17-01-2017 06:39 via feeds.socialpsychology.org

Personality May Change After Therapy, Study Finds

Source: Yahoo News - SciencePersonality, once thought to be fundamental and resistant to change, can shift in response to therapy, new research finds. The study synthesizes data from 207 published research papers that measured personality traits as one outcome of various psychotherapies. But that doesn't mean that personality change is easy, warned study researcher Brent Roberts, a social and personality psychologist at the University of Illinois.
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