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Personality Types vs. Personality Disorders

A person's personality is determined by a complex and unique blend of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It consists of a variety of traits and patterns that influence how individuals perceive and interact with their surroundings. Even if each person has a distinct personality, distinguishing between personality types and personality disorders is crucial. Personality Types Personality types are broad categories used to identify typical patterns of behavior, habits, and qualities. The Big Five Personality Traits or the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) are widely used to predict these personalities. These frameworks categorize people based on traits such as extraversion, introversion, openness, conscientiousness, and others. Understanding personality types can aid us in understanding how individuals interact, communicate, and make decisions. It can also help people become more self-aware and recognize their own strengths and weaknesses. Personality types, rather than being thought ...

Unlocking the Art of Persuasion

The Foot-in-the-door technique  This is a persuasion tactic that involves making small requests with low chances of refusal and gradually increasing the size of the requests to make it difficult for people to say no. When people accept small requests, they may perceive themselves as kind and accommodating, which makes it harder for them to refuse larger requests that follow. This technique is useful in situations where you want someone to do something, like supporting a political candidate or participating in a campaign. For instance, you could start by asking them to wear a pin or badge supporting the candidate and then gradually ask them to do more as they become more committed. The Door-in-the-face technique This works by making a large request that you know people will refuse and then following it up with a smaller, more reasonable request. By initially asking for something that is unlikely to be granted, you make the smaller request seem more reasonable in comparison, and peop...

Resilience: The Ability to Bounce Back

Resilience is a term that is used to describe an individual's ability to withstand and recover quickly from difficult conditions. The word "resilience" comes from the Latin word "resilire," meaning "to leap back." This concept is not only important in the field of physics, where it describes a strained body's ability to recover its size and form following deformation, but also in the field of psychology, where it is used to describe an individual's ability to adapt to adversity and maintain a positive state of psychological functioning. However, defining resilience can be a challenge as the definitions of adversity and positive adaptation may vary based on the historical and sociocultural context within which the research was conducted, the researchers' conceptual proclivities, and the population sampled. Most researchers agree that both adversity and positive adaptation must be evident for resilience to be demonstrated. But, inconsistencie...