The Science of Personality Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Global Spotlight Series: The Inside of Personality Sep 02, 2025

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In this special episode of The Science of Personality, Blake is joined by three Hogan distributors, Seniora El-Hage of Phoenix Consulting, Victoria Zapata of HR Tools, and Rene Kusch, PhD, of RELEVANT Management Consultancy, to discuss the inside of personality. This episode was recorded live and on video in May at Heiga Studios in Miami, Florida during Hogan Assessments' international distributor summit. A link to the video is below. Cheers!

Global Spotlight Series: The Inside of Personality

Fighting Fuzzy Thinking on Personality Change Aug 26, 2025

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In the latest episode of The Science of Personality, Ryne and Blake talk about a recent article published by John Burn-Murdoch for the Financial Times that sparked a lot of interest among many of Ryne’s colleagues in the world of personality psychology. The article takes a look at an Understanding America Study that shows a significant decline in conscientiousness, particularly among young adults. It also shows decreases in agreeableness and extraversion and an increase in neuroticism. So, a) is it correct and b) does it really matter if it is?

Global Spotlight Series: The Dark Side of Personality Aug 19, 2025

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In this special episode of The Science of Personality, Blake is joined three Hogan distributors, Nicole Neubauer of Personality Guidance AG, Peter Berry of Peter Berry Consultancy, and Gicheha Gitau of Career Connection, to discuss the dark side of personality. This episode was recorded live and on video in May at Heiga Studios in Miami, Florida during Hogan Assessments' international distributor summit. A link to the video is below. Cheers!

Global Spotlight Series: The Dark Side of Personality

Creating a Coaching Culture Aug 12, 2025

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In the latest episode of The Science of Personality, Ryne and Blake are joined by Coaching.com CEO, Charlotte Saulny, to talk about how organizations can create a coaching culture. With more than 20 years of senior leadership experience in professional services, Charlotte has dedicated her career to helping people thrive in the workplace. She has worked directly with many of the heavy hitters in the corporate world, including Hilton, Cisco, Coca-Cola, and Facebook, and as a senior executive at ADP, she oversaw the implementation of a strengths-based employee engagement initiative that positively impacted over 60,000 employees worldwide.

Hogan Global Spotlight: The Bright Side of Personality Aug 05, 2025

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In this special episode of The Science of Personality, Blake is joined three Hogan distributors, Jani Wiggett of JVR Africa, Melvyn Payne of Advanced People Strategies, and Roberto Santos of Ateliê RH, to discuss the bright side of personality. This episode was recorded live and on video in May at Heiga Studios in Miami, Florida during Hogan Assessments' international distributor summit. A link to the video is below. Cheers!

Hogan Global Spotlight: The Bright Side of Personality

Music & Personality Jul 29, 2025

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In the latest episode of The Science of Personality, Ryne and Blake are joined by David Greenberg, PhD, a psychologist, neuroscientist, and musician who is one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of music, and in today’s episode David is going to help us explore the topic of music and personality. What does the music we listen to say about our personalities? How do our personalities frame the various kinds of music we listen to? Well, we couldn’t have asked for a better guest to help us answer these questions. Throughout his prestigious career, David has served as a senior scientific advisor and consultant for companies like Spotify and National Geographic and is a regular guest on the BBC, NPR, CBS, ABC News and many other media outlets. We think you’re really going to enjoy this discussion.

In addition, David is the founder of CHIME Therapy and his latest venture, CHIME Health, which just launched this month.

Workplace TikTok Trends Jul 19, 2025

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In the latest episode of The Science of Personality, Ryne and Blake are joined by Ebenezer Edema-Sillo, a Hogan Assessments Data Science Intern and 5th year PhD student at the University of Houston, to talk about Workplace TikTok trends. It’s no secret that in today’s society people utilize social media platforms like TikTok to shine a light on current workplace trends like quiet quitting or acting your wage, but how do these trends relate to our personality characteristics or values?

Values and Fit: The Culture Equation Jul 01, 2025

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In the latest episode of the The Science of Personality, Ryne and Blake to talk about values and culture fit and why it’s so crucial, particularly when it comes to executive selection. At Hogan we talk a lot about values. In fact, we think SO highly of values that we introduced an assessment that measures one’s values all the way back in 1996. Fast forward to 2025 and they are just as important, and arguably much more important, today that they’ve ever been. This is a topic that Ryne and his industry-leading data science team have focused on a lot recently, and we thought it was a great time to bring that work to the podcast.

The Science of Personality Turns 5: Listener Favorites Jun 17, 2025

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In the latest episode of The Science of Personality, Ryne and Blake celebrate the podcast’s five-year anniversary with a look back at some of the most impactful conversations to date. From exploring the dark side of personality to digging into careers and the broader impact of personality, this special episode features clips from standout moments across each season, including:

Year 1: The Dark Side of Personality ft. Peter Harms, PhD
Year 2: Personality, Leadership, and the Consequences featuring Robert Hogan, PhD
Year 3: Leadership Emergence vs. Leadership Effectiveness featuring Ryne Sherman and Blake Loepp
Year 4: High Potentials featuring Christopher J. Duffy
Year 5: Personality, Careers, and the Impact featuring Allan Church, PhD

Potential to Performance Jun 03, 2025

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In the latest episode of The Science of Personality, Ryne and Blake are joined by Melvyn Payne, Commercial Director at Advanced People Strategies out of the UK, to talk about potential to performance. The word potential gets thrown around a lot in HR and talent management circles, but potential on its own really means nothing if it doesn’t translate to performance. As the commercial director of one of Hogan’s top international distributors at APS, few people in the world of Hogan know more about this topic than Melvyn.