Well-being and Personality

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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How much of our personality is bound to our genetic makeup, and how much can we actually change about ourselves? Is there any hope for the notoriously unconscientious personalities in the world? What can we learn about the evolutionary motivators built-in to our goal-directive behaviors? Dr. Colin DeYoung, associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, joins the show to discuss all of that and more. https://deyoung.psych.umn.edu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I tell people, you know, this is a cocktail party situation.
0:03.7	If I tell people that I study, that I'm a psychologist, I study personality, the very first
0:09.3	thing that they ask me is, are you analyzing my personality right now?
0:14.1	Yeah.
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:16.1	Yeah.
0:17.1	I usually lie and say no.
0:18.1	I mean, first I'm analyzing your personality, right?
0:20.8	I mean, that's what humans do.
0:22.4	We analyze each other's personalities.
0:23.4	Yeah.
0:24.4	You know, talk to someone.
0:25.4	I'm probably just a little bit more qualified to do it than they have at church.
0:28.9	Are we, yes, where are we here?
0:32.7	Why are we here not entirely clear?
0:36.0	We are Ms. Fitz, grossed into existence by random chance with no hints at all, as to how
0:42.4	we're supposed to make sense of it all.
0:45.2	It's immensely bizarre.
0:47.4	Here we are.
0:49.4	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the here we are podcast.
0:53.7	This is my third time doing this.
0:56.7	We just fixed some internet connection issues, and now I am truly excited because I'm pretty
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