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Annie Murphy Paul

Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author who writes about the biological and social sciences. Born in Philadelphia, she graduated from Yale University and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former senior editor at Psychology Today magazine, she was awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, Discover, Health, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and... Read full bio

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Origins How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives By: Annie Murphy Paul

This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages

Publication date: September 28, 2010

What makes us the way we are? Some say it’s the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it’s the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics—our...

Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback

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The Cult of Personality Testing How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves By: Annie Murphy Paul

This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages

Publication date: September 27, 2005

Other Formats: eBook

The Cult of Personality How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves By: Annie Murphy Paul

This edition: eBook, 320 pages

Publication date: September 22, 2004

Millions of Americans take personality tests each year: to get a job, to pursue an education, to settle a legal dispute, to better understand themselves and others. But where did these tests come from, and what are they...