PSYC 231 Chapter 3: Personality Traits

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 231
• Professor: Ronald R Holden

Document Summary

Openness consists of sophistication, artistic, intellectual interests, and intelligence. Intelligence can also be a factor of conscientiousness based on culture. Rational, logical, clear-minded, and mature are different from cognitive ability or iq. There are individual differences in how people perceive and process information about the social world (called emotional intelligence) For up to 75% of people spirituality is more than a belief or attitude, it is a core part of who they are. Spiritual transcendence: the ability of individuals to stand outside of the immediate sense of time and place to view life from a larger, more objective perspective . The scale has three facets: prayer fulfillment, feelings of joy, contentedness from connection. Suggests that spiritual transcendence is a dimension of personality separate from the big five. Sexy seven: seven sexuality factors found by schmitt and buss: sexual attractiveness, relationship exclusivity, gender orientation, sexual restraint, erotophillic disposition, emotional investment, sexual orientation.