Goals
My goal with Connecting Personality is to create an accurate, interconnected theory of personality that
seeks to both simplify learning about personality science aswell as expand our current understanding of
it.
There are many systems that exist now which try to uncover how personality is formed and changed over
time. These systems
also seek to understand how personality differences affect the decisions, actions, and behaviors people
display.
Thus, by combining these different theories and areas of study we might not only get a more
comprehensive picture
of what is happening inside our minds, but we may also discover more about the existing theories in a
light we may not have
otherwise.
How can I help?
One thing that is needed to further our understanding of how these systems influence each other is data.
In order to form hypotheses and refine our understanding, we need to have accurate examples from real
people
that are willing to contribute. As of right now, there are few ways to meaningfully
contribute information
about yourself towards this goal. This is where Connecting Personality comes in.
Along with developing and combining theories, Connecting Personality has several assessments you can
participate in
to provide us with information that you benefit from along with the field overall. All assessments can
be taken anonymously or
not by providing an email with your submission.
Afterwards your information will be processed and published to other sites dedicated to displaying the
information for
educational purposes. Again, this entire process can be completed anonymously if that is what you
prefer.
What next?
If you are interested in helping you may visit the other websites under
the "Other Pages" tab.
Each project is self contained and will explain what to do from there.
If you would prefer not to submit anything you can still benefit from browsing the other projects as
there is plenty of interesting content to take in.
What are these other projects?
As of right now, I have 3 other resources live.
Anxiety Sources Assessment
Everyone experiences anxiety in their lives. Some experience it as frequently as
multiple
times
a day,
and others experience it infrequently such as daily or weekly. The spectrum of anxiety
experiences is massive
and can have extreme effects on an individuals life events and mental health.
This assessment will test how often you experience the 10 different forms of anxiety.
Understanding
which
forms of anxiety you experience most often can give you the information necessary to reduce your
experience
of anxiety and implement behaviors that will combat the negative feelings.
Communication Styles Assessment
Communicating with others is an absolute necessity in all of our lives. Whether it be family,
friends, co-workers,
class-mates, or any other individual, we talk to and interact with a myriad of people everyday
of
our lives.
In these interactions, we either knowingly or not use tactics to influence the converstation to
go
the way we want
it to. Conversations can be broken into 4 different categories. Control, Cooperate, Captitulate
or
Confront.
We can actively choose what style to use when and often have favorites that we use most often
withut
realizing it.
The choice of communication style we use can lead a conversation in different directions leading
to
an almost
ebb and flow where we are pushing or pulling our conversation partner somewhere while they do
the
same to us.
This assessment will help you identify which communication styles you use and under-use and can
give
you
direction as you continue your self-development journey.
Interactive Brain Guide
The brain has always been one of the hardest mysteries for science to measure and understand.
Modern day
technology has been advancing, making it easier to read and learn about how our brains operate.
Using a book titled: "Neuroscience of Personality" by Dr. Dario Nardi, I have made an
interactive
app that allows
you to quickly and easily read about the different functions our brain performs as well as what
those functions
mean for our personality. There is still much to learn and there are ground-breaking
developments
being made in the field
as we speak so this project could easily grow as our understanding does.
Another note: This book makes a case for thinking of function theory as the differences in what
regions of our brain
we use most often and most proficiently. This research also suggests that cognitive psychology
and
function theory
may share some connective tissue, potentially leading to a more robust theory being developed.