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Personality

Index Personality

Personality is defined as the set of habitual behaviors, cognitions and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors. [1]

65 relations: Abraham Maslow, Aggression, Agreeableness, Alfred Adler, Baruch Spinoza, Big Five personality traits, Biological basis of personality, Brain, Carl Rogers, Conscientiousness, Corporation (feudal Europe), Cult of personality, David C. Funder, David Hume, De rerum natura, Differential psychology, Ego depletion, Emotion (journal), Empiricism, Extraversion and introversion, Family, Frontal lobe, Gordon Allport, Guild, Hans Eysenck, Hormone, Human, Human variability, Hypothalamus, John Locke, Journal of Personality, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Kinship, Life satisfaction, Lucretius, Medieval household, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Modernity, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Neuropsychology, Neurotic Personality Questionnaire KON-2006, Neuroticism, Occipital lobe, Offender profiling, Openness to experience, Oxytocin, Personality and Individual Differences, Personality crisis, Personality psychology, Personality rights, ..., Personality style, Pragmatism, Rationalism, Raymond Cattell, Renaissance, René Descartes, Rorschach test, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Self, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Greenblatt, Strange situation, Temperament and Character Inventory, Testosterone, William James. Expand index (15 more) »

Abraham Maslow

Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who was best known for creating 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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Aggression

Aggression is overt, often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage or other unpleasantness upon another individual.

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Agreeableness

Agreeableness is a personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as kind, sympathetic, cooperative, warm, and considerate.

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Alfred Adler

Alfred W. 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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Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza (born Benedito de Espinosa,; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677, later Benedict de Spinoza) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin.

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Big Five personality traits

The Big Five personality traits, also known as the five factor model (FFM), is a taxonomy for personality traits.

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Biological basis of personality

The biological basis of personality is the collection of brain systems and mechanisms that underlie human personality.

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Brain

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.

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Carl Rogers

Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach (or client-centered approach) to psychology.

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Conscientiousness

Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being careful, or vigilant.

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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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Cult of personality

A cult of personality arises when a country's regime – or, more rarely, an individual politician – uses the techniques of mass media, propaganda, the big lie, spectacle, the arts, patriotism, and government-organized demonstrations and rallies to create an idealized, heroic, and worshipful image of a leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.

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David C. Funder

David C. Funder (Ph.D., Stanford University; born 1979) is a psychology professor who has written a number of important textbooks and research articles pertaining to the field of personality psychology.

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David Hume

David Hume (born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.

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De rerum natura

De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.

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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 refers to the idea that self-control or willpower draws upon a limited pool of mental resources that can be used up.

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Emotion (journal)

Emotion is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, which, as its title states, publishes articles relating to the study of emotion.

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Empiricism

In philosophy, empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.

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Extraversion and introversion

The trait of extraversion–introversion is a central dimension of human personality theories.

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Family

Every person has his/her own family.mother reproduces with husband for children.In the context of human society, a family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family" from Latin familia 'family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,' thus also 'members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants,' abstract noun formed from famulus 'servant, slave ') or some combination of these.

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Frontal lobe

The frontal lobe, located at the front of the brain, is the largest of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the mammalian brain.

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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 or merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular area.

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Hans Eysenck

Hans Jürgen Eysenck, PhD, DSc (4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born English psychologist who spent his professional career in Great Britain.

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Hormone

A hormone (from the Greek participle “ὁρμῶ”, "to set in motion, urge on") is any member of a class of signaling molecules produced by glands in multicellular organisms that are transported by the circulatory system to target distant organs to regulate physiology and behaviour.

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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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(from Greek ὑπό, "under" and θάλαμος, thalamus) is a portion of the brain that contains a number of small nuclei with a variety of functions.

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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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Journal of Personality

The Journal of Personality is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering personality psychology.

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association that was established in 1965.

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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.

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Life satisfaction

Life satisfaction is the way in which people show their emotions and feelings (moods) and how they feel about their directions and options for the future.

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Lucretius

Titus Lucretius Carus (15 October 99 BC – c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher.

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Medieval household

Neither Greek nor Latin had a word corresponding to modern-day "family".

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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), as well as the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of Renaissance, in the "Age of Reason" of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century "Enlightenment".

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974.

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Neuropsychology

Neuropsychology is the study of the structure and function of the brain as they relate to specific psychological processes and behaviours.

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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 one of the Big Five higher-order personality traits in the study of psychology.

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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 tool 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 (Oxt) is a peptide hormone and neuropeptide.

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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 crisis

Personality crisis may refer to one or more personality problems.

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Personality psychology

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals.

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Personality rights

The right of publicity, often called personality rights, is the right of an individual to control the commercial use of his or her name, image, likeness, or other unequivocal aspects of one's identity.

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Personality style

Personality style has been defined as "an individual's relatively consistent inclinations and preferences across contexts."Eriksen, Karen & Kress, Victoria E. (2005).

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Pragmatism

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870.

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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".

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Raymond Cattell

Raymond Bernard Cattell (20 March 1905 – 2 February 1998) was a British and American psychologist, known for his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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René Descartes

René Descartes (Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: "Cartesian"; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.

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Rorschach test

The Rorschach test is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.

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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal on psychology.

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Self

The self is an individual person as the object of his or her own reflective consciousness.

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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 treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American Shakespearean, 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 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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Testosterone

Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid.

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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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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality

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