Trait approach to personality

Trait

Challenges to the trait approach

The person-situation debate

Three main parts to the situationist argument

Predictability

Situationism

Fundamental attribution error

People with high extraversion and low neuroticism

Physical health and longevity

Psychopathology

High openness and low conscientiousness

High neuroticism

High neuroticism and low extraversion

Low agreeableness and low extraversion

Extraversion

Neuroticism and low agreeableness in romantic relationships

Conscientiousness and agreeableness in romantic relationships

Extraversion and romantic relationships

Extraversion and occupation

Agreeableness and occupational choice

Openness and occupational choice

Conscientiousness and job performance