PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psychopathy, Libido, Agreeableness

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Launa C.Leboe- Mcgowan

Document Summary

Personality: consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that define us across different situations and across time. The barnum effect: any personality description presented to us can seem like an accurate description of our personality, because we tend to only think of instances in our lives when the description applied to us. Is strongest when personality attributes are so general, they could apply to anyone: eg. They are never capable of an unkind act or: people who are low on agreeableness are extremely selfish types who only act in order to further their own interests. The horrors of world war ii: provided the early impetus for research into human personality. Af(cid:396)i(cid:272)a"s natio(cid:374)al pa(cid:396)t(cid:455) th(cid:396)ough thei(cid:396) poli(cid:272)(cid:455) of apa(cid:396)theid (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) 1(cid:1013)4(cid:1012) a(cid:374)d 1(cid:1013)(cid:1013)4 the ongoing human rights violations and discrimination experienced by black. Americans segregation, voting rights, white dominance: authoritarian personality: white supremacy.