PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nomothetic, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness
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Personality: the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances. When a person falls down, we can make many judgments. We can make situational judgments or dispositional judgments towards their behavior. Strong situations: powerful social environments that mask differences in personality. For example, job interviews, funerals, hanging out with your boss. This is because you"re acting in different ways in these situations. The idea here is that they mask differences in personalities. It is hard to get a grasp of somebody"s personality because the situation is taking hold of everything ese. Then we can contrast that with weak situations, that is the opposite case. You can tell the introverts and the extroverts in this social gathering. These arer the types of situations when personality shines through more easily. It allows people to behave more freely, and it is easier to discern personality differences. Different ways of studying and understanding personality.
