Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...

Your choice of words might seem random, but linguists and psychologists have discovered that certain verbal patterns betray deeply rooted personality characteristics. Modern computational language ...

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Research on self-concordant goals shows that people experience greater well-being when their actions reflect their authentic ...

Are you a cunning linguist? Maybe you're a stickler for proper grammar. Maybe you commit so many typos that people think you're drunk texting... even when you're sober. Science says the words we use ...

The words you use can reveal a lot about your personality, and in more subtle ways than you think. Researchers (like me) are using that fact to look at what you do online and discover the secrets of ...

I have been examining how psychologists and other experts judge personality, and how experts' judgments of personality might differ from the judgments made by ordinary people. My aim is to explore how ...