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Why You Are Who You Are
- Investigations into Human Personality
- Narrated by: Mark Leary
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
To understand the roots of personality is to understand motivations and influences that shape behavior, which in turn reflect how you deal with the opportunities and challenges of everyday life. That's the focus of these exciting 24 lectures, in which you examine the differences in people's personalities, where these differences come from, and how they shape our lives.
Drawing on information gleaned from psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, Professor Leary opens the door to understanding how personality works and why. Throughout his illuminating lectures, five important personality traits come into focus, traits that form the foundation of how psychologists approach the topic of personality: extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness.
Combining psychology with neuroscience and behavioral genetics, this exploration will open your eyes to the myriad ways our traits, motives, emotions, beliefs, and values are shaped by things like our genes, environment, experiences, and evolutionary history. Why is it so hard to change our behavior? Why do people develop different values and morals? Does personality change as we age? Is personality passed down through genes?
Designed as a fascinating, accessible scientific inquiry, these lectures will have you thinking about personality in a way that enriches your understanding of the complex psychological processes that make you who you are.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-03-18
buy is now
100% recommend if anyone is interested in psychology. The narration is fantastic and highly addictive. This is one of the best courses I have listened to so far.
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- Diogenes
- 28-08-18
Not Great Courses Quality
This course felt more like a TED talk and suffers from the "on average" statistical nature of the subject.
Was hoping for a more interdisciplinary approach with more linkage between psychology and neuroscience as well as more depth on both.
Have listened to more than 60 great courses. this is my lowest rating ever
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- Anonymous User
- 19-06-20
Wrong title
A robust story, nicely told and covering an interesting subject. In the series of the great coarses however, this is the least interesting coarse I followed. The explaining of the evident is extensive. For example, the professor keeps explaining what variability is, and what a bell-shaped curve comprises. And this same subject kept coming back through the chapters. Once would have been fine, if not superfluous already. The course is not an explanation “why”, as the titel suggests, but merely a description of “what” people can be like. I would have liked it to be more profound.It would have been nice to have covered some studies that support answers to the “why” or to have mentioned some ideas. Or change the titel in, for example: How to describe who you are”.
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- Sandra Brunet
- 24-04-18
Great content, simply explained
This is my second audio book narrated by Prof. Mark Leary. Some great insights helping to understand why we behave the way we do, explained in a simple and easy to understand way. Thank you.
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- Bee
- 26-02-18
interesting up to a point
Didn't tell me anything I didn't know really but an easy listen. Really wanted to know more about the origins and treatment of personality disorders.
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- Alice ciccone
- 02-05-18
A serie of very interesting lectures
Interesting insights into people behavior. This is a collection of kind of separate lectures. Only in the end of it there is a link between the different things one learn. It is a bit hard to remember and one should listen multiple times.
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- Jakub
- 24-04-18
Absolutely brilliant!
The voice acting is perfect and keeps the listener well engaged. Comprehensive coverage of the topic. A must read for everyone.
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- Sebastian Meiser
- 12-03-18
So far not impressed
I'm not done with the course yet, but so far I find it difficult to listen to the lectures. They are extremely slow paced, individual points are repeated many times in a row and often the reasoning is unclear to me.
I've learned the "big 5" personality traits in many, many words (2 full lectures for listing 5 simple concepts), but in fact they seem to just be an abstraction that mixes large groups of what I'd have considered "actual personality traits" together with factors of the environment, the personal life and current state of the mind of people. Why are they "personality traits"? No idea. How does grouping a lot of factors into "agreeableness" help me understand people? Unclear. Instead I learn that 5*5*5*5*5 is a large number, but I think I knew that already.
In a later lecture I'm presented with seemingly unfounded reasoning as for why a certain internal motivation, e.g., for limiting cognitive dissonance, couldn't have developed, followed by an explanation for exactly why it could have developed: social benefits of consistent behaviour. The actual point (external vs. internal definition) is not clearly motivated and actual evidence only presented as a side note.
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- Tomé
- 16-04-18
Great Overview
Going to give it a second listen for sure. Would have liked more info on the therapies that are available.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-12-18
A thinkers read for people watching
Enlightening and informative... Great for thinkers and people watchers wanting more tools to calibrate their perception of the people around them...
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