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Robinson Erhardt
176 - Brian Little: Personality Psychology and the Big Five Traits
1 hour 48 minutes Posted Dec 13, 2023 at 5:00 pm.
In This Episode…
Introduction
An Interest in Personality
The Origin of The Big Five Personality Traits
What Are The Big Five Traits?
How Do Psychologists Measure Personality?
Is Personality Inherited?
What Is the Ideogenic Self?
What Are Personal Projects in Psychology?
Can We Change Our Personalities?
Managing Our Personal Projects
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Brian Little is Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known for his work on personality psychology and his development of personal project analysis. In this episode, Brian and Robinson discuss the Big Five personality traits, how psychologists measure them, what their predictive power is, and how personal projects give us a new dimension for understanding ourselves. Brian’s latest book is Who Are You, Really? The Surprising Puzzle of Personality (Simon & Schuster, 2017).
Who Are You, Really?: https://a.co/d/cp4QRuE
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