In our search for self-knowledge, we’ve all likely taken one (or several) personality tests. The goal is to gain insights about ourselves—why we are the way we are. But are these tests any good? Do ...

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is one of the most commonly used psychological tests in the world. The test was developed by clinical psychologist Starke Hathaway and ...

Psychologists at the University of Bath, King's College London, and Cardiff have found that a common test used by doctors and researchers to measure autistic personality traits lacks reliability and ...

So imagine you have a 10 page paper due within the next week, but you’ve been bombarded with so many other assignments and responsibilities that you haven’t even written a word yet. What do you do ...

Any good test needs to demonstrate two things. Good validity (measuring what it’s supposed to measure) and reliability (stability, so that you don’t get different scores for the same person at ...

There are two types of people in the world: those who believe in the Myers-Briggs personality test and those who don't. Except that's not true. Grouping people into two, three or 16 categories, which ...