Why You Are Who You Are: Investigations into Human Personality

Why does a simple incident like a traffic jam affect you the way it does? What makes you act the way you do around your friends and family? Why do you often see the world so differently from the way other people see it? The answer to these questions and more really comes down to one thing: your personality. In this 24-lecture course Professor Mark Leary will you help to examine the differences in people’s personalities, where these differences come from, and how they shape our everyday lives. Drawing on research in psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, Professor Leary opens the door to understand how personality works and why. Designed as a fascinating, accessible scientific inquiry, these lectures will have you thinking about personality — your own, and that of the people around you — in a way that’s more informed and that reveals what makes you the kind of person that you are.

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