Your digital footprint may reveal more about your personality than you realise. A 2024 meta-analysis of both human perception and machine learning studies finds meaningful but imperfect accuracy, with humans performing at least as well as algorithms on average.
What actually changes what people do? A comprehensive synthesis of meta-analyses finds that the most popular intervention strategies, targeting knowledge and attitudes, are the least effective. The approaches that work best are those that make desired behaviours easier to enact.
Studies You Should Know: General Cognitive Ability and Job Performance: A Contemporary Reassessment The Question Few findings in industrial and organisational psychology have
What does the average surgeon, teacher, or software engineer look like in terms of personality? A 2024 study mapping 263 occupations across 68,000 people provides the most comprehensive answer yet and finds that the details matter more than the headlines.
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.
Sackett, P.R., & Walmsley, P.T. (2014). Which personality attributes are most important in the workplace? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 5, 538-551.
In a previous post, I presented arguments for whether traits do exist at all. The leading proponent of this is the likes
