Your true self: mercurial you

• Autores: Emma Young
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3122, 2017, págs. 29-33
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Most people consider their personality to be an integral and unchanging part of who they are--perhaps the essence of that thing they call the self. In 1887, psychologist William James went so far as to argue that it becomes "set like plaster" by the age of 30. His idea stuck. Psychologists have long debated how to measure personality, settling eventually on the "big five" traits. But at least they were able to agree on a definition: personality refers to an individual's thought patterns and behaviors, which tend to persist over time. Here, Young features the factors that shape one's personality