When you don a Halloween costume, you may be taking on new personality traits without even realizing it! Here are the personality traits of popular Halloween costumes and characters – including vampires, witches, ghouls, and zombies.
The Personality Traits of Vampires
It’s not true that vampires have no heart, says Lapin, author of The Vampire, Dracula, and Incest. "A vampire has a heart, but it is imploded [psychologically]," he says. That's the origin of a vampire's need to suck blood.
"Vampires may have a psychological need to control others," says Barbara Almond, MD, a Palo Alto, Calif., psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Vampirism could represent a fantasy – whether it’s a Halloween costume or a state of being. "The fantasy would be taking over and controlling others by bleeding them."
