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#464 Brent Roberts: Continuity and Change in Personality, Conscientiousness, and Narcissism

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Can You Change Your Personality if You're So Motivated?

If you want to change your personality, there are ways of doing it. They take work a seeing a therapist appears to be one of the ways that you do that. In particular, for something like emotional stability or neuroticism, we still don't know a lot about this right so we know that it exists. We know that the experimental results show that it might be causal, but how long it sticks? There were a lot of studies, not a lot,. about 50 out of 200 people who had asked therapy. I'm not confident in the data, because the selection effects are not profound. The people who bother to respond to your e-mail and back, then the male respondents weren

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