Psychology
Some ideas in the psychological and scientific study of personality include:
- Personality changes
- Personality development, the concept that personality is affected by various sources
- Personality disorder
- Personality genetics, a scientific field that examines the relation between personality and genetics
- Personality pathology, characterized by adaptive inflexibility, vicious cycles of maladaptive behavior, and emotional instability under stress
- Personality psychology, the theory and study of individual differences, traits, and types
- Personality quiz a series of questions (usually multiple-choice, rating scale, or True/False) intended to describe aspects of an individual's character, thoughts, and feelings
- Personality style
- Personality systematics, among subsystems of personality as they are embedded in the entire ecological system
- Personality test
- Personality type, refers to patterns of relatively enduring characteristics of behavior that occur with sufficient frequency
- Personality trait, refers to enduring personal characteristics that are revealed in a particular pattern of behaviour in a variety of situations
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Famous quotes containing the word psychology:
“I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behaviour, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Psychology has nothing to say about what women are really like, what they need and what they want, essentially because psychology does not know.... this failure is not limited to women; rather, the kind of psychology that has addressed itself to how people act and who they are has failed to understand in the first place why people act the way they do, and certainly failed to understand what might make them act differently.”
—Naomi Weisstein, U.S. psychologist, feminist, and author. Psychology Constructs the Female (1969)