Sentence examples for personality studies from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the study of how traits arise and are integrated within a person forms a major area of personality studies.

Also during the 1930s, personality studies began to consider the broader social context in which a person lived.

Contemporary personality studies are generally empirical and based on experiments.

But that probably wouldn't work either, Dr. McCullough told me, because personality studies have identified a difference between true believers and others who attend services for extrinsic reasons, like wanting to impress people or make social connections.

Reporting in this month's issue of the journal Animal Behaviour, researchers from the University of Glasgow addressed the widespread concern that the findings of animal personality studies, so often performed on captive subjects, may be laboratory artifacts, with scant relevance to how the creatures behave in nature.

This duality may help explain the two directions that personality studies have taken: on the one hand, the study of ever more specific qualities in people, and, on the other, the search for the organized totality of psychological functions that emphasizes the interplay between organic and psychological events within people and those social and biological events that surround them.

As a personality study "Imelda" is a devastating portrait of how power begets self-delusion.

In one personality study, strongly religious people were compared with people who subscribed to more general spiritual notions, like the idea that their lives were "directed by a spiritual force greater than any human being" or that they felt "a spiritual connection to other people".

But I think it's worth waiting for the Novelty Seeking Personality study which I am sure will be a lot more fun.

A total of 142 of 158 DRAT participants agreed to take part in the personality study.

The initial evaluation will include: a clinical and neuropsychological examination, collection of behavioural symptoms data (Neuropsychiatric-Inventory scale) and their risk factors, a personality study using both a dimensional (personality traits) and categorical approach, an inventory of life events, social cognition tests and an Magnetic Resonance Imaging.