PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mother Teresa, Dark Triad, Psychoticism
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There"s lots of people i(cid:374)terested i(cid:374) perso(cid:374)ality. People will make others do personality tests graduate schools, good jobs. Ca(cid:374)"t say a (cid:271)ara(cid:272)k o(cid:271)a(cid:373)a is (cid:373)ore i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)t tha(cid:374) joh(cid:374)(cid:374)y depp. Question is not about intelligence but rather personality. >> people believed that having more of one made their personality diff. Type a personalities: people driven to succeed can never have enough. (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e this a(cid:374)y(cid:373)ore believe in notion of traits. Traits first to introduce personality as a combination of traits. Went to try and find words that describe other people. Found about 18k words to describe people and their personalities. Can categorize relative traits to a personality. Trait that dominates over any other traits of a person (eg. mother theresa compassionate) central traits. The main characteristics of a certain individual (eg. you see a shy person core traits that are there often) secondary traits.
