Summary of Chapter 15: Personality and Social Interaction, from Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature
Part 5: The Social & Cultural Domain Chapter 15: Personality & Social Interaction
-Emphasis on personality as it is affected by and expressed through social institutions, social roles and expectations, and through relationships with other people in our lives.
-Interpersonal traits have long-term outcomes in our lives. For ex. Whether a person is controlling or easy going can affect aspects from: the conflicts he gets into with his spouse and work partners to the strategies he uses to achieve his goals. Whether a person tends to be nervous or optimistic affects the likelihood of diverse social outcomes, such as divorce or success in a sales career.
-Many of the most important individual (ind) differences and personality traits are played out in our interpersonal relationships.
-3 key processes whereby personality affects social interactions are described:
1. Selection: people may choose specific social environments according to their personalities.
2. Evocation: we determine how people evoke distress, as well as positive feelings, in others.
3. Manipulations: for influencing others. What are the strategies that people use to get what they want from others?
-One important interpersonal context concerns relationships between men and women.
-An essential part of our social identity is our gender.
-Differences between the personalities of men and women have long been of interest to personality psych. Some researchers emphasize that sex differences are small and that the variability within a sex exceeds the variability between the sexes. Other researchers focus on the differences between sexes and emphasize that some are large and are found in different cultures.
-Men tend to score higher on aggressiveness; women tend to score higher on measures of trust and nurturance. Where do sex differences come from?
-“Gender” may actually have its origins in culture, i.e. how society makes up different rules/expectations for men and women.
-Emphasis on personality as it is affected by and expressed through social institutions, social roles and expectations, and through relationships with other people in our lives.
-Interpersonal traits have long-term outcomes in our lives. For ex. Whether a person is controlling or easy going can affect aspects from: the conflicts he gets into with his spouse and work partners to the strategies he uses to achieve his goals. Whether a person tends to be nervous or optimistic affects the likelihood of diverse social outcomes, such as divorce or success in a sales career.
-Many of the most important individual (ind) differences and personality traits are played out in our interpersonal relationships.
-3 key processes whereby personality affects social interactions are described:
1. Selection: people may choose specific social environments according to their personalities.
2. Evocation: we determine how people evoke distress, as well as positive feelings, in others.
3. Manipulations: for influencing others. What are the strategies that people use to get what they want from others?
-One important interpersonal context concerns relationships between men and women.
-An essential part of our social identity is our gender.
-Differences between the personalities of men and women have long been of interest to personality psych. Some researchers emphasize that sex differences are small and that the variability within a sex exceeds the variability between the sexes. Other researchers focus on the differences between sexes and emphasize that some are large and are found in different cultures.
-Men tend to score higher on aggressiveness; women tend to score higher on measures of trust and nurturance. Where do sex differences come from?
-“Gender” may actually have its origins in culture, i.e. how society makes up different rules/expectations for men and women.