Dr. Gerard Saucier is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. He won the 1999 Cattell Early Career Research Award from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. His research focuses on Personality Psychology, Values, Cultural Psychology, Moral Psychology, and Political Psychology. Dr. Saucier has been a leader in developing and refining dimensional models for personality (the Big Five, and upgrading from the Big Five to a more comprehensive Big Six model and a broader, more universal 'Big Two') and beliefs and values (e.g., dimensions of ‘isms’).

In this episode, we talk about personality psychology, and the Big Five, Big Six and HEXACO personality traits inventories, and the Big Two. We start off with an overview of the historical and scientific importance of the development of the Big Five personality traits to personality psychology, and the scientific rationale behind them, the lexical hypothesis/rationale. Then, we discuss the Big Six and the HEXACO, and how these inventories are arrived at. We also talk about what would be the goals of the development of these inventories, with special emphasis on universality and predictive ability. We discuss briefly the ten aspects of the Big Five, and then finish off by talking about the application of these inventories to clinical psychology, and the ways by which culture might influence personality traits and how they get expressed.

Time Links:

01:00 The scientific relevance of the Big Five

02:35 The lexical hypothesis/rationale

11:35 The Big Six and the HEXACO

17:01 The Big Two (Social Self-Regulation and Dynamism)

21:21 The goals of the development of personality inventories, including universality and prediction

28:26 The ten aspects of the Big Five

30:34 The application of these models to clinical psychology and occupational counseling

36:11 Are there any major cultural trends that influence personality traits or how they get expressed?

43:03 Follow Dr. Saucier’s work!

Follow Dr. Saucier’s work:

Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y3gwro5m

Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y5ncu54z

Twitter handle: @G_Saucier

A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BRIAN RIVERA, ADRIANO ANDRADE, YEVHEN BODRENKO, SERGIU CODREANU, AD

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