Sour in the Sun? 3 Unexpected Ways the Weather May Affect Your Mood

Warm Weather = Happy Amie Last weekend I returned from the tropics to find myself outside the San Francisco airport basically barefoot in su...

Olympics Fun: National Personality Types: Fact or Figment?

source With the summer Olympics fast approaching, and our nation's birthday on Americans' minds, July seemed an apt month to dig a l...

How to survive a break-up: Give yourself a break

Source There is no shortage of advice on how to recover from a bad break-up: keep busy, don't contact your ex, go out with friends, make...

SPSP Conference: Where social and personality psychologists come to gather

Sunny San Diego In just a few days Anna, Juli, Michael and I, as well as thousands of other social and personality psychologists, will desce...

Why you might not like when others like you.

Source Take a moment to think carefully about the answers to these questions: Do you prefer when others  dislike  you? Do you feel  bad  whe...

Friday Fun: Take a (real) personality questionnaire!!

source This post originally appeared back when PYM was just getting started. We thought our newer readers would be interested in this as w...

Narcissists know they're narcissists

source While positive self-views are generally considered healthy, adaptive, and attractive, OVERLY positive self-views often have social...

You’re a psychologist, right? What do you mean you don’t see clients?!

source Perhaps you, our most interested and involved reader, have taken a look at the “About the Bloggers/Researchers” section of Psych You...