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When Kris Huston applied for her job as director of human resources at the Blood Center of Iowa, in Des Moines, she was asked to take a personality-assessment test. She was skeptical. In her 15-year ...

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A new study suggests that it might be possible to personalize care for people with bipolar disorder, using the results of detailed personality tests. It finds that such tests might help identify ...

The phrase attributed to circus master P.T. Barnum that “there’s a sucker born every minute” formed the basis for a classroom demonstration by Bertram Forer in 1949 showing how easy it was to turn ...