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Psychological characteristics of an individual
Personality describes the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that make up a person's unique time-dependent adjustment to life. Personality is relatively stable, but can change over time due to experiences and developmental processes. Although there is no consensus on the definition of personality, most theories in personality focus on traits, motivation, skills, and identity. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PersonalityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Roles of Personality Traits, AI Anxiety, and Demographic Factors in Attitudes toward Artificial IntelligenceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Think and Grow RichThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domainsCited 6,219 times
- Go sideways: Extraversion and introversionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Big Five personality traitsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Of people, a set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
Noun Of people, charisma; qualities that make a person stand out from the crowd.
Noun Of inanimate or abstract things, a set of qualities that make something distinctive or interesting.
Noun An assumed role or manner of behavior.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains
A social-cognitive approach to motivation and personality.
THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND JOB PERFORMANCE: A META‐ANALYSIS
An alternative "description of personality": The Big-Five factor structure.
Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model
Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers.
The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
The general causality orientations scale: Self-determination in personality
🆕 Influential since 2022
The Roles of Personality Traits, AI Anxiety, and Demographic Factors in Attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence
The General Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence Scale (GAAIS): Confirmatory Validation and Associations with Personality, Corporate Distrust, and General Trust
Attitudes towards AI: measurement and associations with personality
Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies
Understanding the social sustainability of the Metaverse by integrating UTAUT2 and big five personality traits: A hybrid SEM-ANN approach
📚 Books worth reading
Think and Grow RichNapoleon Hill · 1937
The Richest Man in BabylonGeorge S. Clason · 1926
The science of getting rich, or, financial success through creative thoughtWallace D. Wattles, Ruth L Miller · 1910
The Power of Your Subconscious MindJoseph Murphy · 1963
Rich Dad, Poor DadRobert T. Kiyosaki · 1990
Se questo è un uomoPrimo Levi · 1947
The Hiding PlaceCorrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill · 1971
Atomic HabitsJames Clear · 2016
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- Big Five personality traits In psychology and psychometrics, the Big Five personality trait model or five-factor model (FFM), sometimes called by the mnemonic acronym OCEAN or CANOE…
- Personality type In psychology, personality type refers to the psychological classification of individuals. In contrast to personality traits, the existence of personality…
- Psychological Types Psychological Types (German: Psychologische Typen) is a book by Carl Jung that was originally published in German by Rascher Verlag in 1921, and translated…
- Eysenck Personality Questionnaire In psychology, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) is a questionnaire to assess the personality traits of a person. It was devised by psychologists…
- Trait theory In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality. Trait theorists are primarily interested…
- Personality development Personality development encompasses the dynamic construction and deconstruction of integrative characteristics that distinguish an individual in terms…
- Surgency Surgency is a temperament dimension that considers an individual’s disposition toward positive affect. The APA Dictionary of Psychology defines it as "a…