Brain structure corresponds to personality

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 06:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Personalities come in all kinds. Now psychological scientists have found that the size of different parts of people's brains correspond to their personalities; for example, conscientious people tend to have a bigger lateral prefrontal cortex, a region of the brain involved in planning and controlling behaviour...

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