Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

I have been examining how psychologists and other experts judge personality, and how experts' judgments of personality might differ from the judgments made by ordinary people. My aim is to explore how ...

The words you use can reveal a lot about your personality, and in more subtle ways than you think. Researchers (like me) are using that fact to look at what you do online and discover the secrets of ...

The word "loquacious," derived from the Latin "loqui" meaning "to speak," describes someone who is talkative, often in a ...