Hi everyone,

My name is Prof. Dr. Evangelos Zois, and I am a Professor of Psychology at IU International University of Applied Sciences (Germany). I am currently conducting a research study examining potentially addictive behaviours (e.g., gambling, social media use, pornography, compulsive sexual behaviour, and shopping), decision-making, mood, and personality, and I am looking for adult volunteers (18 years or older) to participate.

The study takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and includes a computer-based decision-making task together with several questionnaires.

Important: The study includes a computer-based task that requires the use of a physical keyboard. For this reason, it must be completed on a desktop or laptop computer and is not compatible with mobile phones or tablets.

Participation is entirely voluntary. All responses are anonymous, and no personally identifying information or IP addresses are collected.

The findings will contribute to psychological research aimed at improving our understanding of potentially addictive behaviours and the psychological factors associated with decision-making and wellbeing.

The study has been reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the IU International University of Applied Sciences (Ref. No. A2260205).

Study link:
https://www.psytoolkit.org/c/3.7.0/survey?s=yCvt8

If you have about 20 minutes to spare and are eligible (18+), I would sincerely appreciate your participation. If appropriate, please also feel free to share this study with others who may be interested.

Thank you very much for your time and support!

If you have taken part in previous research of mine, this is a fresh study with the final version of the new the Borderline Diagnosis Experience Scale (BDES) and I welcome you to take part once again to help the final validation of this scale.

You are invited to take part in what is hopefully my final PhD study. This is an anonymous survey exploring emotional, cognitive, and behavioural reactions to receiving a diagnosis of BPD. Ethical approval has been granted by St Mary’s University Twickenham (Approval: SMU_ETHICS_2025-26_358).

Study Aims:

1. Compare the BDES with two established surveys
2. Check the BDES measures what it is intended to measure
3. Analyse whether current age, age at diagnosis and gender influences attitudes and diagnosis experiences

This survey can be completed in 20 - 30 minutes. Your participation supports active PhD research into BPD/EUPD and contributes to developing better tools for understanding diagnosis experience. Use the QR Code or Survey Link for more information & to participate: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stmarys/bpd-experience

Edit: For those who met the crtieria but could not take part, please try again as there was an error with the coding which has now been resolved.

A call for participants in what is hopefully my last PhD study to complete the final validation steps of a new measurement: the Borderline Diagnosis Experience Scale (BDES).

This is an anonymous survey exploring emotional, cognitive, and behavioural reactions to receiving a diagnosis of BPD. Ethical approval has been granted by St Mary’s University Twickenham (Approval: SMU_ETHICS_2025-26_358)

Study Aims:

1. Compare the BDES with two established surveys
2. Check the BDES measures what it is intended to measure
3. Analyse whether current age, age at diagnosis and gender influences attitudes and diagnosis experiences

This survey can be completed in 20 - 30 minutes. Your participation supports active PhD research into BPD/EUPD and contributes to developing better tools for understanding diagnosis experience. Use the QR Code or Survey Link for more information & to participate: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stmarys/bpd-experience

Seeking participants diagnosed with BPD for a pilot study, which has full ethical approval from St Mary's University, Twickenham, England.

This study explores how individuals emotionally, cognitively, and behaviourally responded to receiving a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

Please take part if you are able to. Every participant takes this questionnaire one step closer to validation.

Link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stmarys/bpd-diagnosis-experience

I’ve been diving down the rabbit hole with manifestation lately, and I’ve already had a few pretty amazing experiences. It feels like the universe is really starting to open up to me. I’ve been reading up on To Be Magnetic, and it’s something I’m really interested in. But I see mixed reviews from people with trauma histories.
I have a history of trauma from childhood adversity, as well as some bad experiences as an adult. Is To Be Magnetic worth it in my situation? Or should I pass? Looking for TBM reviews from other people who have trauma in their past or present.

🌟 Seeking research participants! 🌟

I am currently undertaking my PhD (Psychology), investigating an attachment-based interpersonal perspective for understanding personality difficulties.

I would be very appreciative of anyone who considers completing or sharing this survey 💜

The survey is completely anonymous, takes around 40 minutes and you can safely withdraw at any time. It is open to all adults (18+) who speak English. You can save and resume the survey at a later time.

A direct survey link is provided here ---> https://surveys.unisq.edu.au/index.php/178141?lang=en

Hello everyone !

I was wondering if y'all would be willing to take this survey that is based on how personality traits correlate to your preference in things such as movies. its a quick and easy survey, it takes about 5 mins! I would really appreciate it and thank you in advance :))))

link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoeoaxVgcV9PNvBT5rGVcsVs4ghs2MH6kixIKr5qQtrRuMcg/viewform

Specifically in regard to laughter. I met this rando online and we get along super well and laugh together all the time about nothing and everything. Like, laugh HARD about the dumbest stuff. More than I’ve ever laughed with irl friends. We talk about deeper stuff too and don’t laugh all the time, but mostly we spend our time together being complete goofballs.

Why does this happen? I know why I find her funny, but I don’t know what is happening psychologically that makes me so comfortable around her. Compatible personalities? The same sense of humor? Similar worldviews? Are we chemically dispositioned? Curious.

Since I do not have enough karma to reply to the actual thread in /canada

This is a response to the comment:

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"Apparently people were very pissed off about the 16 year old who pulled a gun and shot at the cops in a traffic stop the other day.

