CMST 2010 Chapter : Personality And Interpersonal Relationships Week One
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Companies have began personality testing to identify potential managers and supervisors versus identifying technical people. Problem with testing is data is self-reported data; the person being tested gives the data to the company. Your personality can tell you what you are good at in relationships and it can help you understand what your partner is thinking and feeling. The characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, or/and behaviors that make a person unique: consistency: we will act a certain way habitually in different specific situations, psychological & physiological: mainly think in psychological construct (built in our minds). Also a physiological construct (how our body reacts and does some of what it does). Two schools of thought: complementary hypothesis: opposites attract, similarity attraction: similar people attract each other. Researchers looked at opposites and wanted to see narried/ engaged couples. Similarity hypothesis was truer in the early years of marriage with more dissatisfaction in middle and late years.
