the resources are here..

insurance was just not paying for their insureds treatment..


all on vacation while waiting for proper licensing..

this bd didn't take off as expected did it?

MENTAL HOSPITAL PHONE MENU..

revised edition..

"Hello and thank you for calling The State Mental Hospital..

Pease select from the following options menu..


If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.

If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6.

If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the line so we can trace your call.

If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be forwarded to the Mother Ship.

If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.

If you are depressed, it doesn't matter which number you press, nothing will make you happy anyway.

If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.

If you are bipolar, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep or after the beep. Please wait for the beep.

If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.

If you have low self-esteem, please hang up. Our operators are too busy to talk with you.

If you are menopausal, put the gun down, hang up, turn on the fan, lie down and cry. You won't be crazy forever."

EGG Project
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

It had been 3 years or more...seemed familiar though...not that i knew or recalled the answers and yet, the work still has to be done. i have taken a lot of these tests in the past...but, i think my IQ is 150 plus regardless. these tests only test for certain things...they don't say anything about creativity and/or intuitive minds imo...or a gazillion other types/ways one can be smart or have valuable knowledge...they tend to test for success in this society...and actually if, one scores kinda high...that more often than not, means one will have problems...ie. actually may have more problems being successful and getting along with others. folks who study these tests and the significance/meaning/import of them...like i do/like i have...find and support what i've just said fwiw.

just took the other test...seemed easier...but, it's got some tricky visual spots. these tests are not perfect...and again, they only tend to gauge particular things...and imo they don't even do that all that well. i find them interesting and fun...sometimes...but, i don't stress over them much nor do i concern myself with them much anymore. i'm much more concerned with doing things well, learning, self-improvement, helping others and making things better.

so, on this other test (The Super IQ Test...as it's called http://web.tickle.com/search/?query=iq+test&sel=0 ) i got: "your IQ score is 147" "Creative Theorist"...i think others will come up with a similar descriptive title...maybe?

that's why you got the 140 lol.. good point

if, ya do take a look at the test again...i think it's best if, we chat about it in private...just in case others want to take the test too. don't want to be too helpful...don't ya know :)

IQ test
http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiqnew/
one needs to sign-up first

Maybe i'll give this one a try later:
The Super IQ Test
Previously offered only to corporations, schools, and certified professionals, this highly accurate IQ assessment is now availa... http://web.tickle.com/tests/superiq/?test=superiqogt

I'd have to go back again and get the question, might be worth the effort to hear other sides..

They were logic questions though and I figured I knew what they were going to say and I didn't agree so I went with my own. Then on the second one that was almost identical, I hedged my bet and went the way I thought they would go.. lol

oh.. a flat on guessed on a couple of the visual ones..

Which ones?....some are pretty tricky....one of the visual ones is damn hard imo.

Your IQ score is

124. Not my fault they have a couple of answers wrong on that test. :)

Yeah, it is a good test.

I took it a few years back...if, one has the ability and works out the problems they will score better. Anyway: "You scored 140 on Tickle's IQ test". I got a 140. Still room for improvement...i didn't give enough thought and effort to 2 problems...one was rather easy...the other one was trickier.

Oh well, be thorough and check your work...and keep learning :)

I.Q. test

Try it... it's fun.

http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/index2.jsp

Congratulations, Chris!
Your IQ score is 133

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.

Your Intellectual Type is Insightful Linguist. This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. And that's just some of what we know about you from your test results.

Here's an interesting site:

http://similarminds.com/forums/index.php?sid=da173a09910a24ad1d183957b94c5c54

Interesting tidbits...

Demographics from The Personality Questionnaire


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We gather voluntary demographic information from individuals who take The Personality Questionnaire. We have generated some interesting statistical information from data we have gathered thus far. Data presented on this page is derived from a sample size of 6,000 individuals who took The Personality Questionnaire and offered voluntary information.

All of the data presented here has been gathered from people who have taken The Personality Questionnaire on this website. Consequently, it reflects data about the internet community, rather than the public at large.



Personality Type Frequency
(From highest to lowest, gathered from results of 22,000 questionnaires)
ISFJ (11.9%)
INFP (11.4%)
ENFP (11.3%)
ISTJ (8.8%)
ESFJ (8.6%)
ESTJ (7.1%)
ISFP (5.9%)
INFJ (5.9%)
ESFP (5.4%)
ENFJ (4.3%)
INTP (4.0%)
ENTP (3.6%)
ISTP (3.1%)
INTJ (2.9%)
ESTP (2.8%)
ENTJ (2.2%)

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Personality Temperament Frequency
(From highest to lowest)
The SJ "Guardian" Temperament (36%)
The NF "Idealist" Temperament (33%)
The SP "Artisan" Temperament (18%)
The NT "Rational" Temperament (13%)

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Highest Education Level
(From highest to lowest)
The scale used to compute these statistics is from 1 to 6, with 1 being lowest (did not graduate high school) and 6 being highest (PhD or equivalent).
ENTJ (4.12)
INTJ (3.93)
ESTJ (3.83)
ISTJ (3.78)
ESTP (3.73)
INFJ (3.72)
ENFP (3.69)
INTP (3.69)
INFP (3.67)
ESFP (3.63)
ENFJ (3.60)
ESFJ (3.62)
ISTP (3.59)
ISFJ (3.58)
ENTP (3.54)
ISFP (3.52)

