Why You Are Who You Are: Investigations into Human Personality

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What Is Personality?
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29, 2017
In this introductory lecture, ground your understanding of personality in the concept of “proportion-of-variability,” which tells us how strongly related a particular personality .. show full overview
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Key Traits: Extraversion and Neuroticism
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29, 2017
There are five key traits that best help us understand a person's behavior. Here, explore the two traits that give you the broadest picture of what a person is like. The first: .. show full overview
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Are You Agreeable? Conscientious? Open?
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29, 2017
Examine the three remaining building blocks of personality. You'll learn about agreeableness, the degree to which you have a positive or negative orientation toward others; .. show full overview
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Basic Motives Underlying Bahavior
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29, 2017
What motivates you to do the things you do each and every day? Professor Leary explores three motives that instigate and energize people's behavior: the motive to interact with other .. show full overview
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Intrapersonal Motives
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29, 2017
There are other motives that underlie behavior—ones that don’t involve getting anything from the outside world. What are the benefits of these motives? After considering the Freudian .. show full overview
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Positive and Negative Emotionally
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29, 2017
A large part of who you are as a person depends on the kinds of emotions you experience as you walk through life. In this lecture, look at our general tendencies to experience positive .. show full overview
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Differences in Emotional Experiences
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29, 2017
In addition to the general tendency to feel good and bad, we also differ in the degree to which we experience specific emotions such as anger, joy, guilt, and sadness. These tendencies, .. show full overview
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Value and Moral Character
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29, 2017
When we talk about someone's character, we're referring to the degree to which that person tends to behave in ethical (or unethical) ways. In this illuminating lecture, take a look at .. show full overview
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Traits That Shape How You Think
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29, 2017
Turn your attention to cognitive aspects of personality: characteristics related to people's styles of thinking. Here, Professor Leary focuses on four cognitive characteristics that .. show full overview
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Beliefs about the World and Other People
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29, 2017
You are who you are partly because of the beliefs that you hold. Discover several big, broad beliefs that function like personality traits. These include people's beliefs about human .. show full overview
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Beliefs about Yourself
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29, 2017
Your beliefs about yourself have a dramatic impact on how you feel and behave. Take a closer look at four types of self-related beliefs: identity (who you think you are), self-efficacy .. show full overview
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Personality and Social Relationships
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29, 2017
Some of the most important differences among people involve their ways of relating to others. First, examine the differences in people's attachment styles. Then, consider the tactics .. show full overview
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Consistency and Stability of Personality
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29, 2017
People obviously don't act the same way all the time, and personalities do change over the course of a life (at least within limits). Yet people do show stability in how they tend to .. show full overview
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Evolution and Human Nature
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29, 2017
The fact that certain personality characteristics can be seen in almost everybody probably reflects evolutionary processes. Learn why some aspects of behavior became part of a shared .. show full overview
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Personality and the Brain
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29, 2017
All differences we see in people's personalities are based on differences in what's happening somewhere in their brains. Unpack research being done on the neuroscience of personality, .. show full overview
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Genetic Influences on Personality
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29, 2017
Take a closer look at the ways in which the genes you inherited from your parents have contributed to your personality. Topics in this lecture include heritability studies; the role .. show full overview
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Learning to Be Who You Are
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29, 2017
Professor Leary explains four learning processes that influence how people's personalities turn out: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning, and personal .. show full overview
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How Culture Influences Personality
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29, 2017
How might your personality have turned out differently if you'd grown up in a culture different from the one you grew up in? Explore this question by looking at several dimensions on .. show full overview
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Nonconscious Aspects of Personality
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29, 2017
Freud believed that much of what influences our behaviors occurs outside our conscious awareness. To understand people’s personalities, we have to consider unconscious processes—the .. show full overview
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Personality and Self-Control
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29, 2017
People differ in self-control, so understanding how we self-regulate is critical to understanding personality. After learning about the nature of self-regulation, examine the .. show full overview
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When Personality Becomes Toxic
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29, 2017
In the first of two lectures on the three broad clusters of personality disorders, consider the dramatic-emotional-erratic cluster, which includes the antisocial, borderline, histrionic, .. show full overview
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Avoidance, Paranoia, and Other Disorders
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29, 2017
First, learn about a cluster of three personality disorders that involve excessive anxiety: the avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Then, explore a cluster that .. show full overview
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The Enigma of Being Yourself
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29, 2017
Should you try to always be yourself? Can you tell when you’re not being yourself? Professor Leary considers the possibility that authenticity has some serious problems as a .. show full overview
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The Well-Adjusted Personality
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29, 2017
Conclude the course by drawing on much of what you've learned in the preceding lectures to look at the relationship between personality and healthy psychological adjustment. You'll learn .. show full overview