IRE260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Negative Affectivity, Narcissism, Psychopathy
23 Sep 2016
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Reading: chapter 2: personality and learning; pages 46-55. Organization citizen behaviour: obeying extra rules (helping coworkers, working overtime) *individual behaviour: personality, personality, perception, culture, values. The relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influences the way an individual interacts with his or her environment and how he or she feels, thinks, and behaves. Dimensions and traits that are determined by genetic predisposition and one"s long-term learning history. The marshmallow test: high delayers and low delayers. High delayers: more patient, self-disciplined, higher chance to be successful; 30 years later: higher sat scores, more successful, healthier, lower bmi. The role of personality in organizational behaviour has often been debated in what is known as the. The dispositional approach: by nature, biological; individuals are predisposed to behave in certain way, focuses on individual dispositions and personality, individuals possess stable traits or characteristics that influence their attitudes and behaviours. Recruited nice college students, assigned them prison guard/prisoner roles.
