There are different kinds of people in the world – we’re all aware of that, sometimes painfully so – and especially when our own “commonsense” way of doing things collides with someone else’s interpretation of sensible behavior. “No right-minded person would behave that way,” we tell ourselves… and anybody else who’ll listen. Unfortunately, we’re not [...]

Over the centuries, experts have categorized personalities according to a wide variety of systems. One of the more recent (and useful) of these is the unlikely but surprisingly effective “True Colors” system. Though it has only four divisions, and you’d think that’s not enough to cover the seemingly endless varieties of human behavior, many professionals [...]

Maybe you’ve seen kids growing up in the same family, and yet, despite having virtually identical influences, they’re as different as chalk and cheese. This is so common it shouldn’t even surprise us any more, and yet I still hear folks remarking on it. Somehow such folks seem to expect kids to be cookie-cuttered out [...]

The study of personality types is fascinating territory, especially when we start learning to use the way different types interact with each other. For example, have you ever felt that someone you know – perhaps your partner – can sometimes act uncomfortably clingy or maybe just too damn helpful? Maybe they’re not really. Maybe they’re [...]