While personality isn’t set in stone, your birth order can play a large influence, probably due in part to the shifting family dynamics as younger siblings appear (or not). Face it, the firstborn ...

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A large number of studies suggests that personality is a key factor in determining the quality of romantic relationships—for better and for worse. Researchers in Australia combined the results from 19 ...

People who wind up with more retirement savings tend to share four behavioral traits. You can probably guess some of them. It is a truism, for example, that good retirement planning requires the ...

New research is shedding light on how certain personality traits may influence criminality. In a study published in Current Psychology, Machiavellianism—a trait characterized by manipulative and ...