Is there a real connection between physical attractiveness and personality? A 2026 study replicates and extends earlier findings, using longitudinal data to examine whether the two are more meaningfully linked than most people assume.
Could an AI infer your personality just from the way you write and speak? A 2023 study put the idea to a rigorous psychometric test. The results are more nuanced than either enthusiasts or sceptics might expect.
What is the best way to measure how cognitively demanding a job is? A 2023 study argues the answer might be simpler than we thought: just look at the average intelligence of the people doing it.
What you say in a job interview matters. So does how you look saying it. A 2022 meta-analysis spanning 70 years of research finds that professional appearance, eye contact, and head movement are among the strongest predictors of interview ratings — and that structural safeguards do surprisingly little to change that.
Intelligence and personality have long been treated as separate domains. A sweeping 2022 meta-analysis of over 160,000 participants finds they are more meaningfully connected than most research has suggested — but only if you know where to look.
Growth Mindset Interventions: What Does the Evidence Actually Show? Growth mindset programs have spread through classrooms worldwide on the promise of large gains in student achievement. A rigorous 2022 meta-analysis of 97,000 students suggests the evidence behind that promise is far thinner than advertised.Growth mindset programs have spread through classrooms worldwide on the promise of large gains in student achievement. A rigorous 2022 meta-analysis of 97,000 students suggests the evidence behind that promise is far thinner than advertised.
The Problem The study of wisdom in psychology has long suffered from a curious irony: the field itself has lacked the very
In a previous blog, we introduced the concept of optimal performance, the alignment between ones lived reality and a sense of well-being. In
This article tackles boxing and depression, in order to understand this interaction, we need to know more about depression before explaining how it interelates with boxing. Depression is the world’s most prominent non-communicable disease. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), depression is the leading cause of disability in the US and Canada, ahead of coronary heart disease, cancer and AIDS. Not surprisingly, mood disorders are a focal point for psychiatric work.
At Spartans, we define optimisation as follows: when the external reality matches the individual's internal subjective experience and goals. The graph has two axes. Subjective well-being is how a person feels about themselves and their emotional, mental and physical well-being. The other axis is their external reality—their alignment between their hoped-for and experienced life. Optimisation, the goal Spartans has for its members, is when a positive emotional state matches a positive external reality. When the subjective experience and external reality are both positive, a person is on the road to optimisation
