PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Cultural Evolution
20 Feb 2017
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Think about what traits might lead to what characteristics etc. How do we know that the big 5 traits are measuring something real not just. Film clip from the office (pam vs. jim personality traits) Mcadams: agreeableness=more than just being nice expressive qualities of much random for the big 5 at least (maybe other aspects of personality influence our partner choice though) Important to recognize we can look at opposites too e. g. someone may be low on agreeableness and high on openness to experience. We often don"t sort out big 5 traits when looking for a partner seems pretty love and empathy, cooperation, friendliness. Altruism affection very humane what makes us (cid:498)human(cid:499) Trap of studying big 5: wondering, (cid:498)am ) stuck here? (cid:499) the thing is you can change etc. ) so it"s not black and white good and bad. Most traits average is around the middle. Many of us are on the low end of agreeableness.
