
Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality
Very Bad Wizards
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Neuroticism
People who score very similar on the big five traits seem to be really different when you talk to them, in all these significant ways. The psychologist amic adams calls this the psychology of the stranger. It's heavily weighted on information that i want to know about before i meet you. For instance, are you easy to get along with? I want to know, are you neat and but because it's so heavily reliant on the words we've come up with to describe each other, you might really be missing out on a lot of things that we don't often communicate as individuals. But then also, like, so this is going to be a naive question, but, so one of
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