Scientific Study of Personality

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Scientific Study of Personality Personality is what defines a person and each person has a different type of personality. Personality is not easy to define for each person has a different opinion of what personality means and what defines personality. Psychologist defines personality by using conceptions that each person has in his or her life. “Personality is made up of characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that make a person unique” (Cherry, 2012, p. 1) according to psychologist. Personality defines a person as a human being it is one’s personal identity, which makes each person different from every other person. Methods to Study Personality Personality is not easy to define and can leave unanswered questions to which a person is or what makes a person different from other people. Researchers use several methods to help one determine a person personality. The three most common and used methods are case studies, correlation designs, and experimental designs, or true experiments. The use of these methods help researchers understand different types of personality, behavioral patterns and what type of personality one may have that make him or her unique from others. Case studies Researchers use case studies to understand people and the different types of personality that one may have in his or her life. Case studies are methods that researchers used to understand an individual and his or her personality. “Psychologist feels that in-depth analyses of individual cases, or case studies, are the only way to capture the complexities of human personality” (Daniel Cervone, 2010, p. 44). Case studies involve the client and the psychologist, and the focus is to determine the most important features and structures of the client’s personality. “Case studies inherently are idiographic methods, in that the goal is to obtain a psychological portrait of

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