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What correlation research has been done on MBTI vs Big5?
The MBTI can be considered to be subsumed by the Big5/Five-Factor Model. McCrae and Costa examined this back in the late 1980’s. First of all, they showed that the types do not interact in a ...
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Are mentally ill people more violent?
'Mental Illness' covers such a broad range of illnesses that it would be very difficult to answer your question. However, general consensus is that: people who are receiving an effective treatment ...
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What is the relationship between rejection sensitive dysphoria and ADHD?
Upon closer examination, it appears that Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is a term that was coined by Dr. William Dodson to describe the phenomenon of rejection sensitivity in ADHD sufferers. It does ...
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Is there a reasonable scientific backing for Carl Jung's type theories?
It appears that there is little scientific backing for Jung's theories. As these theories were first suggested at the start of the 20th century they have had a considerable amount of time to receive ...
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Why are trans-women more common than trans-men?
Short answer: It might be genetic.
Human sexual behaviour, especially where stigma and taboos are involved, is notoriously difficult to study, so the real answer is that we just don't know. However, ...
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What are the real motives of people helping to each other?
TLDR
While I have provided a full answer explaining Karpman's Drama Triangle, you can skip that and go to the last heading (Your question).
Basis of my answer
If you are approaching this question as a ...
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Is there an open-source / free official Myers-Briggs assessment I can adopt?
The Open Extended Jungian Type Scales is a open source alternative to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
The Open Extended Jungian Type Scales was developed to be an open source alternative to the ...
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Are mentally ill people more violent?
There are certain illnesses which are associated with violence, or have aggression as a symptom (which will not always result in physical violence). Especially the Cluster B personality disorders come ...
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What is the correlation between self-monitoring and the Big 5 factors of personality?
I did a quick search and found the following:
Barrick et al (2005) (see Table 1). In a sample with a little over a hundred MBA students they obtained the following correlations with self-monitoring:
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How strong is the correlation between selfies and narcissism?
Table 1 of Fox and Rooney (2015) report this correlation between selfies posted on social networks and narcissim to be r = .19 in a sample of 800 U.S. men, (mean age = 29, SD = 6.5). I.e., the ...
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How can we be formed by our childhood's environment if we don't remember much of it?
It all comes down to the type of memory.
Infantile amnesia is largely associated with the loss of episodic memory, a type of explicit memory that can be consciously recalled (eg, remembering a past ...
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Why are trans-women more common than trans-men?
Exactly like you, I would like to begin by saying that I have no animosity nor prejudice against anyone. What I am saying below is not meant to be offensive to anyone, it is just an honest account of ...
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What is the basis behind the idea of Dom-Tert loops in Jung Function Theory?
Has dom-ter loops theory been expressed formally in any kind of Jungian function theory study?
Based on a reasonably diverse search of Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus, I am concluding that ...
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Why do most people laugh with a "ha" sound?
Since this question has been unanswered for quite some time I will try to provide an acceptable approximation to an answer. Excuses beforehand for the many block quotes but it is not my area of ...
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Which personality trait(s) characterize high need for external validation?
The Big Five model (OCEAN) of personality is based on statistical analysis of a person's tendency to agree or disagree with short descriptive statements, and consists of the following component ...
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What is the relationship between rejection sensitive dysphoria and ADHD?
You might want to look at
Bondü, R. & Esser, G. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry (2015) 24: 185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-014-0560-9
The authors found fairly compelling evidence of a latent ...
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Why do people have different personalities when speaking different languages?
That is a really interesting question. There are some studies that found that the emotional response is strong in one's native language compared to languages that are acquired later. For instance, a ...
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What are the correlations between HEXACO and NEO-PI factors?
Based on n = 290, I found this correlation matrix in Gaughan et al (2012) (I think the adjusted R-squareds are for regression models predicting domain scores from the domains of the other measure; e.g....
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Why was MPD changed to DID?
DID is one of the most controversial psychiatric disorders, with no clear consensus on diagnostic criteria or treatment. To answer your question on why MPD was renamed DID, for completeness, there is ...
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Why do some people refuse to wear their seat belt while being aware of the risks?
I think this is a rather difficult question to answer. Psychology Today sums up some interesting reasons why people totally aware of the risks involved in not wearing a seat belt (or in smoking ...
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What disorder might be considered opposite of the Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Diagnosis of personality disorders in general is moving away from a categorical system (patient does or does not have the disorder), to a dimensional system (patient scores extreme on personality ...
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What characterises people who stay calm in crisis situations?
This is measured with the Big5 Neuroticism#6 facet: Vulnerability.
This trait measures how an individual reacts to stress, including emergency situations:
High scorers on Vulnerability experience ...
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Is the Myer Briggs Type indicator (MBTI) a reasonable scientific theory?
Absolutely not. And, unlike claimed in other answers, it's about as based on Carl Jung as me whistling out of tune would be "work based on Mozart."
The MBTI was "developed" by a "psychic medium" who ...
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Are there working computational frameworks for human behavior and personality?
Cognitive Architectures
The description most closely matches the concept of a cognitive architecture. Whereas I would say most empirical cognitive science focuses on isolating cognitive functions or ...
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