PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Dark Triad, Work Ethic, Narcissism

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Personality- particular pattern of behavior and thinking that prevails across time and situations and differentiates one person from another. Goal of psychologists who study personality is to discover the causes of individual differences in behavior. Research on human personality requires 2 kinds of effort: identifying personality characteristics, determining the variables that produce and control them. In the study of personality, we must be careful to avoid nominal fallacy (false belief that the causes of an event are explained by simply naming and identifying them). Earliest known explanation for individual differences in personality (proposed by. Later, biological investigations, of course, discredited the humoral theory. Personality types- different categories into which personality characteristics can be assigned based on factors such as developmental experiences or physical characteristics. Rather than focusing on types, many current investigators prefer to measure the degree to which an individual expresses a particular personality trait.