PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Agreeableness, Surgency, Revised Version
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Chapter 2: personality traits: a good theory. Gosling, ko, mannarelli, and morris reasoned that when people live in an environment they leave behavioral residue behind. Such physical traces left behind by everyday actions are hints or cues to the personality of the occupant. For example, specific items may be left behind either carelessly, or on purpose to convey a certain image. Observers of student dorm rooms were able to agree on what they thought the occupant was like. ( often very accurate) Gosling repeated the study in offices and got the same results as the dorm rooms. There are about 17,937 words to describe human personality. These descriptors are called traits. Traits- describes a person"s typical style of thinking, feeling, and acting in different kinds of situations and at different times. These general and persistent ways of acting and reacting are captured by the concepts of traits.
