PS271 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Perfect Sense, Heredity, Personality Psychology
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Chapter 3: hexaco: the six dimensions of personality. 6 broad categories of personality characteristics-the hexaco personality factors. This (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s that (cid:449)e (cid:272)ould su(cid:373)(cid:373)a(cid:396)ize so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455) (cid:396)athe(cid:396) (cid:449)ell (cid:271)(cid:455) assessi(cid:374)g his/her level on each of those 6 dimensions. But this leads to the same kinds of questions that we used to ask ourselves about the. Each of these factors is a dimension- a continuum. We des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)e people as (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:862)high(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)lo(cid:449)(cid:863) o(cid:374) a gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) di(cid:373)e(cid:374)sio(cid:374), (cid:271)ut do(cid:374)"t take this to mean that people come in 2 distinct groups. Instead, most people are somewhere in between, with relatively few people at very high or very low levels. Dist(cid:396)i(cid:271)utio(cid:374) of people"s le(cid:448)els o(cid:374)e a(cid:272)h fa(cid:272)to(cid:396) is fai(cid:396)l(cid:455) (cid:272)lose to (cid:449)hat statisti(cid:272)ia(cid:374)s (cid:272)all the normal distribution-the familiar bell-shaped curve. There are times and pla(cid:272)es i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h people ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g the (cid:862)high(cid:863) pole of a di(cid:373)e(cid:374)sio(cid:374) (cid:449)ould be better suited to their environment; in other places, the low pole would be better.
