Genes, Temperament and Personality Disorders
Just occasionally you come to believe it has all been worthwhile. A recent blog, Many of the same genes that influence our personality also affect our mental health, by Christian Jarrett, Editor of BPS Research Digest, cheered me up immensely. For those of you unaware of my credo it can be summarised as follows: People drive performance, emotions drive people, temperament drives emotions. Temperament is the genetic emotional predisposition in our personality. The best and most pr.....
Read MoreThoughts about “Learning more about yourself could help you better understand others”
The above blog “Learning …” by Marianne Cezza recently appeared in the BPS Research Digest and piqued my interest. The blog describes a study by Anne Böckler and colleagues, based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. They recruited 141 participants to take part in a three-month long contemplative training course that teaches people to take the perspective of the different aspects of their own personalities. The course was based on the Internal Fa.....
Read MoreBook Review Taming Toxic People: The science of identifying and dealing with psychopaths at work and at home by David Gillepsie
While I was overseas attending the Sixth Biannual World Congress on Emotional Intelligence Taming Toxic People was released with excellent media coverage. As one of the strengths of the 7MTF/Humm Temperament model is that it uniquely includes corporate psychopaths and I have blogged a lot about corporate psychopaths, I had to buy and read the book. While I agree with around 75% of what is contained in the book I do think I should state where I differ. Firstly as to the question whether there is.....
Read MoreWhich is more important in life: critical thinking or emotional intelligence?
I just spent three days at the Sixth Biannual International Congress on Emotional Intelligence in Oporto where the mantra was naturally that EQ was the most important thing in life. So it was somewhat refreshing to read this article: Critical thinking skills are more important than IQ for making good decisions in life. The article describes a study that discussed whether it was better to have a modest IQ and navigate life wisely, or to have a high IQ and yet make clangers that leave your peers .....
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