Keyword: personality

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How Birth Order Shapes Your Personality with Stephanie Ross April 15, 2014

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Giullian Gioiello, Stephanie Ross
Category: Family & Parenting, Identity & The Self

Birth order predicts more about your personality and relationships than most people realize. Armand DiMele and researcher Stephanie Ross break down how being an only child, firstborn, or later-born shapes anger triggers, confidence, and compatibility, while noting that adoption, remarriage, and loss can shift everything.

Generosity and Stinginess August 27, 2013

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Generous people live with a sense of unlimited possibility while stingy people hoard out of fear, including fear of death. Armand DiMele argues that giving can be an act of aggression and withholding an act of love, and that wealth has almost nothing to do with which type you are.

Personality Types Along the Continuum October 23, 2012

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Erin Oberlander, John Valerio, Lisa Arnone
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

We are all born with slightly more of one trait than another, and under stress that trait gets exaggerated into what we call a personality disorder. Armand explores this continuum with Lisa Arnone, LCSW, and Dr. Erin Oberlander, examining projection, borderline dynamics, and why blame, whether of self or others, keeps people stuck.

What Your Voice Reveals About You August 29, 2012

Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Your speaking style gives you away. Armand DiMele and voice specialist Elizabeth Sastry break down the psychological types behind how people talk: the deferential, the dramatic, the worrier, the scattered, the controlling, and the silent. Callers then test the framework against their own relationships.

The Dependent Personality June 19, 2012

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Lisa Arnone
Category: Identity & The Self, Personal Growth & Change

Dependency gets reframed as a workable strategy rather than a simple flaw. Armand DiMele, working with supervisee Lisa Arnone, LCSW, walks through dependent personality disorder, the hidden advantages it offers both the dependent person and their partners, and why independence is no guaranteed path to happiness either.

Extroversion and Introversion August 31, 2010

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Where do you fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum, and does it matter? Armand DiMele and co-host Stephanie Dombrough break down the neuroscience and psychology behind each type, the myth that introversion equals shyness, and how misreading these differences creates conflict in relationships and households.

New Year Personality Change January 1, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Every change demands a loss, and Armand DiMele makes that the central argument of this New Year’s Day reflection. Wanting more organization means surrendering some creative chaos; dropping anger means facing the sadness underneath it. He walks through anger, depression, isolation, and petty dishonesty as sites where real change begins, and closes with a set of simple, non-preachy invitations: weep freely, listen without challenging, apologize, be kinder.

The Psychology of Umami January 24, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Love & Romantic Relationships

What if the mysterious quality that makes a person or relationship feel just right is the psychological equivalent of umami? Armand DiMele maps the five taste sensations onto human personality types and romantic chemistry, arguing that savory wholeness, not sweetness or intensity alone, is what makes love and life satisfying.