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Highest Average Annual Household Income
(From highest to lowest)
ENTJ (84,434)
ESTJ (76,238)
ESFJ (74,882)
INTJ (72,043)
ENFJ (71,060)
ISTJ (71,020)
ESTP (69,323)
ISTP (67,349)
ENFP (66,210)
INTP (64,872)
INFJ (64,372)
ISFP (64,166)
ISFJ (63,870)
ESFP (63,281)
ENTP (62,960)
INFP (61,565)

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Highest Percentage Married
(From highest to lowest)
ESFJ (53%)
ISTJ (51%)
ENTJ (51%)
ESTJ (50%)
ISFJ (48%)
INTJ (44%)
ISTP (43%)
ENFJ (40%)
ISFP (38%)
INFJ (37%)
ENTP (37%)
ENFP (36%)
INTP (35%)
ESFP (34%)
ESTP (31%)
INFP (30%)

sounds good! any idea what your basic MBTI type might be...or would you rather we respect your privacy in this regard? the choice is yours.

thanks

well, me i am from europe and running a little company(artisan)

Hmmm...still not much going on here. Hmmm.

Hmmm...what's up people? How it going? I'll be watching.

:) Just checking in. Keeping it interesting I see. We'll see what tomorrow brings Vexari...and the rest who come here too.

the river..

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg_ig.asp?message_id=11298983

when it rains it pours..

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg_ig.asp?message_id=14544335


hang in there friend..

so far so good bart..

it will all take care of it's self

in time..

Yes, this site that "tp" gave us is very good! I recommend it:

(Free) PhD-certified Personality Test: http://www.personality100.com/page/partner.xml?partnerid=SeUS&gclid=CP7p5bjYwIgCFRhLYwodVRvMLQ

This test appears to be part of this dating site: http://www.matchmore.com/ but, IMO it's a good way to get people who working on themselves or a better relationship...involved with what appears to be good dating site. Yeah, I've had experiences with dating sites too :) Both very good and very bad.

Anyone else having a problem with posts read on iHub not looking like they've been read...after one's done so? Know what I mean? For me, this started yesterday. Maybe I can fix it by altering my security settings. Maybe iHub will fix it sometime...soon?

Seems sensible to me. This is a very deep and yet very important area of study...for the betterment of one's self, relationships and the society as a whole by extension.

this has been my formula in life..

what did you think about my four step approach?

Yes. It can help all who seek to understand themselves and others. For me, one of the most important realizations that I've had from all this recently is that much of the communication problems I've had...essentially my entire life...stem from the difference(s) between Sensing and Intuition. Supposedly, and I agree, Intuitive types need other intuitives to really be understood well and to have good communication. IE. that's why my real world friend base has been so small to none existent. I didn't know where the real problem was. Intelligence and character issues have always been problematic too...but, now I'm much better aware and focussed on who and where I need to look for and go to find people I'm most likely to get along very well with and hopefully, develop friendships and perhaps more.

Good stuff IMO. Also FWIW...the knowledge is by no means complete here...in this subject. Improvements can be made...more work and better tests will most likely be coming...as long as folks continue working on these human relations issues. I will.

the four step approach..

first time meeting in the consumers environment ie home or a friendly environment to the approached..

1. warm up ~ ask questions that enable people to talk about themselves and life experiences..

2. information ~ ask questions that enable people to talk about themselves as it applies to the subject matter ie why you are there..

3. presentation ~ educate them as to how they can accomplish their goals, vision, as it relates to what they have already tried..

~ show them the way ~

4. close ~ if stages 1 through 3 have been done properly, there really is no close..


make sense?


this can also be applied to one's personal life however, one must always be true to one's self and others whether business or personal..


this will serve as a benchmark to everlasting relationships..

barter..what impresses me about the board topic..

can be used in real life to the betterment of all involved..

both personally and in business..

was in insurance sales for 20 years, had my own agency, and understanding and pinpointing types, when applied, helped the communication process to an incredible degree..


a must to include in the training process, increased productivity many times over..

indeed, the more angles looked at the more interesting this becomes..

Yes, they are. EOM.

Interesting....

Personality Scores and Descriptions

Score (0-100)

Personality Dimension

62

Extraversion
High scorers tend to be sociable and outgoing. They prefer to be around people most of the time. High Extraversion is associated with being seen as more popular and more socially competent, having more friends and dating partners, being accident-prone, taking more study breaks, engaging in thrill-seeking and delinquent behavior, better performance in sales and management jobs, higher job satisfaction, earning a higher salary, having more leadership roles, attending more parties, exercising more frequently, belonging to a fraternity, playing a sport, smoking cigarettes, consuming more alcohol, and preference for hip-hop, soul, funk, electronic, rock, and heavy metal music.

Low scorers tend to be reserved and serious. They often prefer to be alone or with a few close friends. Low Extraversion is associated with engaging in fewer risky behaviors.

77

Agreeableness
High scorers tend to be compassionate, good-natured, and eager to cooperate and avoid conflict. High Agreeableness is associated with being seen as more socially competent, with greater religiosity, greater willingness to help a stranger, and preference for pop, country, and religious music.

