Sublime

For the bulk of human history, the most learned members of our species have wildly underestimated the human brain’s capabilities. This is understandable, since your brain occupies only about 2 percent of your body mass, and it looks like a blob of gray gelatin. Ancient Egyptians deemed it a useless organ and tugged it out of dead pharaohs through t

For example, the fifteen most extraverted women’s faces were merged into one image that reflected what was common to all of them. When judges rated these combined images they were surprisingly good at picking up the correct personality traits, especially for the images of women; the findings suggest, as the physiognomists had argued long ago, that

The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background, is, however incorrigible it may se

Les psychologues étudient souvent la personnalité en en mesurant les dimensions de base telles que les «cinq grands traits» suivants: névrosisme, extraversion, ouverture à l’expérience, caractère agréable (être gentil et chaleureux) et caractère consciencieux292

“People respond to questionnaires in a way that makes them look better. I don’t care about lies. I’m interested in facts,” he has said.

The inventor of Self-Verification Theory, Bill Swann