Emily Noyer, a Ph.D. student in psychology at UC Davis, is testing how our personalities and the people around us affect our chances of recovery when illness or injury turn life upside down.
A new study in psychology used advanced statistical modeling to chart loneliness and social isolation as older adults move through stages of cognitive impairment and mortality. The results suggest that loneliness plays a much stronger role in cognitive impairment and shorter life spans than social isolation on its own.
Richard Robins is among the 2025 honorees of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the world’s largest association of social and personality psychologists.
The Big Five inventory of personality traits is the only scientifically supported model of human personality endorsed by scientists and scientific societies. Take this test to get your scores on the Big Five and learn what they mean about your personality.
New research in psychology finds that our personalities actually change from moment to moment, and that the people closest to us are more likely than we are to notice. The study combined frequent self-reported Big Five inventories with ratings from participants’ friends and family to build a holistic understanding of people’s personalities in everyday life.
People with personality traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion and positive affect are less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with neuroticism and negative affect, according to a new analysis by researchers at the University of California, Davis and Northwestern University.
