Table of Contents
83 relations: Abraham Maslow, Adjustment (psychology), Aggression, Agreeableness, Alfred Adler, Analytical psychology, Annual Review of Psychology, Association for Research in Personality, Baruch Spinoza, Behavior, Big Five personality traits, Biological basis of personality, Carl Jung, Carl Rogers, Cognition, Conscientiousness, Consensus reality, Corporation (feudal Europe), David Hume, De rerum natura, Definition, Differential psychology, Ego depletion, Emotion, Empiricism, Extraversion and introversion, Factor analysis, Frontal lobe, Gordon Allport, Guild, Habit, Hans Eysenck, Henry Murray, Human variability, Hypothalamus, Individual psychology, John Locke, Judith Rich Harris, Kinship, Lucretius, Medieval household, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Modernity, Motivation, Neuropsychology, Neurotic Personality Questionnaire KON-2006, Neuroticism, Objective test, Occipital lobe, Offender profiling, ... Expand index (33 more) »
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.
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Adjustment (psychology)
In psychology, adjustment is the condition of a person who is able to adapt to changes in their physical, occupational, and social environment.
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Aggression
Aggression is a behavior aimed at opposing or attacking something or someone.
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Agreeableness
Agreeableness is a personality trait referring to individuals that are perceived as kind, sympathetic, cooperative, warm, honest, and considerate.
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Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler (7 February 1870 – 28 May 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.
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Analytical psychology
Analytical psychology (Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" of the psyche.
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Annual Review of Psychology
The Annual Review of Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about psychology.
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Association for Research in Personality
The Association for Research in Personality (abbreviated ARP) is an American learned society dedicated to advancing research into personality.
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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 163221 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.
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Behavior
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment.
Big Five personality traits
In trait theory, the Big Five personality traits (sometimes known as the five-factor model of personality or OCEAN model) is a group of five unique characteristics used to study personality.
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Biological basis of personality
The biological basis of personality is a collection of brain systems and mechanisms that underlie human personality.
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Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology.
Carl Rogers
Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy.
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Cognition
Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
Conscientiousness
Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being responsible, careful, or diligent.
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Consensus reality
Consensus reality refers to the generally agreed-upon version of reality within a community or society, shaped by shared experiences and understandings.
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Corporation (feudal Europe)
In feudal Europe, a corporation (from the Latin corpus, corporis a body) was an aggregation of business interests into a single legal body, entity or compact, usually with an explicit license from city, church, or national leaders.
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David Hume
David Hume (born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism.
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De rerum natura
(On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.
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Definition
A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols).
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Differential psychology
Differential psychology studies the ways in which individuals differ in their behavior and the processes that underlie it.
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Ego depletion
Ego depletion is the controversial idea that self-control or willpower draws upon a limited pool of mental resources that can be used up (with the word "ego" used in the psychoanalytic sense rather than the colloquial sense).
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Emotion
Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.
Empiricism
In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence.
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Extraversion and introversion
Extraversion and introversion are a central trait dimension in human personality theory.
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Factor analysis
Factor analysis is a statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms of a potentially lower number of unobserved variables called factors.
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Frontal lobe
The frontal lobe is the largest of the four major lobes of the brain in mammals, and is located at the front of each cerebral hemisphere (in front of the parietal lobe and the temporal lobe).
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Gordon Allport
Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 – October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist.
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Guild
A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.
Habit
A habit (or wont, as a humorous and formal term) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.
Hans Eysenck
Hans Jürgen Eysenck (4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist.
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Henry Murray
Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University.
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Human variability
Human variability, or human variation, is the range of possible values for any characteristic, physical or mental, of human beings.
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Hypothalamus
The hypothalamus (hypothalami) is a small part of the vertebrate brain that contains a number of nuclei with a variety of functions.
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Individual psychology
Individual psychology (Individualpsychologie) is a psychological method or science founded by the Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler.
