Personality Theory
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***OCEAN's 5 (Gosling) describes the undisputed presence (and influence) of the Big 5 traits. Costa and McRae (The Stability of Personality) explain how these traits are found to be substantially stable through life. Your own experiences may agree (or perhaps disagree). Yet, Personality Plus (Gladwell) shows us that the issue of personality (and its relationship to behavior) is complex to say the least.****
In 150 to 200 words, do people have a personality at all, and if so, is it stable? If they do, what implications does this have? Defend your response.
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Theoretically it is my belief that people do indeed have personalities, largely due the complex nature of the mind, as well as the interrelated functionality of the different components of the mind, which play a large role in determining an individual's pattern of response to stimuli over time. The emotional ...
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