Low scorers tend to be hardheaded, skeptical, proud, and competitive. They tend to express their anger directly. Low Agreeableness is associated with having more dating partners, with smoking cigarettes, driving fast, and holding prejudicial views.

Agreeableness usually increases with age. Women tend to score higher on Agreeableness than do men.

82

Conscientiousness
High scorers tend to be responsible and well-organized. They have high standards and work hard to achieve their goals. High Conscientiousness is associated with earning higher grades, scoring higher on verbal intelligence tests, better school attendance, spending more time studying and completing household chores, sleeping more, being more religious, better performance in most jobs, and exercising more frequently.

Low scorers tend to act spontaneously rather than making plans. They may pay little attention to details, are not very well-organized, and can sometimes be careless. Low Conscientiousness is associated with risky behavior, disciplinary problems, being accident-prone, more job changes, consuming more alcohol, and receiving more traffic tickets.

Conscientiousness usually increases with age.

29

Neuroticism
High scorers tend to be sensitive, emotional, and prone to experience feelings that are upsetting. High Neuroticism is associated with exercising more frequently.

Low scorers tend to be secure, generally relaxed even under stressful conditions, and worry little. Low Neuroticism is associated with better physical and psychological health.

Neuroticism usually decreases with age. Women tend to score higher on Neuroticism than do men.

70

Openness to Experience
High scorers tend to be open to new experiences. They have broad interests and are imaginative. High Openness is associated with earning better grades, scoring higher on general intelligence tests, playing a musical instrument, holding liberal political opinions, and with preference for rock, heavy metal, classical, jazz, blues, and folk music.

Low scorers tend to be down-to-earth, practical, traditional, and pretty much set in their ways. Low Openness is related to earning a higher salary, holding conservative political opinions, and having prejudicial views of minority groups.

Big Five Personality Feedback Form

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This is a measure of the Big Five dimensions of adult normal personality. This inventory does not address psychological problems or ills, but rather helps to describe how you tend to adapt to your world every day. A description of each dimension is provided below, followed by an interpretation of your scores within these dimensions. Raw scores are on a scale of 1 to 5.



Style Descriptions

Expressive Style refers to your desire for social interaction, your general level of physical energy, and your tendency to express positive emotions (e.g., joy and excitement).

Interpersonal Style refers to how you generally feel about others, how connected you feel to them, and how you act toward them. Your style can also indicate the level of intimacy that you prefer in relationships.

Work Style typifies your attitudes about dedication to activities at work, home, and in leisure. Your work style may also refer to how you approach challenges, what sort of plans you devise, and the focus you place on your responsibilities.

Emotional Style is the extent to which you typically experience and express negative emotions (e.g., stress, frustration, self-doubt).

Intellectual Style refers to the extent that you tend to embrace new ideas, activities, and approaches to art, science, and everyday life.



Your Styles

Expressive Style 1.90
(Low) People who score similar to you in Expressive Style tend to value privacy and keep to themselves in social situations. You probably do not express unbridled enthusiasm very often, and would rather focus on more tranquil, mental pursuits than physical activities. You may consider yourself quiet and shy, and remain passive in social situations.

Interpersonal Style 3.30
(Medium) People who score similar to you on Interpersonal Style tend to genuinely care about other people, and are generally cooperative and dependable in working for the group’s benefit. You may, however, at times pursue your own desires at the expense of another, only to later wonder why you were not more compassionate.

Work Style 4.20
(High) People who score similar to you on Work Style tend to value commitments and responsibility and take promises very seriously. You may prefer to preserve tradition and follow rules. You are probably organized, punctual, and reliable. Because you may consider yourself to be on top of things, it may be hard for you to delegate tasks and you may resist others’ proposed changes.

Emotional Style 3.40
(Medium) People who score similar to you on Emotional Style tend to be stable under stress but not without a more emotional side. You may either experience strong reactions but tend to control your expression when you’re around other people, or experience strong reactions infrequently so you tend to feel you’re justified when you do express your emotions. You may be moody, irritable, or tense at times, but probably keep your feelings in check most of the time.

Intellectual Style 5.00
(High) People who score similar to you on Intellectual Style tend to resist orders, and prefer to break new ground and challenge tradition at every turn. You may be creative, imaginative, and inquisitive about your world. You are probably willing to explore all sides of the most complicated and controversial issues, and may be most frustrated by the slow pace of change.


Return to Planet Personality: http://www.planetpersonality.com/index.htm
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Disclaimer: This test is not equivalent to a clinical diagnosis. If you are concerned about the feedback you or a loved one received on this test, please consult a trained counselor.

Hogan's Big Seven - short IPIP version

This is a variant of the Big Five based on Robert Hogan's HPI assessment tool. It measures seven major dimensions of personality by theoretically splitting two Big 5 dimensions. Extraversion is split into Ambition and Sociability. Openness to Experience is split into School Success and Intellectance. This model of general personality tends to fit better than the Big Five with how individuals see their own personalities. Further, it is widely used in personnel selection settings. Hence, it is a highly-recommended test for self-assessment and getting an understanding what aspects of personality are important in the working world.

Scoring: You will be given your seven overall scores with a brief discussion of each.

