PSYC 3370 (PSYC 3370)

Discusses misconceptions about evolution and personality, natural selection and personality, adaptive problems, need to belong, social anxiety and self esteem, helping and altruism, inclusive fitness, universal emotions and evidence that supports this, reproductive value influences on behavior. Evolution part 2 - individual differences, life history theory, trait contingency, sex differences, aggression, sexual selection, jealousy, mate preferences, big 5 relations to evolution. Sex and ge...

Discusses the heritability of personality traits, twin and adoption studies, environmental influence on personality, traits we can predict using environment, gene-environment correlation (passive, reactive, active). Also discusses the pros and cons of doing heritability research on personality. "The Physiology of Personality" - skin conductance, introversion and extraversion as differences in baseline sensitivity, Donlad Hebb's theory of optimal arousal, Reinforcement sensitivity ...

Includes an introduction to the basics of personality psychology. Approaches to personality taxonomies, internal properties versus descriptive summaries, Eysenck's first model of personality, in depth overview of the big 5 personality traits - how it was created, how we use it, and how it measures personality. Includes assumptions of trait theorists, pros and cons of self-report data, informants reports, life outcome, and behavioral observation data. Finally, it includes notes on a the ...