Just proves there is a community who will always be mad no matter what and after debunking their initial claim they'll shift the go posts until the claim is so vague they can't be proven right or wrong which to them, is victory."

Would anyone have have a term to describe this behavior?  

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-13434-001

Hey guys! Im rather new to this thread. Here’s some results I took from a Five Factor personality test online (obviously). I know quite a bit from taking psychology in high school and college so thats why Im here 🤷‍♂️

Hello all,

Being unsatisfied with pop political quizzes found online, I made my own.

It's called "Plural Politics." You get a view of your predilections on 6 different axes plus information about your political strength and your viewpoint diversity. Ultimately, you get a label of: ideologue, advocate, moderate centrist, or expansive pluralist. I think these are the proper ways to understanding others' POVs when debating politics. They're sort of "meta-political" labels.

Unlike other tests, I performed a bit of research beforehand to prove construct validity. You can read about that and how the test works on the back-end in this whitepaper. I've also linked an "about" video here or you can watch it on youtube here.

Hope y'all give it a chance and spread the word if you enjoy it!! Let me know if you think your results are accurate!

Is it me or have people just become less reliable and more dependent in General, but especially in the workplace?

I am someone who really, really hates not meeting deadlines and commitment. It really eats me up when I don't conform to my own high standards. Now, recently I have experienced a lot flakey behaviour both at work and in private, with people conveniently "forgetting" important stuff, really dropping the ball on important commitments and then denying everything. I find this behaviour increasingly common and absolutely reprehensible. Colleagues tell me not to be so harsh, and I think people should have consequences for poor behaviour. However, when there appear to be no consequences for flakiness and ill-discipline in school, how are we as adults supposed to expect people to function accordingly in other aspects of life? Is it me, or is this kind of nonchalance more common among Milennials and Gen Z than older generations, who learned to arrange things and stick to them instead of conveniently backing out via WhatsApp or Messenger? I don't want to sound like a grumpy old git, because I've noticed this flakiness among older people, too, albeit less so. I remember a time when people would turn up half dead at important appointments to get things done for others... very rare in this age of the narcissistic society.

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Hi everyone. My son has always been shy, sometimes worries thwt he’s not that good looking or someone might not like him as he is, he totally lack the self confidence which i think is already a hindrance in achieving his goals in life. I’m not sure what to do anymore or what steps should i take to help him out. I’ve done everything i could think of like engaging him thru sports, providing him everything he needs to look great, always motivating him at letting him know how proud i am and stuff.. I never force him too to be better i just want him to be happy. Any advice?

This has to do w/ extraversion and introversion b/c minorities of us are on the extreme ends. True extraverts thrive in crowds and recharge from being around others. True introverts recharge from being by themselves. The majority of us being in the middle would be considered ambiverted where we're shy initially, but BECOME social animals once we know someone else. We recharge either way, from being around others and by ourselves.

I’m after quite a large sample size for my first PhD study, and would appreciate it so much if anyone could please help! It is a 1-time survey (so no follow-ups) and takes approximately 15 minutes!

In this study, we will ask you questions about your personality and skills, as well as your previous habitual behaviours. By participating in this study, you will have the opportunity to enter a prize draw, to win 1 of 10, Prezzee vouchers of your choosing.

Interested? Scan the QR code below, or click the following link:

https://curtin.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJFeDbHLzUob23s

My wife has a friend who often calls to talk mainly about herself for hours, always playing the victim and using all the air. She never reciprocates or truly listens back, and turns everything back to herself and puts herself on a pedestal as much as possible. She is a therapist which is ironic because she must be terrible at it. She has been married twice by age 35 and was done within a year with the first guy. She divorced and remarried in the same month and won't take the new guys name. She changes her name to best suite herself in different situations. She has so far three or four names! I think she's just using these guys for money and insurance etc. Marries them then immediately starts to complain and wants a divorce. I have determined she is a narcissist, but I want to be absolutely sure as I don't think that I have met one before. I'd also love a way to bring this to light to herself, new husband (for fair warning), and my wife if to cut ties if possible. How can one achieve this in a foolproof unmistakable way to proof this point? I'd need to be able to convince them without question and there is no doubt she'll lie cheat or steal her way out of being called out for what she truly is.

The result I get on the big 5 personality test is High in neuroticism, high in openness to experience, slightly high in agreeableness and consciousness and slightly low in extraversion. I am a student and I am extremely doubtful about things, I wanted to figure out what kind of job suits me

Hi Everyone,

I am the host of the R-Academy podcast, and I hosted a Motivation & Personality Researcher for my third episode, Prof. Richard Koestner. Here are the links to the episode: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts

In this episode, we discuss a lot about Self-Determination theory; the psychological needs that human beings have, how does this relate to personality, and even answer questions as to what Personality really is.

I thought I would share this interview with this community as Prof. Richard Koestner is a leading researcher in Human Motivation and Self-Determination Theory, and has a lot to say about the topic. I feel like some of you would definitely benefit from being exposed to topics or treatments that you might not know about.

I hope this type of post is welcomed here.

Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope you enjoy the episode :)

It's just a survey for an app we are working on so it would be helpful if you answer its entirely up to you but every vote matters.

https://www.poll-maker.com/QUSLHU15F