PSY230H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Walter Mischel, Extraversion And Introversion, Personality Psychology
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Core assumption of personality psychology: people behave consistently across situations. Social people are more likely to meet new people: at parties, in airplanes, in classrooms, in bars, online. However behaviour is also influenced by situations: in bars, in dark alleys. Epstein (1983): the power of aggregation: daily diary study of moods, complete a diary for 30 days, at the end of each day, students recorded how they felt during a day. Experience sampling study of the big five: participants. Students carried palm pilots and reported their behaviors and feelings in the past few hours (states). The 2nd round of the controversy: epstein: Aggregation is necessary to control measurement error. Personality is all that matters: mischel"s response: Situational effects are much larger than personality effects. Cross-temporal consistency (retest stability: a = i am sitting in the front (row 1-6), and i have been sitting in the front during most of the previous lectures in this course.
