Personality Psychology Podcast #3 Personality structure and change with Emorie Beck
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Mar 27, 2021 AI Snips
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Defining Personality
- In a classroom exercise, students created diverse personality questionnaires, revealing the challenge of defining personality.
- This exercise highlighted the difficulty of measurement and the circular nature of defining personality based on tests.
Historical Roots of Personality
- Personality psychology's roots lie in philosophy, including Aristotelian virtues.
- Defining personality is less about 'what' and more about 'how' you understand a person.
Lexical Hypothesis and Factor Analysis
- Gordon Allport's lexical hypothesis suggests studying traits through descriptive adjectives.
- Factor analysis helps cluster similar traits, simplifying personality structure research.