Sometimes the traits society labels as "bad" can actually be the secret ingredients to success. These quirks and ...

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Every woman has a Scumbag Radar that goes off when they get an 'ick' feeling about a guy — even if everyone else is too ...

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Personality traits are usually considered distinct from ... Neuroticism (sometimes called negative emotionality) is a person’s disposition to experience challenging emotional states such as ...

The term “Dark Triad” refers to a trio of negative personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—which share some common malevolent features. The construct was coined by ...

A pair of psychologists in the U.K. report that there is no scientific basis for the idea that personality traits influence ...

Read an excerpt from Olga Khazan’s new book Me, But Better, in which she explores a year of tweaking her personality and ...

Embrace, and don’t ignore, these bad boss traits “We laugh at these bad bosses, point fingers at them, blame them and even come up with nasty names to call them. But where has that gotten us?