Link: http://www.planetpersonality.com/cgi-bin/bfi.pl

Big Five Personality Traits Survey

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This scale measures the 5 basic personality styles that differentiate individual styles of behavior across cultures and people. Once you are finished with the test, you will be provided with personalized feedback based upon your answers.

This test takes approximately 5-7 minutes to complete.


ps. I haven't taken it yet. -bart-

Personality Planet: A Global Perspective on Individual Differences

About Planet Personality

Planet Personality aims to promote personality psychology through the internet by providing self-assessment tools that allow individuals to come to a better understanding of themselves. We provide background information with regards to origins, development, and purpose of various personality assessment tools. We also aim to provide accurate, concise, and scientifically valid interpretations of personality assessments in manner which is accessible to the widest audience possible.

Link: http://www.planetpersonality.com/

Your Personality | Free online personality tests and quizes

Learn more about your personality, relationships, attachment style, and abilities.

Participation is free and your personalized results are provided instantly

Welcome to yourPersonality.net. This site provides a number of on-line personality and close relationships tests, experiments, and demonstrations that you can take to learn more about your self and the way you relate to others. Each test is designed to provide you with customized feedback based on your responses. Participation is free, informative, and fun!

Link: http://www.yourpersonality.net/

My results: Your Feedback

The California Child Q-Set (CCQ) Link to this test: http://www.personalitylab.org/tests/ccq_self.htm

The questionnaire you have just completed is the California Child Q-Set, or CCQ, an instrument developed by Jack and Jeanne Block (1980). The original goal of the CCQ was to provide psychologists with a tool for comprehensively describing the personalities of children and adolescents. Avshalom Caspi and colleagues (1992) reworded some of the CCQ items so that this measure can now be easily used by people who are not professional psychologists. Additionally, recent research has shown that the CCQ can be effectively used to describe the personalities of adults.

The Big Five

The “Big Five” is the most widely agreed-upon model of personality structure used by psychologists today. It proposes that the most basic dimensions of personality are captured by a set of five broad trait domains: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. Scores these five personality dimensions, as well as descriptions of people who score high and low on each of these traits, are presented in the table below.

Personality Scores and Descriptions

Score (0-100)
Personality Dimension

47
Extraversion
High scorers tend to be sociable and outgoing. They prefer to be around people most of the time. High Extraversion is associated with being seen as more popular and more socially competent, having more friends and dating partners, being accident-prone, taking more study breaks, engaging in thrill-seeking and delinquent behavior, better performance in sales and management jobs, higher job satisfaction, earning a higher salary, having more leadership roles, attending more parties, exercising more frequently, belonging to a fraternity, playing a sport, smoking cigarettes, consuming more alcohol, and preference for hip-hop, soul, funk, electronic, rock, and heavy metal music.

Low scorers tend to be reserved and serious. They often prefer to be alone or with a few close friends. Low Extraversion is associated with engaging in fewer risky behaviors.

69
Agreeableness
High scorers tend to be compassionate, good-natured, and eager to cooperate and avoid conflict. High Agreeableness is associated with being seen as more socially competent, with greater religiosity, greater willingness to help a stranger, and preference for pop, country, and religious music.

Low scorers tend to be hardheaded, skeptical, proud, and competitive. They tend to express their anger directly. Low Agreeableness is associated with having more dating partners, with smoking cigarettes, driving fast, and holding prejudicial views.

Agreeableness usually increases with age. Women tend to score higher on Agreeableness than do men.

86
Conscientiousness
High scorers tend to be responsible and well-organized. They have high standards and work hard to achieve their goals. High Conscientiousness is associated with earning higher grades, scoring higher on verbal intelligence tests, better school attendance, spending more time studying and completing household chores, sleeping more, being more religious, better performance in most jobs, and exercising more frequently.

Low scorers tend to act spontaneously rather than making plans. They may pay little attention to details, are not very well-organized, and can sometimes be careless. Low Conscientiousness is associated with risky behavior, disciplinary problems, being accident-prone, more job changes, consuming more alcohol, and receiving more traffic tickets.

Conscientiousness usually increases with age.

35
Neuroticism
High scorers tend to be sensitive, emotional, and prone to experience feelings that are upsetting. High Neuroticism is associated with exercising more frequently.

Low scorers tend to be secure, generally relaxed even under stressful conditions, and worry little. Low Neuroticism is associated with better physical and psychological health.

Neuroticism usually decreases with age. Women tend to score higher on Neuroticism than do men.

80
Openness to Experience
High scorers tend to be open to new experiences. They have broad interests and are imaginative. High Openness is associated with earning better grades, scoring higher on general intelligence tests, playing a musical instrument, holding liberal political opinions, and with preference for rock, heavy metal, classical, jazz, blues, and folk music.

Low scorers tend to be down-to-earth, practical, traditional, and pretty much set in their ways. Low Openness is related to earning a higher salary, holding conservative political opinions, and having prejudicial views of minority groups.

ps. IMO, the test I took is geared for adults. Check it out if, you're interested. -bart-

Stress and Personality
by Ben Martin, Psy.D.
February 17, 2006

Individuals differ dramatically in their response to a problem or a stressor. Some people are born with a temperament that predisposes them to higher or lower levels of tolerance to stress.

Your cognitive reaction to a situation plays a role in determining how stressful a situation is to you. This reaction is characterized by your appraisal of the nature, importance and implications of the event, and by your ability to effectively manage or cope with the event.

