The Importance of Self-Awareness in Understanding Personality

Dr. Colin DeYoung is a personality neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, where he directs the DeYoung Personality Lab. 

In this episode we talk about the science of personality, including the Big Five (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism) and their neural correlates. We discuss how personality is measured, genetic and environmental influences on personality and its development over time, and the Big Five traits’ connections to areas of my own research on the neuroendocrinology of reward sensitivity and inhibitory control.