A few years ago, if you asked someone to define themselves in four letters, they might have given you their university acronym or a stock ticker symbol. Today, those four letters are more likely to be ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Ask Erin Mantz why she loves personality tests, and she’ll tell you she’s a Pisces, an only child, and an ...

The Enneagram, to its subscribers and skeptics, is different from other personality tests. Unlike attachment theory, which was founded by psychologist and psychiatrist John Bowlby in the mid-20th ...

Personality tests have become increasingly popular. From hiring to dating, they promise to help us understand who we are and how we are similar, or different, to others. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Personality tests are often treated as objective assessments of one's innermost intentions. People relish using their results as justification for their less understandable impulses. There is ...