Does The Military Make The Man Or Does The Man Make The Military?

Posted by Good German on January 30, 2012

Via ScienceDaily:

“Be all you can be,” the Army tells potential recruits. The military promises personal reinvention. But does it deliver?

A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that personality does change a little after military service — German conscripts come out of the military less agreeable than their peers who chose civilian service.

It’s hard to do long-term studies on how personalities change…

Read more here.