## Personality Psychology ### An Introduction <!-- Put the link to this slide here so people can follow --> **Rizqy Amelia Zein** Department of Personality and Social Psychology slides: https://s.id/personality-psych-1 ---  --- # Course Assessments <div style="text-align: left"> * Creating visual aids for presentation :eyes: * Recalling and reconstructing course material :ledger: * Group project: assessing a famous person's personality :camera: </div> --- # Visual aids <div style="text-align: left"> * Preparing two visual aids as a medium to help you doing a student-led (individual) presentation on the respective reading material :eyeglasses: * You will be given 20 minutes for presentation followed by 50 minutes of discussion and feedback :clock10: * Visual aids could be **infographics, mind-maps, doodle, or sketches.** </div> --- ## Recalling and reconstructing <div style="text-align: left"> * After each presentation, the ==students who are not presenting (or are the audience)==, will be asked to ==write a short 100-word take== on the topic that is previously presented by their peers. * The short essay will be ==collected on the same week==. * The short essay will only be collected in *week 3-8* </div> --- ## Group Project <div style="text-align: left"> * You should work in ==a group consisted of 2 people== and select **one famous person’s personality** based on **his/her auto/biography**. * You can opt for **one particular personality theory (trait paradigm)** as an analysis tool, and ==write a 2000-word essay== containing analysis of their chosen famous person. * You ought to present your main conclusion as a group on week 13 or 14. </div> --- ## What the hell is personality? ### ..and why should you care about it?  --- ## Personality is described as.. <div style="text-align: left"> * The **state of being** a person :information_desk_person: * The **characteristics and qualities** that form a person’s distinctive character :unamused: * The sum total of all the **physical**, **mental**, **emotional**, and **social** characteristic of a person :tada: * The **unique**, **relatively enduring** internal and external aspects of a person’s character that **influence behavior** in different situations :white_check_mark: </div> --- ## Why does it matter? :one: <div style="text-align: left"> * Everybody has one (as long as you are not diagnosed with [dissociative identity disorder](https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder)) * How do we check our own personality? Do we always need a psych test to affirm it? </div> --- ## Why does it matter? :two: <div style="text-align: left"> * Are you the same person as you were... lets say, 10 years ago? * What do you think is different now? * Is personality stable, unique, and thus.. predictable? * Why do you think it's important =="to know yourself?"== </div> ---  --- ## To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom -- Socrates  --- ## Let's try "to know thyself".. <div style="text-align: left"> * Write down as **many adjectives** as you can think of to describe what you are really like. * Try not to write how you would like to be, or what you want your parents or Instagram friends to think you are like. * How many adjectives did you find? </div> --- ## All in all.. <div style="text-align: left"> * You can understand your personality better through others' feedback. :family: * But sometimes, the way we present ourselves publicly does not necessarily align to our real personality. * Would you say personality is ==mere a description of a mask we wear== or ==the role we play==? 🎭 </div> --- ## Are you the same person online? 👩🏼‍💻 <div style="text-align: left"> * Do we **present our real selves** on social media? * Does the **use of social media** influence or change our personalities? * Do people with **different personalities** use social media in different ways? </div> --- ### Social media and the selves 👩‍💻 <div style="text-align: left"> * Social networking sites [**convey accurate images**](https://icwsm.org/papers/3--Gosling-Gaddis-Vazire.pdf) of one's personality profiles. * However, [a study](https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/4273) found that many people have a tendency to present themselves online as being ==much more emotionally stable== than **they really are**. * Those who are [introverted, neurotic, lonely, and socially awkward](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213004354) find it ==easier to express their real personalities== online instead of in person. </div> --- ### What about.. pretty selfies on Instagram? #### Does that an accurate depiction on one's life?  --- ## Does social media affect what we are? :scream: <div style="text-align: left"> * Does social media influence your well-being? * Does it make you feel lonely and depressed? * Does it destroy your life satisfaction and your quality of life? And basically, damage you inside-out? * ..and most importantly, can someone suffer from social media addiction? </div> --- ## Research says, no :exclamation: <div style="text-align: left"> * Digital technology has a [little impact](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1?mod=article_inline) to well being. * Social media use, too, has [a small effect](https://www.pnas.org/content/116/21/10226.short) to life satisfaction. * Even gaming disorder seems like [it's a myth](https://akademiai.com/doi/full/10.1556/2006.7.2018.19). * No, no [generation is doomed](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-media-has-not-destroyed-a-generation/) by the digital technology. </div> --- ## "Social media fucked up your generation"  --- ## [Online disinhibition effect](http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/aps.42) <div style="text-align: left"> * Interacting online means **typical restraints** of ==face-to-face interaction== are **non-existent**. * ODI: **lack of restraint** one feels when ==communicating online== in comparison to communicating in-person. * That's why you **might be surprised** by one's unprecedented actions on social media. * Could be **toxic** or **benign**. </div> ---  --- ### Thank you! :tada: You can find me on: - [My personal website](https://rameliaz.github.io/) - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ameliazein) - [..or email](mailto:amelia.zein@psikologi.unair.ac.id)