6 Ways to Manage the Differences in Your Relationship
Mary* loves chick flicks. Her boyfriend Sam* likes action movies—the more violence, the better. She’s a vegetarian. He’s a meat and potatoes guy. “I love him, but we seem totally mismatched,” she says. “We can’t agree on a movie or a meal; how can we make important life choices, like where we’ll live or when we’ll start a family?” read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: F. Diane Barth, L.C.S.W. Tags: Happiness Personality Relationships compliment conflict criticism disagreement discord harmony partnership Source Type: news

When Opposites Attract, Differences Can Be a Problem
Mary* loves chick flicks. Her boyfriend Sam* likes action movies—the more violence, the better. She’s a vegetarian. He’s a meat and potatoes guy. “I love him, but we seem totally mismatched,” she says. “We can’t agree on a movie or a meal; how can we make important life choices, like where we’ll live or when we’ll start a family?” read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: F. Diane Barth, L.C.S.W. Tags: Happiness Personality Relationships compliment conflict criticism disagreement discord harmony partnership Source Type: news

Sapiosexuality: What Attracts You to the Opposite Sex?
If you are attracted to the intelligence of the opposite sex, then you might be considered sapiosexual, a new term coined by the urban dictionary.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Diana Raab, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Sex emotional intelligence lsexual sexual desire Source Type: news

5 Chick Flix Rules For Finding and Sustaining True Love
Rule Number One: Be physically perfect. Right, so let's move on to the other rules because they're the source of true and lasting romantic chemistry in the movies and real life too.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Behavioral Economics Happiness Personality Relationships Sex Social Life Spirituality Source Type: news

Why Do We Pay It Forward?
What happens when customers are given the choice to pay whatever they want for a product? A new research article recently published in the Journal of Personality ad Social Psychology may provide the answer.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Romeo Vitelli, Ph.D. Tags: Behavioral Economics Personality Social Life research social psychology Source Type: news

Frustrated Scientist Makes Movie
Elaine Aron, Ph.D., okays a documentary about high sensitivity—here's how you can help.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Self-Help hsp sensitivity sensory processing sensitivity Source Type: news

Hyper
Today, of course, the term is “hyperactive” or, more completely, ADHD (“attention deficit hyperactivity disorder”), and it is more frequently applied to children – boys, in particular – than it is to adults. Had I grown up in the 1990s or ’00s rather than in the ’40s and ’50s, I probably would have been put on some kind of medication.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mark Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Creativity Happiness Personality ADD ADHD dating humor humorous portrayal hyperactive intelligence life-changing Source Type: news

Are You a Type A, B, or D Personality?
There are 3 types of personalities that have been related to physical health and disease. What are they?read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Resilience Self-Help Stress Coronary Prone disease prone personality personality types type A type B Type D Source Type: news

If You Are The Target of Narcissistic Abuse
A certain psychological position and understanding can help one weather, manage and recover from narcissistic abuse. What is so damaging about narcissistic abuse is that it can take a toll on identity, world view, confidence and hope. This kind of difficulty of the ego or the self can impact many aspects of life, but it can be turned around.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carrie Barron, M.D. Tags: Personality Resilience culture envy arrogance grandiosity heart Soft hearted souls soul murder trumped up Source Type: news

Things You Might Say to a Severe Narcissist
A certain psychological position and understanding can help one weather, manage and recover from narcissistic abuse. What is so damaging about narcissistic abuse is that it can take a toll on identity, world view, confidence and hope. This kind of difficulty of the ego or the self can impact many aspects of life, but it can be turned around.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carrie Barron, M.D. Tags: Personality Resilience culture envy arrogance grandiosity heart Soft hearted souls soul murder trumped up Source Type: news

Psychopath, Interrupted
An account from the 1940s purports to have cured a psychopath with an "accelerated" technique.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D. Tags: Law and Crime Personality Psychiatry Therapy hypnosis murder psychoanalysis psychopath Source Type: news

Inspirational Teachers
Most of us feel deeply indebted to a teacher of long ago who changed us. They seemed to inspire like no others; to find your strengths and engage your whole being. The question is what they did to be so inspirational?read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 24, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adrian Furnham, Ph.D. Tags: Education Personality Source Type: news

Do you have style? Take the test!
Personal style is more than just going to the right shops and buying what is featured in key magazines......read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ben C. Fletcher, D.Phil., Oxon Tags: Creativity Media Personality Self-Help behaviour chnage celebrities clothing styles do something different fashion sense habits interior design logos Source Type: news

Why People Are So Mean to Immigrant Children
The current wave of hostility toward the influx of Central American children has its psychic roots in, first, a need to project unacceptable needs and shameful vulnerabilities onto others who then become the "enemy," and, second, by scapegoating these children, some people feel a momentary sense of community based on an "us-vs-them" or "insider-outsider" experience.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael Bader, D.M.H. Tags: Ethics and Morality Personality Politics Race and Ethnicity children community envy ethnocentrism hatred immigration projection racism resentment right-wing scapegoating shame xenophobia Source Type: news

The Antidote to Poisonous Communication
Communication isn't always good for a couple. Sometimes it can poison love...but there are antidotes. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - August 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Kevin D. Arnold, Ph.D., ABPP Tags: Personality Relationships interpersonal communication love relational intimacy Source Type: news