
Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality
Very Bad Wizards
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What Is the Psychology of Personality?
In the last ten, 15, maybe more, years, an interest in character has really emerged because of this dissatisfaction. And what science needed to be that we took away those dimensions, the valud aspect of it. There is a real desire by some personality theorists,. to carve nature at its joints and say, like extra version, introversion, anxiety, b no neuroticism are actually tied to particular biological systems across not just humans, but other mammals. But if what you want to do is really capture something that is more than that, something that is would be true of all humans - om people have pointed human important to humans even in an evolutionary sense right?
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