The phrase attributed to circus master P.T. Barnum that “there’s a sucker born every minute” formed the basis for a classroom demonstration by Bertram Forer in 1949 showing how easy it was to turn ...

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People love taking personality tests, but are personality types real? Maybe, and maybe not. Personality development is complicated, and most healthy personality types are not so easily defined. Your ...