Judging personality can be explosive. Like fuel propels a jet, judging someone positively can speed a person toward her goals. A negative judgment, in contrast, can explode a person's plans, leaving ...

-- Friedrich Max Müller, the German scholar of comparative religion. There are many wisdom traditions across the world, and each has its own thoughts and rules as to judging personality, including ...

Forget ‘surveillance capitalism.’ AI-based social media monitoring could cost you a job, college admission, rental property and more – and you’ll never know how it happened. AirBnB wants to know if ...

Many job seekers are wary of personality testing. They will accept prying interviews and secretive reference checks, but baulk at having their personalities assessed. A review of studies conducted in ...

When it comes to personality, it turns out your peers probably think the same way about you as you do about yourself. When it comes to self-assessment, new U of T research suggests that maybe we do ...

Science suggests certain Myers-Briggs personality types are more likely to be high earners. But how does gender interact with your personal characteristics to determine your annual salary? Data from ...

Even so, many recruiters and job applicants are sceptical of personality tests. Recruiters often believe that their personal judgement is a sufficient basis for making selection decisions. They ...