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Four personality types

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Via the BBC we have a claim that humans may be grouped into four personality types.
The team, from Northwestern University, say there are five main traits “commonly accepted by psychologists around the world, known as ‘Ocean’.”

  • Openness – your natural curiosity, whether you’re open to new experiences and learning new things.
  • Conscientiousness – how thoughtful or dependable you are.
  • Extraversion – how outgoing, assertive and sociable you are.
  • Agreeableness – your concern for other people, how sympathetic and considerate you are.
  • Neuroticism – the likeliness of emotional instability, mood swings, feeling depressed, lonely, angry or sad.
The researchers then looked at the data of more than 1.5 million people who’d taken part in personality tests and started plotting where they scored on the five traits given above.

The four “types” of personality they’ve identified feature different combinations of the five main traits. 


Role-model
“These are people that are nice, they are agreeable,” says lead author Professor Luis Amaral. “They are not neurotic and they are open-minded.”

They score highly on the other four traits.

Self-centred

This is almost the mirror-image of the role-model, according to Prof Amaral.

“These are people that are not hard working, they are kind of disagreeable, they are not open minded. They are extroverts.”

Reserved

“They have low neuroticism and low openness,” according to Prof Amaral.

However, they are likely to be conscientious and agreeable.

Average

The one description we probably all fear, but according to the study, one which fits the “typical” person. They score slightly above average on neuroticism and extroversion but lower on openness.

To my mind, conclusions of this general type owe too much to their procedures. This does not make them useless, but sooner or later someone will do it differently and reach different conclusions.


Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2018/09/four-personality-types.html


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