PersonalityApr 23, 2026
Personality, identity, and Artificial Intelligence: a grand challenge
Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming personality research. Personality is expressed in a world in which individual ...
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PersonalityApr 16, 2026
DBT skills + parent training for preschool parents with emotion dysregulation and substance misuse
Parenting and substance use recovery often intersect, as many adults accessing substance use disorder (SUD) treatment are also parents. Critically, parental SUDs are a risk factor for poorer parenting behaviors, with…
PersonalityApr 14, 2026
Psychometric properties of the Spanish structured interview of personality organization revised (STIPO-R) in a clinical and community sample
The diagnosis of personality disorders (PD) remains challenging in clinical practice. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders reviewed (DSM-5-TR) proposes an alternative diagnostic hybrid model (AMPD)…
PersonalityMar 30, 2026
Mentalization as a mediator of the effects of early life stress on borderline personality disorder in a South Korean clinical sample
Background Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental condition characterized by instability in self-image, emotions, and interpersonal relationships. Within mentalization models of BPD, the interaction…
PersonalityMar 23, 2026
Experiences in close relationships, interpersonal trust and OXTR expression in individuals with childhood maltreatment
Social cognition is essential for forming and maintaining intimate relationships. Individuals with a history of childhood maltreatment (CM) often show impairments in interpersonal functioning, including trust and…
PersonalityMar 10, 2026
When It Comes to Personality, How Can We Count the Ways?
The idea that people differ in fundamental ways of feeling, thinking, and acting goes back to ancient times. From the classic ...
PersonalityMar 9, 2026
Making Sense of Character Strengths
A surge of attention has emerged on this concept called character strengths, a phrase that implies a special, potent form of ...
PersonalityMar 9, 2026
Evaluating a brief MBCT programme for non-suicidal self-injury in individuals with BPD: a within-subject pre–post pilot study
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is highly prevalent among individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and a robust predictor of future suicide attempts and death. Access to comprehensive treatments such as…
PersonalityMar 6, 2026
Fluctuations of dissociation and inner tension during inpatient dialectical behavior therapy: associations with self-injury and suicidal ideation
Background In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), monitoring inner tension and state dissociation is considered helpful for understanding a patient’s affective and behavioral responses, especially regarding self-harming…
PersonalityFeb 12, 2026
How specific are affective and attachment instability to adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury? A comparison with adolescents with major depression
Background Affective and interpersonal instability are suggested to underlie adolescent non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). However, previous research has not directly compared adolescents with NSSI to those with…
PersonalityFeb 12, 2026
Pathology of the self: a network analysis of personality functioning, narcissistic vulnerability, mentalizing, and epistemic trust across trauma profiles
Trauma exposure impairs personality functioning, mentalizing, and epistemic trust, yet the mechanisms linking these processes remain unclear. Using network analysis, we examined how narcissistic traits, personality…
PersonalityFeb 9, 2026
Estimating and learning personality traits of and from women with borderline personality disorder
Background Accurately perceiving and learning about others’ personalities is crucial for successful social relationships. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is marked by unstable interpersonal dynamics, an unstable…
PersonalityFeb 5, 2026
Attachment orientations and borderline personality features: the mediating role of difficulties in interpersonal emotion regulation
Insecure attachment predicts borderline personality (BP), with emotion regulation widely recognized as a key mediator of this association. While interpersonal difficulties are central to BP, most studies have focused on…
PersonalityFeb 3, 2026
Understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)
Narcissistic personality disorder involves inflated self-worth and a lack of empathy. Narcissistic traits like arrogance and ...
PersonalityJan 31, 2026
Which Art Movement Matches Your Personality? A Psychologist Explains
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday ...
PersonalityJan 28, 2026
What Is Personality?
From eccentric and introverted to boisterous and bold, the human personality is a complex and colorful thing. Personality refers ...
PersonalityJan 26, 2026
Does Personality Similarity Matter at Work?
Intuitively, we know that the personalities of our boss and the people we work with affect us. Some colleagues feel instantly ...
PersonalityJan 24, 2026
Do You Have ‘Aquarius Traits’? A Psychologist Explains How To Tell
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday ...
PersonalityJan 16, 2026
When Personality Dictates Policy, the Psychology of Fascism
Some political worldviews are based on a philosophy, or at least on certain economic or social principles. Communist governments ...
PersonalityJan 14, 2026
The Dark Tetrad of Personality - Psychopathy, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Sadism, and their Relationship with Psychopathological and Health-Promoting Factors
The Dark Tetrad of personality is a relatively new approach to factors considered socially aversive, including such personality ...
PersonalityJan 7, 2026
Psychometric properties of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale- Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF 2.0) in women with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Women with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are also often diagnosed with personality disorders, yet research on reliable and valid assessments of personality pathology in this population has been limited…
PersonalityDec 26, 2025
A laboratory task to assess epistemic mistrust: behavioral evidence for mediation between childhood trauma and borderline personality features in young adults
Background Disruptions in epistemic trust have been recognised as key sequelae of trauma and as markers of vulnerability to borderline personality pathology. However, prior research has relied primarily on self-reports…
PersonalityDec 24, 2025
Emotion dysregulation and parent emotion socialization in mothers with and without borderline pathology
Mothers with borderline personality disorder face unique challenges in parenting, as borderline symptoms have been shown to negatively affect parent-child relationships. These challenges can lead to non-supportive…
PersonalityDec 24, 2025
Mapping caregivers’ distress: a network analysis of burden, meaning in life, and mental health in families facing suicidal behavior
Suicide profoundly impacts not only individuals but also their relatives, who often experience high levels of burden, distress, and isolation. Yet the interplay between risk and protective factors in this population…
PersonalityDec 19, 2025
People with personality disorders often use language differently – our research reveals how
Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...
PersonalityDec 18, 2025
‘Personality test’ shows how AI chatbots mimic human traits – and how they can be manipulated
Researchers have developed the first scientifically validated ‘personality test’ framework for popular AI chatbots, and have ...
PersonalityDec 18, 2025
A pilot randomized controlled study of a brief mentalizing enhancement intervention for borderline personality disorder
Impairments in mentalizing, the capacity for understanding mental states, are central to borderline personality disorder (BPD). This study examined a brief mentalizing intervention aiming to enhance the capacity and…
PersonalityDec 16, 2025
Case Report: A possible association between significant dissociations after esketamine treatment and histrionic personality disorder
Dissociation is a complex and transdiagnostic phenomenon defined as a disruption of, or discontinuity in, the normal, subjective ...
PersonalityDec 16, 2025
The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers: an evaluation of feasibility and acceptability among mothers with borderline personality disorder
Background Extant data suggest that children of mothers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are at risk for a variety of poor psychosocial outcomes, including psychopathology. One avenue for interrupting…
PersonalityDec 10, 2025
A comparison of borderline personality features and level of personality functioning in explaining mentalizing capacity
Numerous studies have demonstrated that the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) outperforms traditional categorical nosology (i.e., Section II) in predicting an array of salient clinical outcomes. However…