The reason we love stories is the characters. Sure, we like a good, exciting plot and an interesting world, but complex characters are what turn those worlds and plots into something memorable—they ...

Psychologists have been studying personality for a very long time. Thinking about personality as a collection of traits goes all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome, and trait theorists such as ...

Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Key Takeaways The Big Five personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—represent broad dimensions of personality that ...