There was a period in the 2010s when personality quizzes were inescapable. Like One Direction’s boppy tunes, their presence was widespread. Pottermore’s house-sorting, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator’s 16 ...

The importance of physical attractiveness in mate selection is well-documented (e.g. Hill, 1945; Buss, 1989; Swami et al., 2009). In choosing a romantic partner, physical attraction is not only ...

Personality tests are often treated as objective assessments of one's innermost intentions. People relish using their results as justification for their less understandable impulses. There is ...

A personality test is an instrument designed to elicit a response that may reveal someone’s “personality” – that is, their patterns of behaving and thinking across different situations. These tests ...