A new study suggests your personality traits may shape your workout preferences. Matching your fitness routine to who you are ...

Traits are the building blocks of personality. So what is a trait? In short, it’s a relatively stable way of thinking and behaving that can be used to describe a person and compare and contrast ...

It’s expected that introverts would gravitate toward solo workouts and extroverts would shine in group fitness classes, but ...

Measuring personality traits . You'll find many quizzes and tests online that claim to measure what personality type you have. Most of these are supported by very little evidence, and if you run ...

They also measured the same people on the Big Five personality traits (extraversion, openness, emotional stability, agreeableness, and conscientiousness).

The findings were backed up with a review of 12 existing studies that investigated the link between personality traits and dementia. The paper was published in the journal Biological Psychiatry.

Personality traits, identified as neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness, can predict a wide range of important outcomes such as health, happiness and ...

Having a type A personality is what you make of it. The traits can be good or bad for your health, depending on how you use your strengths. If you tend to have stress, look for ways to improve ...

Personality traits linked with intelligence are affected by both genes and a person's environment; experiences such as travel or living abroad can increase openness to new experiences and, ...

Today, psychologists often describe personality in terms of five basic traits. The so-called Big Five are openness to experience , conscientiousness , extraversion , agreeableness , and neuroticism .