Your emotional responses to a situation are determined by your appraisal of both the situation and your coping abilities, as well as your temperament. For example, if you tell yourself, “I can handle this,” you will have a completely different emotional response than if you say, “This is terrible. I’m going crazy.”

Experts have developed several explanations for why certain people respond more positively or negatively to stressors. These include:

Our genetic makeup, which influences health and behavior. To some degree, it is human nature to feel stressed when we aren’t sure what to do or when faced with making a difficult or frustrating decision. And, some individuals may have a heightened level of arousal in the central nervous system, causing them to react more excitedly to events and adapt more slowly.

Experiencing something unusual or surprising causes stress. Researchers studying chimpanzees found that familiar and unfamiliar objects generally did not cause stress. But familiar objects shown in unfamiliar ways scared them. This reaction appeared to be innate; it was not based on a previous experience. In addition, half of all parents whose children are afraid of water report their children always had been fearful of the water; they had not had an initial traumatic experience that precipitated their anxiety.

Sometimes stress can lead to “positive reinforcement.” When we are feeling anxious, we may get attention or sympathy from our friends or family, for example. Attention or avoidance can reward us for our negative reactions.

Other psychological theories state that stress is born from internal conflicts, such as the struggle between our true or actual self and our ideal self, between unconscious views or needs or between our image of reality and actuality. For example, for the average student who wants to go on to a high-level college, taking entrance exams may be more stressful because he is unaware that he is putting pressure on himself to go beyond his own capabilities.

Past experience may color our view and how we interpret events, in turn determining our reactions and feelings. Anxiety, for example, may be a learned response to pain or mental discomfort. If you have one bad experience on a bumpy airline trip and then begin to expect that same level of discomfort on every trip, that expectation can color the future of your travels with a misinterpretation that all air travel is bad, even though it only happened once.

More recently, some psychologists have said we actually may “think or imagine ourselves into almost any emotional state.” We are not conditioned by our experiences in life to react a certain way; rather our inner thoughts determine our feelings and generate a sense of stress or calm. Those who catastrophize events or ask “what if” with an expectation of negative outcomes, without the data to determine whether their worries are true, add stress to their lives in situations that may or may not deserve a high level of emotional, cognitive or physiological responses.

http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/02/stress-and-personality/

Understand Yourself Personality Test

Complete the questionnaire below to better understand your personality! This questionnaire has been developed by psychologists to provide a comprehensive description of personality. It can be used to rate the personalities of children, adolescents, and adults of any age.

Read our consent form, which explains the benefits of this free, anonymous test, as well as your rights.

There are no "right" or "wrong" answers, but note that you will not obtain meaningful results unless you answer the questions seriously.

These results are being used in scientific research, so please try to give accurate answers.

Your results will be displayed as soon as you submit your answers.
Directions:

Here are a number of statements that may or may not describe you. Please type a number from 1 to 9 before each statement to indicate the extent to which that statement is characteristic or uncharacteristic of you. You should rate yourself as you are now, not as you were in the past or as you expect to be in the future. Use the following rating scale:

Link to test: http://www.personalitylab.org/tests/ccq_self.htm

PersonalityLab.org
Offers free personality feedback on tests developed by research psychologists at UC Berkeley. Visitors to PersonalityLab.org can learn about their own personality, get feedback about the life goals they value most, find out if they?re skilled at predicting which couples will break up versus stay together, and more. PersonalityLab.org is completely non-commercial and contains no ads of any kind.

ps. I haven't taken this yet.

Great Ideas in Personality

How do people tend to think, feel, and behave--and what causes these tendencies? These are the questions addressed by personality theory and research.
This website deals with scientific research programs in personality psychology. They are offered as candidates for the title "great ideas"; whether they are indeed great remains an open question.
http://www.personalityresearch.org/

Personality & Individual Differences
An undergraduate psychology course

Overview
Individual difference psychology examines how people are similar and how they differ in their thinking, feeling and behaviour.
For example, people can be classified according to intelligence and personality characteristics.
People are complex, however, and there are multiple theories and evidence as to what are the prevailing aspects of psychological differences.
The general structure for this course is to study intelligence for the first 5 weeks, then personality for 10 weeks
http://www.wilderdom.com/personality/index.html

Mental Health & Psychology Resources Online


Welcome to the oldest annotated directory of online psychology and mental health resources. This directory began in 1992 and was originally published in the Usenet newsgroups; it was transferred to its current Web-based format in 1995. Every resource contained herein has been personally reviewed by Dr. Grohol.
http://psychcentral.com/resources/

Stalemate: When Couples Get Nowhere Fast

Dr. Allan N. Schwartz, LCSW, PhD


Remember the old saying about opposites attracting? Well, based on the information in this essay the conclusion is likely to be that the old saying is a myth. In fact, for most people, opposites do not attract. In the cases discussed here, not onlydo opposites not attract but they drive one another away. Think about whether you recognize any people you know?

Cases:

The following six cases are fictionalized composites.


1. One wife complains that whenever she asks her husband for help with household tasks he promises to provide that help but never gets around to it. He retorts that his wife is not accurate and that she does not allow for how busy at work he is.

