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176 - Brian Little: Personality Psychology and the Big Five Traits
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Brian Little is Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known for his work on personality psychology and his development of personal project analysis. In this episode, Brian and Robinson discuss the Big Five personality traits, how psychologists measure them, what their predictive power is, and how personal projects give us a new dimension for understanding ourselves. Brian’s latest book is Who Are You, Really? The Surprising Puzzle of Personality (Simon & Schuster, 2017).
Who Are You, Really?: https://a.co/d/cp4QRuE
OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
00:57 Introduction
02:53 An Interest in Personality
10:30 The Origin of The Big Five Personality Traits
20:51 What Are The Big Five Traits?
44:37 How Do Psychologists Measure Personality?
58:06 Is Personality Inherited?
01:07:13 What Is the Ideogenic Self?
01:16:09 What Are Personal Projects in Psychology?
01:31:14 Can We Change Our Personalities?
01:42:21 Managing Our Personal Projects
Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support217 episodes
Manage episode 389241604 series 3482062
Brian Little is Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known for his work on personality psychology and his development of personal project analysis. In this episode, Brian and Robinson discuss the Big Five personality traits, how psychologists measure them, what their predictive power is, and how personal projects give us a new dimension for understanding ourselves. Brian’s latest book is Who Are You, Really? The Surprising Puzzle of Personality (Simon & Schuster, 2017).
Who Are You, Really?: https://a.co/d/cp4QRuE
OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
00:57 Introduction
02:53 An Interest in Personality
10:30 The Origin of The Big Five Personality Traits
20:51 What Are The Big Five Traits?
44:37 How Do Psychologists Measure Personality?
58:06 Is Personality Inherited?
01:07:13 What Is the Ideogenic Self?
01:16:09 What Are Personal Projects in Psychology?
01:31:14 Can We Change Our Personalities?
01:42:21 Managing Our Personal Projects
Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support217 episodes
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