PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mena, Situation Two, Agreeableness
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Overview of today"s lecture: - agency & communion - the interpersonal circumplex - Dimensions of human existence: - agency: o focus on the self o formation of separations o. Striving for expansion and elevation of self - communion o focus on others o formation of connections o striving for contact and congregation with others. Metaconcepts not intended to classified phenomena in the world, but they are used to categorized concepts that are through theories human evolution: - we are products of the evolutionary process o. Getting along the attachment system -> regulate communal relationships safety and. Proximity maintenance (communion) o getting ahead the social rank system . Dominance and competition the product of sex-segregated play ( war games ) perpetuated by wage-earner roles (agency) Personality is the relatively enduring pattern of recurrent interpersonal situations which characterize a human life (1953)