2. A girl friend complains that her boy friend always reneges on anything he promises to do. She wants more of his time and he refuses, giving thousands of reasons why he can’t. Most of his reasons for not providing her with more time are that he is busy at work. He works late into the evenings, and even works on weekends. He resents her nagging. The result of his refusals is that she feels rejected and crushed. In order to please him and win his approval, she does everything for him, including washing his clothes, ironing his shirts, and bringing his suits to the cleaners. These are no small tasks since they don’t live together and she has a full time job and many chores of her own. After suffering what she perceives as his rejections, she goes home at night feeling worthless, tearful, and depressed.

3. A wife reminds her husband to purchase the airplane tickets for an important trip he must take. She wants him to make the purchase early so that he locks in the lowest airfares possible. He says he will but it never happens. For one, he keeps waiting for even better prices than are currently available. He obsessionally looks at airline tickets on the Internet and always fears that he may make the wrong choice. Ultimately, he buys the tickets at the last minute and at higher prices than if he had made the purchase earlier. When asked how this could happen, he, in his characteristic way, takes a long and circuitous verbal path to the explanation. The result is that both his therapist and wife feel extremely frustrated. One of his main characteristics is that he can never make a decision without going through a long and agonizing process.

4. A married couple argues over where to go on vacation. She knows where she wants to go but he keeps hemming and hawing. He wants to choose the best possible vacation spot. However, there are so many choices that he fears he will make the wrong choice. The time for vacation passes and they go nowhere. She is utterly frustrated with what she perceives as his passivity. What soon emerges during the sessions is that he didn’t want to spend the amount of money that the vacation would have cost. Besides, he believes she wastes money and spends too much. She complains he never gives her enough money for the groceries and home expenses.


5. A husband has lost his job. His wife, filled with anxiety about their house and their future, nags him to re-write his resume and pursue opportunities in his field. He says he will but never does. Instead, he becomes furious with her. In marriage therapy, she savagely attacks him for being utterly passive. He smiles pleasantly and admits that he is. She is left steaming and is even more mad and frustrated. However, part of his problem, according to his own report, is that his resume never looks good enough to him. He demands perfection of himself. In fact, part of the reason he lost his previous job is that he takes too long to get things done. What slows him down is his need for perfection. Despite the fact that she is usually steaming with anger at him for being so passive, she keeps most of her feelings to herself. She does not want to risk losing him by nagging and complaining too much. Depression, frustration, and hopelessness are emotions with which she is too familiar.

6. Lastly, a couple is referred for marriage counseling because they are at an impasse. They sullenly enter the office and sit opposite one another. The atmosphere in the room is thick with rage. When the wife begins to speak, she tearfully begins to explain that her husband always works and never has time for her or their children. She is now pregnant with another child. He responds with the attitude that his wife is crazy and is never satisfied with anything he does. There is no tenderness left in these two and they are at the end of their marriage. Anything that is suggested, such as they take time to get baby sitters and go out for dinner with one another, is never accomplished. He is too busy at work to take her out or to spend much time with the children. In point of fact, when she was tearfully talked about his failure to be available to her or the children during the joint sessions, he sat impassively. He was emotionally the direct opposite of his wife. She was emotionally expressive and stormy. He was cool, controlled and unemotional.

Definitions:

Do these scenarios sound familiar to you? These are just a few examples of the kinds of complaints I, as a therapist, have heard repeatedly over more than twenty years of working with couples. Some people refer to this behavior as passive-aggressive. In actuality, the men represented in each of these fictionalized case studies are examples of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder(OCPD). Women are equally afflicted with this type of personality disorder.

Some of the women in the cases above represent another type of personality disorder referred to as Dependent Personality Disorder(DPD). Men are equally capable of having this type of personality disorder.

According to the DSM 1V of the American Psychiatric Association, A Personality Disorder is defined as "an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviate markedly from what is expected of the individual's culture. It is pervasive and inflexible and remains stable over time. Personality disorders begin during early adolescence or childhood and lead to distress and impairment." In other words, an individual with a personality disorder engages in fixed and unchanging patterns of behavior.

DSM 1V Definition of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder(OCPD)

There is a pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, details, work, and the inability to spend money. All of this is at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency.

In a manner of speaking, the person with this disorder "sees individual trees, but fails to see the forest." They are so focused on details that they are blind to the "bigger picture."

DSM 1V Definition of Dependent Personality Disorder(DPD)

There is such an excessive need to be taken care of that those with this disorder become submissive and clinging. They fear separation, and making any decisions lest they anger loved ones. They cannot disagree with anyone and will go to any lengths to gain approval from others.

Discussion:

The quintessential Hollywood example of what it can be like to live with OCPD was the Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau movie, The Odd Couple, that went on to be an equally successful television series. Both the movie and television show were versions of the original Broadway Neil Simon play of the same name. The two main characters were Oscar Madison and Felix Unger. Each of them is divorced and shares an apartment in Manhattan. Felix Unger is the extremely obsessional character who demands that everything be neat and orderly with regard to the apartment, cooking, clothes, work, etc. He is also hypchondriacal and constantly worries about germs and health. Felix' obsessional preoccupations and behaviors drive Oscar, who is his opposite in every way, to the brink of either insanity or homicide. The two characters, at opposite ends of the neatness poll, get into conflicts with one another that are hysterically funny. While Felix is neat, Oscar is a slob. While Felix is heath conscious, Oscar smokes, drinks, and overeats. Felix is driven just as crazy by Oscar's behavior as Oscar is Felix’. The reason for the popularity of the play, movie and television show is that it tapped into a lot of truth about certain types of human relationships. Anyone married to an obsessional person knows just how maddening it can be to deal with them.

