We know that our personalities can shift across a lifetime, but usually it happens slowly. A new survey suggests the pandemic sped things up and has made people more disagreeable and introverted
Sutin and her colleagues analysed data on 7109 adults between the ages of 18 and 109 who participated in the University of Southern California’s
They compared actual personality changes during the first and second year of the pandemic with normalover that period. “Personality has what we call a normative trajectory,” says Sutin. “So, if you look across the lifespan, it tends to change in the same way for most people.”
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more: