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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Northwestern researchers sifted through over 1.5 million personality respondents from four separate questionnaires to come up with four personality types. “Average” types were the most common, characterized by people showing higher levels of stress and extraversion and low levels of openness to change.

You’re most likely average, study says

October 9, 2018

Northwestern researchers are challenging the norms of personality psychology with the development of new computational algorithms, finding at least four fluid personality “types”: average, reserved,...

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Beatrice Farb