PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.2: Twin, Serotonin Transporter, Trait Theory
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But we"re not pointing fingers canadians,western europeans,australians, and others are weird too. In this context,weird stands for western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, outlining key characteristics of certain cultures. The five factor model of personality centres around five personality dimensions: neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. However, because these factors were discovered by researchers working in weird places the united. States, canada, and europe it is possible that the five factor model only accounts for personality in weird populations, and may not extend to the rest of the world. For example, cheung et al. (1996) factor-analyzed indigenous chinese personality traits, looking for patterns among the personality descriptors used in chinese, rather than english. they found. 26 new personality traits in total, and when they factor-analyzed all the traits including these 26 new ones, they found a quite different structure from the big five.
