Psychology
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How poetry can light up our darker momentsIn this fast-moving technological world, lines of poetry can help people with mental illness -
So is it nature not nurture after all?In a controversial new book Robert Plomin argues that genes largely shape our personalities and that the science is now too compelling to ignore -
Personality tests are all the rage – but what do they really tell you?A new test claims to be most scientific yet – and that out of four types, most of us are Average. The thing is, we don’t really do them to find out the truth
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Myers-Briggs personality tests: what kind of person are you?The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is used by firms worldwide to test their employees. In her new book, academic Merve Emre looks at the system’s curious origins


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