Discussion of personality psychology, different methods of categorising and measuring personality, outline of the 'Big 5 factor model' of personality : extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and agreeableness. I also explain how personality orients your perceptual frame of the world and biases your attention and behaviour. There is a brief discussion of how personality relates to political orientation as well. 

00:00 - intro

01:58 - personality and pathology

03:49 - complexity and personality

05:21 - the Big Five Model

08:00 - introversion/extroversion

10:08 - openness

14:03 - conscientiousness

15:39 - agreeableness

17:38 - neuroticism

20:54 - sociopathy and threat perception

24:02 - emotion regulation

26:19 - living according to one's personality

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