Your genes code for all your traits. Some genes are dominant and expressed if you receive a copy from one parent. Others are recessive and only apparent if you receive a copy from both parents. Genes ...

Psychologists have been studying personality for a very long time. Thinking about personality as a collection of traits goes all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome, and trait theorists such as ...

Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Key Takeaways The Big Five personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—represent broad dimensions of personality that ...