Monday Brain Food ~ Dominant Personality Quiz

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You're pretty familiar with your personality, characteristics and quirks, right? Here's a quick and fun quiz about your DOMINANT PERSONALITY TRAITS which might not be quite as well known to you. According to the test, I'm Passion. {Let's not confirm that with King Rufus, okay?} :)

This might be a fun tool to put some of your novel's characters through also. Do you know how they'd react in certain situations?

Hope your week is a great and easy one, especially if you have kidlets transitioning from summer sloth back to school schedules.

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I'm working my way through all the wonderful entries in the Haiku Hoedown last week, and will announce the winner Wednesday, the day we yap about all things writing and writerly.

Dr. Phil Says I'm What? (And Why I'm Twitching)

A little fun personality quiz of 10 questions at PsychCentral, supposedly first developed by Dr. Phil, for your Monday brain food. I scored a 45, so that puts me between Dr. Phil and Oprah. LOL.

The Lively Center of Attention: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

So, what's your personality type?

...and some writerly scoopage here at BookEnds Literary Agency's blog that might make you Twitch too. (Guess I gotta finally learn to Tweet. *sigh*)

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Blogging + Personality = ?

On Mondays here at Gumbo Writer, we usually banter about trivia, things that make ya go hmmm?, or take a little time out to explore some sort of online quiz. What do all these things have in common, besides being lumped under the Tout le Monde (everything else in the world) heading? Well, bloggy buds, they help us discover new and interesting things about ourselves. And who doesn't love doing that?

So, the other day I get an email asking me to participate in a scientific study by taking a personality quiz. It concerned how personality relates to blogging. You know I jumped on that with both size-10s! The quiz was really interesting, and after slogging through the longer one (you have an option of taking a short one instead), I learned how I scored in the "Big 5" personality categories ~ Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness and Agreeableness. Cool, huh?

The online research study is being conducted Mr. Tal Yarkoni under the supervision of Dr. Simine Vazire at Washington University in St. Louis. The study investigates the relation between people's personality and the content and style of their writing, and has been approved by the Washington University Human Research Protection Office. I asked Mr. Yarkoni if he'd like me to pass the word to blogging friends, and he said yes. If you're interested in finding out more, the study can be accessed HERE.

I haven't tried these yet, but there are other online projects listed in case you want to find out even more about your personality, and help further scientific research: study 1 and study 2.

Are you fascinated with self-discovery and learning new things? If you write, do you think this curiosity helps you improve your craft? What say you?