live in a world where we coexist with others and that what we do and say affects them.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mark Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Social Life a-holes books fundamental attribution error funny jerks Source Type: news

What Do Heroes and Psychopaths Have in Common?
Recent research looks at whether heroes and psychopaths are "twigs from the same branch." People who have performed heroic actions to help others often have a history of antisocial behavior as well. There may be loose connections between heroism and having "psychopathic" qualities, but the reasons for this remain unclear. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Scott A. McGreal, MSc. Tags: Personality antisocial behavior heroism psychopathy Source Type: news

Your Best Online Narcissism Stories
Last week, I asked you to share your best stories of online narcissism. You shared some good ones from the online AND offline world. Here are some of the best ones.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer Golbeck, Ph.D. Tags: Media Personality narcissism social media Source Type: news

Money Can't Buy You (Self) Love
New research shows that economic hard times can make us less narcissistic and self-absorbed. But what happens when the economy recovers? Paul Roberts explores the complicated connection between prosperity and personality, market and mind.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paul Roberts Tags: Behavioral Economics Personality Great Recession millennials mind and market narcissism post-materialism self-love Source Type: news

Are You a Replacement Child?
The replacement child is a phenomenon known through early clinical papers but not well recognized in the mainstream. Many people know they are replacement children from early on while others only come to recognize themselves as such as life unfolds. Understanding the unique phenomenon of the RC may lead to better resolution for the individual.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Abigail Brenner, M.D. Tags: Personality Psychiatry Resilience Self-Help adopted child awareness of life circumstances as RC consequences of being a replacement child death of sibling handicapped or challenged child identity confusion parental grief perfectionis Source Type: news

The Faces of Male Borderline Personality Disorder
We have so much information about women with borderline personality disorder. But men too can suffer from low self-esteem, insecurity, and enormous self doubt that can compromise the stability of their intimate relationships. Because we've tended to stereotype men as the 'tough ones,' we've missed the boat on understanding the complexity of their inner world.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Randi Kreger Tags: Gender Personality Source Type: news

Life Lessons From Our Two Competing Definitions of "Cool"
In pop culture and pop psychology, being cool means either being a winner or being OK with losing. To make sense of this ambiguity, and peace with the challenge of staying cool, we explore coolness's evolutionary roots. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Animal Behavior Creativity Ethics and Morality Personality Philosophy Politics Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Spirituality Source Type: news

What Is Your Charisma Quotient?
Many people believe that charisma is some special gift bestowed on a very few lucky people. However, after more than a third of a century researching charisma, we better understand what makes a person charismatic, and it is something that can be measured, learned, and developed. Here are the basic elements of what we call “personal charisma” read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - September 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Relationships Social Life Charisma charisma potential charisma quotient emotional intelligence emotional skill social effectiveness social intelligence social skills social skills inventory Source Type: news