โ† Chapter 11
Psychology ยท Chapter 11

What Makes It Personality?

Psychologists define personality as a person's characteristic, enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving. A pattern earns the name “personality” when it does two things. It holds across different situations. And it stays stable over time. Meet Maya. She scores high on extraversion. Tap through her world and watch the thread that stays the same.

Pick a moment

The rose figure is always Maya. Only her surroundings change. The rose line below is her extraversion in each moment. Notice that it stays above the “average person” dashes.
Consistency across situationstap a setting below