Why Do Some of Us Worry Endlessly about Our Lives, While Others Sail through without a Care? What Turns One Man into a Control Freak, While His Brother Goes with the Flow? Psychologist Daniel Nettle Introduces His Latest Research into Human Personality - and (Overleaf) Gives You the Chance to Find out Who You Really Are

At some point in your life, you've probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?"), and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day, or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer, which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure something, surely it is how the person sees themselves, rather than how they actually are.

In a new book, I examine what the extent of the science underlying personality psychology really is. The answer is: more than you would think. While it has always …

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Publication information: Article title: Why Do Some of Us Worry Endlessly about Our Lives, While Others Sail through without a Care? What Turns One Man into a Control Freak, While His Brother Goes with the Flow? Psychologist Daniel Nettle Introduces His Latest Research into Human Personality - and (Overleaf) Gives You the Chance to Find out Who You Really Are. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: September 17, 2007. Page number: 2. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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