However, it is not amusing when someone must deal with an individual who has an obsessive personality disorder. It is even more difficult when that person has a personality disorder of his/her own. For example, two personality disordered individuals, who are headed for marital disaster, are a Dependent Personality Disorder married to an Obsessive Personality Disorder.

Why is this so?

The more an individual who is dependent asks for reassurance, the more the obsessional person refuses to provide it. Try to imagine the women in a few of the above cases attempting to get love and approval from their spouse or boy friend who is not able to give them what they want. Desperately looking for approval, the DPD asks that the OCPD show proof of love by such behaviors as being taken out to dinner, being given flowers, gifts for their birthday, or other such romantic behaviors. The OCPD may promise to do some of these things, but never actually does. When confronted with why this didn’t happen, the OCPD explains, in rational and logical terms, why it couldn’t happen. If the DPD becomes tearful and feels hurt, the OCPD responds with righteous indignation. The more emotional and desperate the dependent person becomes, the more the obsessional individual views his/her partner as out of control and insane. They simply cannot understand the outpouring of emotion or understand why this person is so angry with them. People with OCPD never see themselves as being wrong. In fact, they see others as wrong while they are always correct. The DPD, always clinging and always hopeful, continues onward, attempting to get love from this rejecting person. It is an example of the proverbial attempting to get water from a stone.

In psychotherapy, when asked by the husband or wife why the other will not meet their wishes, I often use the metaphor of the clam when referring to OCPD? The harder one attempts to open the clam shell, the tighter it pulls itself closed. Hitting it with a hammer will not work any better than attempting to use a knife to "shuck" it open. The clam remains tightly closed because it needs to. Obviously, it is protecting itself from something.

If the OCPD protects him/herself from something by remaining rigidly shut, why is the DPD stubbornly pursuing love from the "clam"? Perhaps this is also a defensive type of behavior or a repetition of frustrations suffered from early childhood onward. Perhaps the child who never felt given to goes through life attempting to prove self worth by continuing to try to get love and approval from the ungiving in the hope that they will finally succeed.

Despite my years of therapeutic experience with people who have these types of personality disorders, I am always baffled by the way in which the dependent person will persist in their pursuit of love from the obsessional individual. On one occasion, a dependent woman stated that she loved her boy friend despite twenty years of stubborn refusal on his part to marry. In fact, he barely fit her into his busy and neatly organized schedule. He both worked at his career and worked out at the gym seven days per week. He had time to go to the gym but never had time to take her out to dinner, a movie, or a play. While she lived separately in her own apartment, she cleaned his as well, yet never received any acknowledgement for this. If she became angry, he would stop calling and she would become extremely anxious. Again, this went on for twenty years before she began to realize how the entire situation was causing her to feel extremely depressed.

Treatment

The nature of personality disorders is such that they are very difficult for therapists to treat. The real hope for change comes when the individuals with any type of personality disorder are so unhappy that they are willing to enter treatment. Part of the problem is that obsessional people rarely see the need for help for themselves because they blame everyone else for being unreasonable. Even when their spouses succeed in dragging them into therapy, they are often stubbornly unwilling to see the need for change.

However, there are those who do want therapy, even those who are obsessional. The types of therapy available range from marriage therapy to individual therapy based on psychodynamic or psychoanalytic principles or cognitive-behavioral therapy. Anti depressant medications do help relieve feelings of depression but do not help the person learn about and change their behaviors. Depending on the seriousness and type of personality disorder, treatment can take a very long time as people tend to resist learning how they are behaving, let alone changing that behavior.

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Chapter 6
The Meaning of Relationships

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese proverb

Your personality influences the way you relate to people and the
types of connections you prefer. In turn, the types of people you
have interacted with in your past have influenced your personality.
This chapter, and the chapters that follow, are an exploration of relationships
and the way you operate within them.

Relationships Are Everywhere

Why are relationships important? Almost everything we do, think,
and feel involves other people. According to psychologists, we
spend an average of 77 percent of our waking hours with other individuals.
Even when we are not in the presence of other people,
we spend a large portion of our time thinking about them, wondering
about them, and dreaming about them. Relationships are everywhere.
For this reason, understanding our relationships - how they form,
how they change, how they limit and benefit us - is one of the most
important topics we can learn about.
What does it mean, to have a relationship? It is not only that we
have a relationship with our partner. We also have 'relationships'
with our friends, parents, relatives, bosses, and colleagues. We even
share a relationship with the postman, the local baker, and the
waiter and waitress at the restaurant around the corner. Such interactions
can also be called 'relationships', because there are unwritten
laws and assumptions about how we are expected to interact with
these individuals.

Every social interaction can be considered a relationship.

