PSYCH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Time Point, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
Document Summary
As people age, personality should stay the same(?) Openness decreases for all through life (controversial data) Women decrease in neuroticism by a ton. Men stay the same neuroticism (very low) Data collection from people of different ages at single time point. Data collection of the same individuals repeatedly over time. Exploration forming close relationships, strengthening small social networks. Process and remember positive experiences more deeply. Usually, wired to pay attention more to negative things. Increase in positive emotions and complex (mixed) emotions, decrease in negative emotions. Series of product ads framed either in emotional rewards or exploration (knowledge acquisition) terms. It is not about age, it is about time horizon (ex: those with little time to live because of illness but are young) As people age, positive emotions are increasingly more common than negative emotions. More frequent positive and/or less frequent negative emotions predict mortality.
