
Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality
Very Bad Wizards
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The Big Five and Modern Personality Psychology
Early personality psycho psychologists tried really hard to avoid a moral or valuative a traits. So what you don't see here is a things like character or virtues. And that's because courageous or courageous, they wanted it to be not value laden. That's changed a little bit, there's a been o resurgence and interest in character and character traits. Im one of the more sort of, one of the newer a theories of personality psychologyis caled the hexico model. And that’s just taking the big five and adding an honesty dimension to it. And the argument there is that there is a reliable individual difference. In broadly speaking, this a kind of moral character trait
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