Personality

Question 1

What is Personality?

Answer 1

A person’s general style of interacting with the world.
Doesn’t change over a lifetime.
People think they can evaluate personalities e.g. “Guess Steve’s personality”
Microsoft employees were asked to describe their CEO - 1000s of answers with >700 adjectives.

Question 2

What is MBTI?

Answer 2

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Extrovert-Introvert
Sensing-Intuitive
Thinking-Feeling
Judging-Percieving

Creates a dichotomy
Fails to predict outcomes
Not scientifically based

Question 3

What is the 5 Factor model?

Answer 3

A measure of Personality.
Extraversion
Emotional Stability (calm, self-confident and secure)
Conscientiousness (Responsible, Persistent, Reliable)
Agreeableness
Openness

The first three correlate with income and generally they predict outcomes across cultures.

Question 4

What determines Personality?

Answer 4

Heredity and Environmental Factors
NOT Aging
Heredity is most dominant.

Question 5

Why might personality testing for job applicants not work? Other than social media, what other predictors of performance can be used?

Answer 5

Personality Faking - people lie or mis-remember their own actions. Personality feeds into Motivation and Ability, which are better predictors of performance. Previous academic record is a good measure of motivation.

Question 6

Which elements of the 5 factor model predict income?

Answer 6

Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Emotional Stability correlate positively with income.

Question 7

What job outcomes can Personality affect?

Answer 7

Job satisfaction
Job performance
Income
Workplace Wellbeing

Question 8

Why shouldn’t companies use MBTI to measure applicants?

Answer 8

Applicants lie or mis-remember and consistently appear more extraverted, emotionally stable, conscientious and open. This is called personality faking.
MBTI is also not scientifically based and does not predict job performance.

Question 9

How might Big Data be used to hire someone?

Answer 9

Facebook Profiles can be correlated with the big 5 personality traits. However, this can be unethical and doesn’t work for people who don’t have FB.

Question 10

The MBTI indicators are E-I, S-I, T-F, J-P. What do these stand for?

Answer 10

Extrovert-Introvert
Sensing-Intuitive
Thinking-Feeling
Judging-Percieving

Question 11

The MBTI indicators inclued Extrovert-Introvert, Sensing, Intuitive, and Judging-Percieving. What is missing?

Answer 11

Thinking -Feeling

Question 12

What are the problems with the MBTI test?

Answer 12

It creates a false dichotomy, fails to predict outcomes, and is not scientifically based.

Question 13

What is the opposite of ‘Sensing’ on the MBTI?

Answer 13

Intuitive.

Question 14

What is the opposite of ‘Percieving’ on the MBTI?

Answer 14

Judging

Question 15

What is the opposite of ‘Feeling’ on the MBTI?

Answer 15

Thinking

Question 16

What is the missing pair from these MBTI indicators?
Sensing-Intuitive
Thinking-Feeling
Judging-Percieving

Answer 16

Extrovert-Introvert

Question 17

Conscientiousness, Extraversion and ____ correlate positively with income

Answer 17

Emotional Stability

Question 18

The Big 5 include extraversion, emotional stability and openness. What are the other 2?

Answer 18

Agreeableness, Conscientiousness

Question 19

What is conscientiousness on the big 5?

Answer 19

Responsible, Persistent, Reliable. It correlates positively with income.

Question 20

Does Openness correlate with income?

Answer 20

No. Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability do.

Question 21

Does Agreeableness correlate with income? What about leadership?

Answer 21

Agreeableness does not correlate strongly with income. If anything, it predicts a lower income. Agreeableness correlates negatively with leadership.

Question 22

What is Emotional Stability on the big 5?

Answer 22

Calm, self-confident and secure. It correlates positively with income.

Question 23

Big 5 is good because it predicts outcomes across different ____

Answer 23

Cultures.

Question 24

What is the J-P of MBTI?

Answer 24

Judging-Percieving

Question 25

MBTI includes extrovert-introvert, sensing-intuitive and __

Answer 25

Judging-Percieving

Thinking-Feeling

Question 26

What Big 5 traits do people overexagerate when applying to a job?

Answer 26

extraverted, emotionally stable, conscientious and open

Question 27

Other than personality faking, why might academic record be a better predictor of performance than personality tests?

Answer 27

Academic record predicts motivation and ability better than personality.

Question 28

Sometimes people lie when completing personality tests. What is this called?

Answer 28

Personality Faking

Question 29

Does Conscientiousness predict income?

Answer 29

Yes, along with Extraversion and Emotional Stability.

Question 30

Does Openness to Experience predict income?

Answer 30

No. Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Emotional Stability do.

Question 31

What is Thinking/Feeling on MBTI?

Answer 31

Logic/Emotion

Question 32

What is Judging/Percieving on MBTI?

Answer 32

Control/Adaptability

Question 33

What is Sensing Intuitive on MBTI?

Answer 33

Detail orientated/Bigger picture.

Question 34

What are the flaws with an explicit control system?

Answer 34

Rules and Laws can never be complete and there will always be gaps.

Question 35

How does culture supplement an explicit control system?

Answer 35

An explicit control system will have gaps in the rules. Culture provides an implicit control system that tells people how to behave when the rules don’t explicitly do so.