Personality Traits

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Personality Traits

• Are personalities the same all over the world?
• MMPI Chinese more emotional reserve,
  introversion, considerateness, social caution,
  self-restraint
• NEO Chinese in Hong Kong Canada. Canadians
  open, cheerful agreeable, differences increased
  with length of time in Canada

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• NEO 26 cultures women more neurotic, agreeable,
  more open to feelings
• Men more assertive, open to ideas
• Surprisingly, sex-differences greater for Western
  countries.

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Chinese Big 5

• Social orientation - agreeableness
• Competence - opposite of neurotic
• Expressiveness - extraversion
• Self-control - agreeableness conscientiousness
  (more focus on controlling negative emotions)
• Optimism - extraversion and neuroticism (reversed)

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Spain

• Positive valence
• Negative valence
• Conscientiousness
• Openness
• Agreeableness
• Pleasantness
• Enagement/Passion

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Thinking

• Asians may see more of the whole - underwater
  shots, wildlife photos
• Asians less likely to express independent points
  of view
• Asian Americans have more trouble thinking while
  talking than European Americans (Kim, 2002)

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The Self

• Self-regard - High in the U.S., Japanese more
  likely to connect well-being with the group,
  Japanese become more engaged in the face of
  failure, Canadians disengage and insist the task
  is not important.
• Consistency - less in collectivist cultures
• absolute - individual variation from one
  situation to another
• relative - individual variation relative to
  others placed in a similar context

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Buddhism

• It isnt all about you
• When a tree falls in the forest and no one is
  there to hear it, does it make a sound?
• I think, therefore I am. Too much emphasis on
  personal experience
• Its all about outside forces - body,
  environment, others, culture
• There is no unchanging soul at the center of
  things

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• Youre part of something much bigger
• The present is equal parts past and future
• Nothing lasts forever
• Compassion, sharing, humility - in the west its
  independence, ambition, pride

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Values

• Are we each free to decide for ourselves, or
  should we rely on a collectivist perspective?

William Tyndale
First      He maintains that faith alone
justifies. Second   He maintains that to
believe in the forgiveness of sins and to embrace
                the mercy offered in the Gospel,
is enough for salvation. Third    He avers that
human traditions cannot bind the conscience,
except                   where their neglect
might occasion scandal. Fourth  He denies the
freedom of the will. Fifth     He denies that
there is any purgatory. Sixth     He affirms
that neither the Virgin nor the Saints pray for
us in their                   own person.
Seventh He asserts that neither the Virgin nor
the Saints should be invoked by us.