Implicit Personality Traits Tend To Co-Occur In People

The dominant function of the INTJ personality type is introverted intuition. This has played a crucial role in my (albeit rather short) professional life. Ever since I was a toddler, I wanted to become a veterinarian. All of my actions were carried out primarily with this goal in mind, to the point where it was obsessive. I never considered taking any other career path.

Funder (2006) defines personality as a person’s pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior, with psychological mechanisms and underpinnings. Studying personality within the field of social psychology makes logical senses. While the study of personality psychology seeks to determine the various ways that people differ from one another, and figure out individuals from the inside out, personality within social psychology seeks to figure out individuals from the inside out in varying contexts. Personality psychologists deal with one main challenge – there are so many facets to one’s personality that it is hard to view one’s personality within one single lens. Therefore, before exploring personality within the context of social realms, it is important to view the many facets and approaches to examining personality and its variations.

Within my daily interactions in my life, I observed impression management with my younger brother at his basketball tryouts. Impression management is defined as “the communication strategies people use to influence on how others view them” ( Chapter 4, 80). An example of that happened a month ago at my brothers’ basketball tryouts, my brother from what he perceived to me when we

The final impression management tactic that I used was emotion management. Emotion management may have been the most important ingratiation tactic that I used over break at work because at work you must always give your best effort. I would use both deep acting and surface acting to show that I was ready to work in a happy way. I would change the way that I felt before going into work by both drawing new and appropriate feeling from below and by simply making it seem like I was happy to be working. This impression management tactic also made the supervisors see me as a better

This question provided an interesting contrast for the impression management theory. Overall, it seemed that these values and/or norms and expectations are to be adhered to. Although, in certain tribes such as the Cherokee tribe, there may be circumstances where these expectations become less strict. We believe that these values are upheld within formal settings

It can be said that fundamental attribution error is the tendency for observers to overestimate the influence of personal characteristics and to underestimate the influence of situational characteristics. When people are trying to understand and explain what happens in social settings, people tend to view behavior as a particularly significant factor and tend to explain behavior in terms of internal disposition (such as personality traits, abilities, motives, etc.) as opposed to external situational factors, which can be due to focus on the person more than their situation, about which we may know very little, and also know little about how they are interpreting the situation (Fundamental, n.d.). In an internal or dispositional attribution, people infer that an event or a person’s behavior is due to personal factors such as traits,

Looking Past Appearances People are susceptible to making faulty assumptions about others. Intentionally and unintentionally, judgments upon an unfamiliar face is made swiftly. In less than a second, a snap judgement that is “surprisingly hard to budge” is formed in the mind (Highfield, Wiseman, Jenkins). In a phenomenon known as the halo effect, “the perception of positive qualities in one thing or part gives rise to the perception of similar qualities in related things or in the whole.” (Dobrin)

The psychological phenomenon that the study centered around is the FAE, or the fundamental attribution error (also known as the attribution effect or the correspondence bias.) This phenomenon explains the inclination of people to place an emphasis on the internal qualities of a subject rather than external traits. This, however, does not explain or predict the participant’s own behavior or interpretation thereof. Unknowingly, each one of us experiences the FAE on a daily basis. While in traffic, we blame someone cutting us off on their “awful” personality rather than considering the situation or exactly why they were in such a rush. However, if we cut someone off in traffic, we blame it on the situation rather than our own internal habits and traits.

Only after sponsors started to drop out did Sheffield make a stand to refuse Evans return. This tells professional coaches that the media have a great affect on professional decisions and that bad publicity could cause loss of sponsor money. Lance Armstrong contrasts Evans’ behaviour and proves how being unethical can sometimes be accepted by society. After blood doping to help him win multiple races throughout his career, Armstrong came clean to the press and apologised for his actions.

Implicit personality theory, negative halo, attribution theory, ought self, and relational uppers are 5 specific concepts from chapter 3 that relate to the film. Implicit personality theory is “ the theory that we rely on a set of a few characteristics to draw inferences about others and use these inferences as the basis of our communication with them” (Richard and Turner 62). The way a person acts is a way that we believe communicate back. In the short clip of Cipher in the Snow, Cliff was quiet and kept to himself, because of this no one reached out to him.

Lance Armstrong is known for the unmatched ability in the cyclist community, holding seven consecutive titles from 1999 to 2005. Armstrong’s success has gone above and beyond any other cyclist, but what is his antidote for success? After a short retirement and seven titles Armstrong returned to his loved sport. This didn’t go over too well with his teammates and other competitors. A former teammate of Armstrong’s, along with several other cyclist, testified against Armstrong for the use of performance enhancing drugs. If it was not for the testimonies of these cyclists Armstrong would be innocent without a second thought. This is the man who won seven titles without testing positive once in any of them, proving that performance enhancing drug tests have little value in preventing performance enhancers. Armstrong is one of many people who cheated their way around drug tests to beat the system, proving performance enhancing drug testing is a flawed system that needs to be taken out of professional sports.

The government argued that Armstrong’s team breached its sponsorship contract by using prohibited drugs as well as blood transfusions in an attempt to unfairly better his performance, under the law of “reverse” false claims, the team was mandated to return the sponsorship money.

Armstrong was an American hero, he battled cancer, beat it and came back to prove himself as one of the greatest athletes of all time. Lance had won 7 Tour de France within his career and founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation. He was what we pictured when we pictured a fighter, an American hero. Armstrong has shown us his blood, sweat and tears, had built not only the credibility but the goodwill. In the blink of an eye, all of it was gone. It was revealed that Armstrong had been taking performance enhancements to win his races. In one day he had lost 8 sponsorships, he had built his relationships on being a winner, a fighter, accomplishing things no ordinary person could. Admitting to lying to the world meant his credibility vanished. How can you stand behind a man who can’t tell the

Lance Armstrong who lied to everyone for over a decade about doping and other performance enhancement drugs he used over the years. All his awards, medals and other titles he earned over the decade was voided. The most accurate description of how horrible Lance Armstrong is being descripted best by Piers Morgan in the Best Guardian; when Piers Morgan compared Lance Armstrong to Lord Voldemort. JK Rowling described Voldemort as ‘A raging psychopath, devoid of the normal human responses to other people’s suffering. A sadist with no conscience, no remorse; he does not recognize need for human companionship or friendship, and cannot comprehend love or affection for another. He’s incredibly power-hungry. If he looked in the mirror, he would see himself, all

One such concept, impression management, is an effort to give impressions in the mind of others (2). Our impressions that we give or give off can be found on our front stage, the general, fixed part of our performance (2). Both of these concepts are examples of how Goffman relates our actions and their consequences to the social world around us.