PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Susan Cain, Extraversion And Introversion, Neuroticism
16 Apr 2016
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The big 5 traits: evidence of their usefulness. In fostering the scientific study of personality? (cid:131) In your own everyday life? (cid:131) helps you assess and organize social information about other people. Mnemonics for the big 5 (oliver john 1990) Extroversion is about having an energetic approach to the social and material world. Not restricted to social world; highly extroverted people travel more, do more things (energetic approach. Neuroticism isn"t about have lower positive affect, it"s about being more susceptible to having negative emotions. Openness is about the experiential life of the individual. When you think agreeable you think of someone who is willing to go along; this person is submissive, who is at low end of dominance (extroversion); this does not capture agreeableness. Agreeableness is about being prosocial and communal. Extroversion is about agency (getting ahead), agreeableness is about community (getting along); two important interpersonal traits. Conscientiousness has to do about goal-directed behavior.
