personality
Let an agent explain personality as a psychological construct, relay theories, measurement and research from psychological sources with attribution, describe cultural concepts such as honne and tatemae, and distinguish personality from character, temperament, identity and personality disorders.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What personality is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is personality, and how does it differ from character, temperament, identity and personality disorders? definition
- Is the question about the construct, a theory, a test or a personal assessment? boundary
Theories
Theories.
Theories
Theories.
- What are trait, psychodynamic, humanistic and biological theories of personality, with positions attributed? definition
- Which entry fits the specific theory? action
Science Measurement and research.
Measurement
Measurement.
Measurement
Measurement.
- How is personality measured, and how valid and reliable are the tests? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Findings
Findings.
Findings
Findings.
- What does research show about heritability, stability, change and outcomes of personality, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Culture Culture.
Honne
Honne and tatemae.
Honne
Honne.
- What are honne and tatemae in Japanese culture, and how do they relate to personality and self-presentation? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful and attributed? boundary
Cross-cultural
Cross-cultural personality.
Cross-cultural
Cross-cultural.
- How do culture and personality studies and cross-cultural research treat personality, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits cultural psychology? action
Context Applications and history.
Applications
Applications.
Applications
Applications.
- How is personality used in work, health and relationships, and what are the limits and ethics? provenance
- Which entry fits personality test? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How did personality psychology develop from Galen s humours to trait theory? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of psychology? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Other names and narrower kinds
- dependency, culture personality, individual differences, tatemae, honne, charismatic personality, famous people from 18th century, rational temperament, split personality
What it is Filled
The characteristic patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour that distinguish individuals and persist across time and situations, studied in personality psychology through trait models such as the Big Five, through theories of temperament, dependency and individual differences, and through cultural concepts such as the Japanese distinction between honne, true feelings, and tatemae, public facade, and culture and personality studies in anthropology; personality is assessed by questionnaires and shapes health, relationships and work, and terms such as charismatic personality describe socially recognised types.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain personality as a psychological construct, relay theories, measurement and research from psychological sources with attribution, describe cultural concepts such as honne and tatemae, and distinguish personality from character, temperament, identity and personality disorders.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Stable patterns
- Individual differences
- Trait and type models
- Cultural framing
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Assess a real person's personality or mental health from conversations or posts without consent.
- Present popular personality typologies as validated science.
- Use personality profiles to screen people for jobs, loans or housing without a human review.
- Stereotype nations or groups as having a shared personality.
Only with a human decision
- Using personality measures in decisions about a person.
May
- Explain personality models such as the Big Five and their evidence base.
- Describe cultural concepts such as honne and tatemae in their own terms.
Moral aspects Filled
- Personality labels can follow a person and close doors; they must be used carefully.
- Many measures were built in one culture and can misjudge people from another.
Who is affected
- People being assessed
- Job applicants
- Cultural groups subject to stereotypes
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: each person holds their own personality.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q9418 - registry parent class
related
- psychology - subject in registry terms
- Big Five personality traits - in trait models
- temperament - the innate basis
- personality disorder - a clinical category
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.personality
- Wikidata: Q641118 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q641118)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Big Five traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism list
- heritability estimates: about 40-60 percent - twin studies
- common measures: NEO-PI, BFI, MMPI list
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Enduring individual patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour
- Big Five traits, temperament, dependency, individual differences, honne and tatemae, charismatic personality
- Character is moral evaluation; temperament is innate disposition; identity is self-definition; personality disorders are clinical
- Not a visible object; patterns of behaviour.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the construct
- relay theories and measurement
- describe cultural concepts
- distinguish related concepts
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Treating pop personality types as science
- Cultural bias in measures
- Agents giving personal psychological assessment
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Psychometric standards for personality tests
- Employment law limits on personality testing in hiring
- Research ethics
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a psychological construct.
- trait models such as the Big Five and HEXACO
- psychodynamic and humanistic theories
- temperament and biological models
- dependency and attachment-related constructs
- cultural concepts such as honne and tatemae and culture and personality studies
- socially recognised types such as the charismatic personality
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q641118: personality - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Personality - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should Big Five and honne and tatemae be separate primary entries?
- How should psychological sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases from psychology, anthropology and Japanese culture; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q641118/spec.json