Is There a Mental Illness?

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There are a lot of people who believe that many forms of mental illness are simply being an extreme on basic personality dimensions. And so one of my friends, rachel grazoplin, studied this in graduate school. A the claim would be that if you are super duper hi in openness to experience, you start developing what people might call skitsophronia. i actually that that reminds me of ote may be last thing, because we've been talking for a long time,.

David and Tamler tackle the topic selected by their Patreon supporters - the psychology of personality. What are the different dimensions of personality that distinguish one person from another? How many dimensions are there - do the Big Five capture all of them? Do we share some of these differences with other species? Why don't personality psychologists include moral character traits? Plus - are you curious about your partner's true political commitments? No problem, just install a periscope in your toilet.

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