PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Party Tonight, Decision Points, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Personality psychology- chapter 15 notes personality and social. Interaction: personality interacts with situations in three ways: through selection, evocation, and manipulation of the situation, these three mechanisms can be applied to an understanding of how personality affects interpersonal situations. Following the violation of desire theory, we would predict that people married to others who lack desired characteristics, such as dependability and emotional stability, will more frequently dissolve the marriage. One is similarity in overall personality profile, rather than similarity in individual traits. The second is closeness of match between an individual"s conception of an ideal mate and their partner"s actual personality. Shyness is a common phenomenon, and more than 90% of the population experiences shyness at some point in their lives. Some people, however, seem to be dispositionally shy- High sensation seekers have been found to more frequently choose to enter risky situations. It is well known that aggressive people evoke hostility from others.