In fact we have a coposite culture and therefore a coompsite personality. We are human beings and consider others asl human beings with whom we can colive and coexist. Now, days are different due to a more busy life, othewise till recently a local community used to mourn and celebrate together across creed and caste. We have no concept of PERSONAL SPACE that makes a people different or separate from others. Untouchability has lmost vanished and understanding among communites has grown. Generally, our concept of life is like this, "Shahjahan got built Taj Mahal and workers built that. Shahjahan was born naked and went into earth after deathe and the same applies to the workers who constructed Taj Mahal out of their toil. If a would be worker was begotten by Jehngir, he would had been Shahjahan. Then, why distinction between individuals? Our collective or composite culture where one looses one's identity is our strength as we may feel pain of others otherwise our driving force will be materialism without considering that in the pursuit of going up and up, we shall not know how many people are crushed under our boots.

Thank you... thats a different way of looking at it i guess... :) But this is not what i meant at all. I am talking about research conducted by psychologists for better understanding of our society. Thanks anyway... :)

@ Sachidanand Swami, thanks for that! i too realized that there is nothing happening in the area of personality studies and research hence my query. :)

@ Nafja, thats great! What kind of researches are going on? I am very interested to know. Please do tell. Thanks to you both,

Defence Institute of Psychological research is doing research in Personality. It has a full fledged Personality division Subramony

Hi Subramony, thanks for the info. Could you tell me what kind of researches are going on? I would love to find out more.... thanks!