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Home » Understanding personalityThis article will not only focus on understanding people who put you down but also on how to identify them. There are few things worse in life than accomplishing something amazing, sharing it with your loved ones in the expectation that they’ll be excited too, but realizing they don’t really share your …
Home » Understanding personality All of us have had to deal with nosey people at some point in our lives. Noseyness is when someone whom we don’t want to interfere in our life does so. This unsolicited interference often manifests as questions and comments relating to our personal matters such as our health, career, and relationships. …
Home » Understanding personalityMost people are conformists who conform to the social norms of their respective societies. After all, man is a social animal, right? Conforming to your social group helps you stay in the good books of your group members. And when you’re in the good books of your group members, they’re likely to …
Home » Understanding personalityPassive-aggressive behaviour is often subtle and so can be difficult to identify, detect and change. So let’s first look at how a typical passive-aggressive person behaves and then we can go about understanding it. Passive-aggressive behaviour of Jane Jane had a troubled relationship with almost everyone in her life. She never really …
Home » Understanding personalityThis article will explore the psychology of controlling people, how fear makes people controlling and how to change this behaviour pattern. Angela’s mother was a total control freak. It seemed like she wanted to control each and every aspect of Angela’s life. She enquired about Angela’s whereabouts all the time, chaperoned her …
Home » Understanding personalityAs he walked toward her with a bouquet of roses in his hands, mentally picturing himself giving her the bouquet and then kissing her, he slipped on a banana peel and hit the ground with a loud thud. He probably broke a rib or two and had to be immediately hospitalized. However, the …
Home » Understanding personalityAll of us have been on the receiving end of hatred at some point in our lives. No matter how nice you think you are, I’m sure you’ve got some haters too- haters that you know of and haters that you don’t know of, at least not yet. In this article, we explore the psychology of haters. Hatred …
Home » Understanding personalityAre we all the same? Or are we all different? People seem to argue over this topic endlessly. Consider the following scenarios: He says he doesn’t want attention. But did you look at his face when he was called up to speak? He clearly loved the attention. We all love attention. We’re …
Home » Understanding personalityPersonality tests are found almost everywhere on the internet these days but do they really work? While some of them may be a bit credible, others that tell you that your fingernails can tell a lot about you are just plain stupid. People with a decent level of self-understanding rarely go for such …
Home » Understanding personalityBirth order is one of the strongest factors that influence the type of personality traits we develop. Birth order means the position that we hold among our siblings in accordance with the time of our birth. You might be, for example, the first-born (eldest child), the second-born (middle child), the last-born (youngest child) or …