Colin DeYoung || Cybernetics and the Science of Personality
The Psychology Podcast
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🗓️ 5 April 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m really excited to have Colin DeYoung on the podcast. Dr. DeYoung is associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in personality psychology but is especially interested in personality neuroscience. Besides being a prolific academic and researcher, I am also honored to count him as a dear friend and collaborator.
In this episode we discussed wide-range of topics relating to personality, including:
- The modern day personality hierarchy
- The “Big Two”: Stability and Plasticity
- How Carl Jung developed his theory of introversion
- The latest science of introversion
- The scientific validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Dopamine as the “neuromodulator of exploration”
- The two major dopamingeric pathways
- Why personality variation evolved
- The neuroscience of conscientiousness
- The link between compassion and imagination
- The neuroscience of anxiety
- The cybernetics of personality
- Rethinking psychopathology
- The effects of therapy on personality change
Links
The neuromodulator of exploration: A unifying theory of the role of dopamine in personality
Personality neuroscience and the biology of traits
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Psychology Podcast, where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman and in each episode I have a conversation with a guest who will |
| 0:20.1 | stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in. |
| 0:25.0 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | Today I'm really excited to have Colin DeYoung on the podcast. Dr. |
| 0:36.6 | DeYoung is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. |
| 0:40.4 | He specializes in personality psychology, but is especially interested in personality neuroscience. |
| 0:45.6 | Besides being a prolific academic and researcher, I'm also honored to count him as a dear friend and collaborator. |
| 0:52.0 | Hey, thanks so much for appearing on the Psychology Podcast, Colin. |
| 0:56.0 | Thanks for having me, Scott. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 0:59.0 | Wow, yeah, I'm excited to chat with you and your body of work is truly impressive and you've covered so many different aspects of the personality hierarchy. |
| 1:10.0 | In fact, I thought we could just start there because I don't think a lot of people are really aware of modern day personality research. |
| 1:16.5 | They certainly don't view it as a hierarchy. |
| 1:19.0 | I thought maybe you could discuss a little bit about sort of how personality is a hire? |
| 1:24.0 | Sure, yeah. So when I talk about what I study, I usually say that I study the |
| 1:30.4 | structure and sources of personality. |
| 1:33.4 | And so what you're asking about |
| 1:35.1 | is on the structure side. |
| 1:36.5 | And that's sort of about what are the important |
| 1:39.1 | components of people's personality |
| 1:41.3 | and how are they related to each other? |
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