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Nature vs. Nurture, Neurogenetics, Personality, Autism, Schizophrenia, Synesthesia & Free Will | Kevin Mitchell | 78

Mind & Matter

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How Much of Ourselves Do We Have?

There's a whole sort of science of personality in trying to figure out, how do these things vary across am, across the population. What or ate of the dimensions along which human personalities vary? Taso: If you just look at the way people interact with each other, there are about eight thousand words we have that all fe to a slightly different style of behavior. The most popular ones are what's called the big five, extra version, openness,. conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticisman. Each those captures a kind of a dimension That's recognizable enough for psychologists to put a number on.

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