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John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
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Judith Rich Harris
Judith Rich Harris (February 10, 1938 – December 29, 2018) was an American psychology researcher and the author of The Nurture Assumption, a book criticizing the belief that parents are the most important factor in child development, and presenting evidence which contradicts that belief.
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Kinship
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
Lucretius
Titus Lucretius Carus (–) was a Roman poet and philosopher.
Medieval household
The medieval household was, like modern households, the center of family life for all classes of European society.
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a standardized psychometric test of adult personality and psychopathology.
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Modernity
Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissancein the Age of Reason of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century Enlightenment.
Motivation
Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior.
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Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system.
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Neurotic Personality Questionnaire KON-2006
The Neurotic Personality Questionnaire KON-2006 is a psychometric tool used for diagnosing personality dysfunctions that contribute to the development of neurotic disorders.
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Neuroticism
Neuroticism is a personality trait associated with negative emotions.
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Objective test
Objective tests are measures in which responses maximize objectivity, in the sense that response options are structured such that examinees have only a limited set of options (e.g. Likert scale, true or false).
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Occipital lobe
The occipital lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals.
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Offender profiling
Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is an investigative strategy used by law enforcement agencies to identify likely suspects and has been used by investigators to link cases that may have been committed by the same perpetrator.
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Openness to experience
Openness to experience is one of the domains which are used to describe human personality in the Five Factor Model.
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Oxytocin
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone and neuropeptide normally produced in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary.
Person
A person (people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. Personality and person are metaphysics of mind.
Personality and Individual Differences
Personality and Individual Differences is a peer-reviewed academic journal published 16 times per year by Elsevier.
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Personality change
Personality change refers to the different forms of change in various aspects of personality.
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Personality computing
Personality computing is a research field related to artificial intelligence and personality psychology that studies personality by means of computational techniques from different sources, including text, multimedia, and social networks.
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Personality crisis
Personality crisis may refer to one or more personality problems.
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Personality disorder
Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's culture.
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Personality in animals
Personality in animals has been investigated across a variety of different scientific fields including agricultural science, animal behaviour, anthropology, psychology, veterinary medicine, and zoology.
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Personality psychology
Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals.
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Personality rights
Personality rights, sometimes referred to as the right of publicity, are rights for an individual to control the commercial use of their identity, such as name, image, likeness, or other unequivocal identifiers.
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Pragmatism
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality.
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Prefrontal cortex
In mammalian brain anatomy, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) covers the front part of the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex.
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Psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
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Rationalism
In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification",Lacey, A.R. (1996), A Dictionary of Philosophy, 1st edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
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Raymond Cattell
Raymond Bernard Cattell (20 March 1905 – 2 February 1998) was a British-American psychologist, known for his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure.
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Reliability (statistics)
In statistics and psychometrics, reliability is the overall consistency of a measure.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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René Descartes
René Descartes (or;; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
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Rorschach test
The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.
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Self
In philosophy, the self is an individual's own being, knowledge, and values, and the relationship between these attributes.
Self-efficacy
In psychology, self-efficacy is an individual's belief in their capacity to act in the ways necessary to reach specific goals.
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
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Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American literary historian and author.
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Strange situation
The strange situation is a procedure devised by Mary Ainsworth in the 1970s to observe attachment in children, that is relationships between a caregiver and child.
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Temperament and Character Inventory
The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is an inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger et al.
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Test validity
Test validity is the extent to which a test (such as a chemical, physical, or scholastic test) accurately measures what it is supposed to measure.
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Testosterone
Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and androgen in males.
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Trait theory
In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality.
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Two-factor models of personality
The two-factor model of personality is a widely used psychological factor analysis measurement of personality, behavior and temperament.
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William James
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.
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16PF Questionnaire
The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) is a self-reported personality test developed over several decades of empirical research by Raymond B. Cattell, Maurice Tatsuoka and Herbert Eber.
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References
Also known as Children's personality, Cross-cultural studies of personality, Human personality, Personailty, Personality style.