This study on the ability of introverts to respond to non-verbal communication is a great example – it's based on a dubious old personality test (EPI), and the subjects are a pretty small group of local students, so not exactly representative.
Even when psychologists are involved, we're back to dubious multiple-choice personality tests like Eysenck's Personality Inventory (EPI), a 50-year old psychology tool regarded by some modern researchers as " logically incoherent", or the laughable Myers-Brigg Personality Test.
The 1990s saw a spate of lawsuits from patients subjected to dubious treatments for multiple personality disorder they said they didn't have, and many began to believe that DID was not so much treated by psychiatrists but induced by them through the power of suggestion.
There will be a lot of other people helping him achieve this personality shift: stylists, personal advisors, PRs, agents, party promoters, and a litany of dubious hangers-on.
But that's in keeping with the character whose appeal is largely predicated on being essentially unremarkable in every respect in looks, intelligence, personality and that most dubious of designated female traits, niceness.
While the science of personality types is slightly dubious, there is some research that suggests that certain behaviors may be neurologically wired.
LeRoy also loved the self-made, the marginal, and the eccentric, some with large personalities and, at times, dubious professions.
Despite Rorschach's original claims for the validity of his test, subsequent negative research findings have led many users of projective techniques to become dubious about the role assigned the inkblots in delineating relationships between perception and personality.
First, online personality tests are always stupid, whether or not they arrive with the dubious distinction of being used by psychologists for decades.
If you maintain your bloodline has conditioned aspects of your personality and performance, you must also be open to theories about inherited characteristics that are today deemed extremely dubious.
