<p>Award-winning Professor Mark R. Leary explores the many ways our behavior affects our life through the intriguing science of our personalities.</p>
Why You Are Who You Are: Investigations into Human Personality
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: What Is Personality?
- 02: Key Traits: Extraversion and Neuroticism
- 03: Are You Agreeable? Conscientious? Open?
- 04: Basic Motives Underlying Behavior
- 05: Intrapersonal Motives
- 06: Positive and Negative Emotionality
- 07: Differences in Emotional Experience
- 08: Values and Moral Character
- 09: Traits That Shape How You Think
- 10: Beliefs about the World and Other People
- 11: Beliefs about Yourself
- 12: Personality and Social Relationships
- 13: Consistency and Stability of Personality
- 14: Evolution and Human Nature
- 15: Personality and the Brain
- 16: Genetic Influences on Personality
- 17: Learning to Be Who You Are
- 18: How Culture Influences Personality
- 19: Nonconscious Aspects of Personality
- 20: Personality and Self-Control
- 21: When Personalities Become Toxic
- 22: Avoidance, Paranoia, and Other Disorders
- 23: The Enigma of Being Yourself
- 24: The Well-Adjusted Personality
Taught by
Mark Leary
