Psychlings Podcast

#6: A/Prof Luke Smillie - how your personality impacts wellbeing, self-awareness vs self-improvement, the joys of academia and the future of better relationships (a personality user manual?!?)

March 18, 2022 Byron & Dazz Season 1 Episode 6
Psychlings Podcast
#6: A/Prof Luke Smillie - how your personality impacts wellbeing, self-awareness vs self-improvement, the joys of academia and the future of better relationships (a personality user manual?!?)
Show Notes

Luke Smillie is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a leading personality researcher. He heads up the Personality Processes Lab at the University of Melbourne. His interests in the field include the underlying causes of our personalities, the links between personality traits and wellbeing, and personality neuroscience. You can find Luke on Twitter @drsmillie. 

A wide-ranging and fascinating conversation with A/Prof. Luke Smillie

- How your personality impacts wellbeing
- Self-awareness vs self-improvement 
- What he loves about being an academic
- The latest research in the personality psychology 
... plus the future of better relationships (a personality user manual!)

Hosts: 
- Byron McCaughey (bmccaughey@student.unimelb.edu.au). 
- Yu "Dazz" Liu (Yuliu13@student.unimelb.edu.au)