S2 Ep 60: The Building Block for Personality with Dr. Koraly Perez-Edgar
Raising Good Humans
Voicing Change Media
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:07.4 | Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and I'm thrilled to have a fellow |
| 0:15.0 | Dartmouth alum who is an incredible developmental psychologist. Dr. Perez Edgar is a professor of |
| 0:23.2 | psychology and is interested in the relations between temperament and psychopathology. In particular, |
| 0:31.6 | she studies children with the extreme temperamental traits of behavioral inhibition and shyness |
| 0:38.7 | and social anxiety. She's also really incredible at translating research to everyone. |
| 0:45.3 | So I thought this is the perfect person to have explain temperament. Temperament is part of |
| 0:53.6 | every decision that we make as parents because we have to think about not only our children's temperament |
| 1:00.0 | but also our own temperament and how that fits together. So today's episode we are talking about |
| 1:06.2 | temperament, how to support the child you have, and how to support kids with the temperament |
| 1:13.9 | that they came into this world with. Please don't forget to sign up for dralisa.bulletin.com. I had a |
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| 1:35.6 | rate and write a little review of the podcast. It always is so wonderful for me to see and it helps |
| 1:41.5 | put the podcast out there. Given that we're talking about change over time and who we are |
| 1:48.4 | and how we come to be who we are, can you talk about temperament and I mean dig in from the |
| 1:55.3 | beginning of the highway? Sure. So when you think about temperament, it is not a new idea. |
| 2:05.5 | Right, you can go all the way back to ancient Greek doctors' philosophy where they talked about |
| 2:13.2 | temperament and they used the language that they had at the time. So we can think about temperament |
| 2:20.9 | as an individual's fairly stable across time, across place, way in which they approach the world, |
| 2:32.3 | interact with the world and present themselves to the world. Often, the language that's used |
| 2:40.2 | as temperament is the building block for personality. And so when you go back all the way back |
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