Influence & Personality

In this area, we've compiled a series of articles on personality types, how we are affected by the traits of our personality, and how people influence each other, be it through 'brainwashing', roles or language...

Take the free Personality Test

See what Freudian type you are here

Does your Personality Type affect your health?

Read about Freidman and Rosenman's personality types

Influencing people

A Look At The Authoritarian Personality

How Adorno's Fascist Scale study explains it. Authoritarian Personality

A Guide to Influence

How do groups force us to conform? What does Zimbardo's prison study in 1971 tell us about human rights violations in Iraq, 2003? Take a tour of social influences here

Brainwashing - is it possible?

Where did it start, how does it work? Brainwashing

The Truth About Truth Drugs

What did the CIA's MK-ULTRA project tell us about truth drugs, and are they effective? Find out here

Influence of Language
How does the media's choice of words influence the way we think?

Handedness: What are you?

Find out what makes people left handed and why

How many famous left-handers do you know?

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Personality Types (Friedman & Rosenman): Personality types according to Freidman and Rosenman.
Personality Type Test
Influence
Asch: Social Influence, Conforming in Groups: The Asch conformity experiments were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.
Authoritarian Personality: How Theodor Adorno's F-scale aimed to identify fascism and authoritarian personality.
Authority: Adorno's F-Scale revisited.
Brainwashing: Brainwashing, its origins and its use in Cults and media.
Famous Left Handers: Information on famous left handed people.
Handedness: What makes us left handed? Evolution from war, brain hemispheres or something else.
Personality and Influence: Area on human personality, how it affects our health, influencing people, and personlity tests.