Does the military make the man or does the man make the military?
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
"Be all you can be," the Army tells potential recruits. The military promises personal reinvention. But does it deliver? A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that personality does change a little after military service German conscripts come out of the military less agreeable than their peers who chose civilian service.