When a waiter comes to your table, hands you a menu and announces,
"Hello, my name is Jack. I'll be your waiter today. What
would you like to drink?", you typically don't jump up, extend your
hand for a handshake, and reply, "Hello Jack, it's a pleasure to meet
you. My name is Ken". Instead, you abide by the unspoken assumptions
of the relationship. Namely, that Jack has been told by his
boss to introduce himself whenever he comes to a new table, and
his main intention is to find out what you want to eat. These unwritten
laws about what is expected in an interaction tell us how we
should act within each relationship.
Relationships are an important topic to think about not only because
of their quantity, but also because of their quality. The context
and quality of our relationships can change the meaning of each
and every experience we have. For example, part of what makes a
clumsy act or a foolish statement embarrassing is not the act or
statement itself, but having someone else observe it. The extent to
which you feel embarrassed depends not only on your personality,
but also on how comfortable or uncomfortable you feel with the
observer's personality and that observer's reaction. Similarly, what
creates the joy of accomplishment? Knowing we did something
well makes us feel good, but the thing that feels the best is when
we get to tell the story to other people and see their reactions. Would
you bother taking photographs on your next vacation if you knew
that nobody except you would look at the photographs when you
returned? Other people change the meaning of our experiences.
The third (and probably most important) reason why relationships
- particularly partnerships - are important to think about is that one
of the major influences on our physical health is how happy we are
within our relationships. Research on relationship happiness and
long-term health consequences has found that there is a direct link
between relationship compatibility and good health. An unhappy
partnership increases people's chances of getting sick by 35 percent
and shortens their lifespan by an average of four years. People who
are involved in unhappy relationships are 2.1 times more likely to
catch colds, 3.4 times more likely to seek chiropractic treatment for
back aches, and 2.7 times more likely to have stomach disorders,
compared to their peers. When we consider such statistics, it becomes
clear that thinking about the quality and nature of our relationships
is important. It is important that you surround yourself
with people you like and benefit from.

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The Biological Part of Your Personality

When you think about your personality, think of it partially as an
'automatic pilot'. A large portion of your behavior patterns are automatic
or instinctual. Already as a baby you were born with a tendency
to behave in a certain way - some babies are naturally calmer
and more easy-going, while others are crankier and more easily
upset. This predisposition can remain throughout adulthood. You
have probably noticed, for example, that some people react calmer
in an emergency or high-stress situation than others do. This comes
from the way in which their nervous systems are instinctually programmed.
When signals from the brain tell it to do so, the nervous
system tells the liver to release sugar for energy, which causes the
digestive system to slow down, opens the pupils, and tells the
adrenal glands to produce adrenaline (epinephrine). The amount of
hormones our bodies produce influences how nervous and shaky
we become. For some people, the effects are stronger and last longer
- their nervous systems are more sensitive. For other people, the
effect is minimal - their nervous systems are less sensitive. With
training and mental discipline, we can learn to reduce (or enhance)
our reactions, but the original suggestion or 'gut reaction' for how
to behave always comes from our biology.
A second example for the biological or 'instinctual' part of our
personality relates to extroversion and introversion. Scientists have
found that people's brains differ in the extent to which they become
activated and the extent to which they are able to slow themselves
down. Extroverts have a brain structure that is different from the one that
introverts have. When confronted with a traumatic experience
- such as a car crash - the extrovert's brain inhibits itself, which
means that it goes numb to the trauma and remembers little of what
happened. After the car crash, the extrovert might feel as if he or
she had blanked out. This is protective. Since extroverts don't feel
the full mental impact of the crash, they might go directly back to
driving the next day. The introvert, on the other hand, has a brain
that reacts in the exact opposite way. When in a traumatic situation,
an introvert's brain doesn't react fast enough, or doesn't shut down.
Instead, his or her brain remains highly alert and learns well, so that
the person remembers everything that happened. They might even
say that they saw the whole crash in slow motion. This has both a
positive and a negative side - introverts, since they remember more,
are less likely to make the same mistakes twice. But at the same
time, they are also more psychologically affected by the crash. They
are unlikely to want to drive again in the weeks following the accident.
How does this relate to being outgoing or shy? Imagine two
people at a party, both getting drunk and making embarrassing
statements or perhaps knocking over a table. The next morning, the
extrovert will ask you what happened, and when you tell him he
will laugh and start making arrangements for another party. The
extreme introvert, on the other hand, will remember every single
moment. But this is not just related to drinking alcohol or having
an embarrassing experience. From the instant an introvert enters
the door of any party, his or her brain instinctually becomes highly
active. He or she notices who is standing where, who is talking to
whom, and the small changes in the expression of the person to
whom he or she is talking. When many people are around, there is
a lot to pay attention to. The introvert's brain becomes over-stimulated.
After several hours, this becomes exhausting, and the introvert's
brain feels a slight aversion to attending such activities in the
near future. Introverts need a break and some time alone in order
to recover energy. This aversion, dislike, or slight fear of social
situations is then what people label as a personality trait called
'shyness'. The basis, however, is largely biological - a brain and
nervous system that is more sensitive than average. Extroverts, on
the other hand, have a brain system that is naturally less sensitive
or stimulated than average. To stimulate their brains, extroverts
need to surround themselves with people, activities, and movement.
They gather their energy from 'external' rather than 'internal' or selfgenerated
sources. In this sense, too, being outgoing comes from
one's biology.

Our biology gives us hints for how we should react to people,
tasks, and events in life.

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