It has been greatly debated whether how many personality traits exist in the past and many personality researchers today support the five-factor theory of personality.

The five core personality traits that we are composed of are:

• Extraversion

Our social media accounts such as our Facebook profiles convey our personalities accurately.

Researchers believe that the ability to be able to freely express one's personality online contributes to the person's online popularity because it allows the audience to know the person, it satis...

Personality plays a dominant role in our growth, from our taste in music to our choices of relationships and our personality basically influences every decision we make in our day to day lives.

Even in political preferences, it's been studied that those who establish themselves as conserva...

Despite popular belief, our core personalities don't change as we grow old. We think that aging changes us but what really changes are our habits, our vigor, and health, the responsibilities, and the circumstances that we are in.

There are three aspects that also tend to change as we age ...

A statistical method was approached when researching the traits that are linked to certain illnesses and discovered that there is a connection between neurotic personality traits and five illnesses such as headaches, asthma, arthritis, peptic ulcers, and heart diseases.

Examples of neurot...

• It was only recently when researchers discovered that there is a connection between our birth order and personality traits.
• Our birth order affects our choices of friends and romantic relationships - firstborns tend to hang out more with firstborns and so on and so forth.

Our personalities are composed of central and secondary traits. These are traits that make up the core foundation of our personalities and the latter is related to our preferences, attitudes, and situational behaviors.

Cardinal

Dog-persons and cat-persons are actual indicators of personality.

Researchers discovered that those individuals that identify themselves as dog-persons are more extroverted and they are eager to please people, while those who prefer cats tend to be more introverted and curious.