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The Personality at Work Blog

Unique insights into all things personality

The difference between ‘Psychology’ and ‘psychology’
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The difference between ‘Psychology’ and ‘psychology’

We are applied psychologists really, we meet people at work, in a bar or restaurant, at parties and we make judgments about them and…we get it wrong! When people teach ‘Psychology,’ (note the uppercase ‘P’) it is often as an academic study, learning all the theories and models rather than focusing on understanding the people around us. It’s like nurses learning...

Is it right to ‘put people in a box?’
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Is it right to ‘put people in a box?’

If we take a humanistic approach to classifying individuals, then we find there are 7.888 billion unique personalities in the world, thus making it impossible to even attempt to characterise people.

Can people change, I mean really change?
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Can people change, I mean really change?

How often have you heard, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” And the answer, of course is, “You can but it depends if the old dog want’s to learn them.”

How Hawthorne shone a light on workplace motivation
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How Hawthorne shone a light on workplace motivation

The Hawthorne Studies were a series of influential experiments that revolutionised our understanding of workplace psychology. Learn about the history, methodology, and the profound implications of the