Raymond Cattell is one of the founding fathers of the trait perspective in personality psychology. He is widely known for his role in the development of factor analysis, a statistical tool for ...

Personality tests abound on the internet, from the official (Myers-Briggs) to the fizzier (“What Your Favorite Boy Band Says About You”). With countless tests to take and even more results to receive, ...

Journal of Business and Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Jun., 2004), pp. 465-481 (17 pages) Leadership theory has long sought to find traits associated with effective leadership. This study uses the ...

Although there is growing evidence of links between the cortisol stress response and personality, the nature of the relationships and the underlying mechanisms require further clarification. The ...