Talk:Personality/Archives/2013

Holland

I noticed that Holland was mispelled. I looked it up, to double check, and then corrected it. I plan to write an article on John L. Holland however, with my my summer class and comps comming up, it may be a good while. --Joseph Wayne Hicks 03:44, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Personality development

I'd like to see information about how personality develops added to this article/section. Also, whether a person's personality changes and the change can be controlled (e.g. can an introvert purposely change to an extravert).

= Yes to merging in my draft for this page.--Janarius 01:46, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

IT IS BALAMURUGAN

AID to Personality?

To the problem of cleaning up, beefing up, and organizing this section, I'd be glad to one of those who takes it on but I need to know about the "comprehensive" nature of the page. Most pages I have seen in WP are quite cursory, then some are truly encyclopedic (e.g., astronomy). So, I propose that a general outline with focus on history of and list of current approaches and controversies. These would be linked to seperate pages(?) so that the head page isn't too large. My approach would be fairly academic, as a base, and brances out to controversies and new developments. These two areas are where I think WP is ahead of the game to other standard sources which have quite a lag with new developments. So, what do people think? Any helpers? I like the idea of the Holland article (be careful to disambiguate him from John H. Holland of complexity theory). Rsugden 23:42, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Another YES

Seems obvious to me. HalD 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC) Halcatalyst

And Another Yes

It seems to me that the Personality page should be the primary page with the personality psychology merged in. The Personality page mentions the Big Five anyway so it would just be a case of beefing that up a bit and adding the other bits of info in as appropriate. Thats what I reckon anyway. --Catz747 18:09, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Merge

I was very surprised to look up "personality" only to find this "disambiguation" page, which sometimes happens with Wikipedia when certain innocuous subjects gets "disambiguated up"... probably because someone thought they were being clever or that they were being pedantic. Well they were not, Wikipedia is used by the general public for general purposes; if I wanted an expansion (an encyclopaedia article) on the meaning of the word "personality" as used by the general public, then that is what I should be getting, not some ambiguous disambiguation page (excuse the pun).

Whilst the other links on this page are... well.. helpful as "related" links, the big irony is that they already ASSUME you know... quite an extent about what "personality" is. But say I was an alien - how would I know which of those articles to click, if I had no "pre-conception" at all of what "personality" was? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.255.15.241 (talk) 08:44, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

You're an alien?!! I don't think that's our target demographic.

Seriously though, personality is used fuzzily by the general public. Here, we list the specific meanings that we have articles on. You probably want the first link, Personality psychology, or, personality trait theory. I've tentatively moved them to the top of the page, for greater visibility. (In wiki-rule terms, per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC) -- Quiddity (talk) 18:27, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

personality is the product of surrounding and mainly ourself. by sowmiya —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.178.128.83 (talk) 14:06, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Personality

I was surprised by the lack of direct information on this page. Although it does provide links to more pages on similar topics, I would like to see some of that information added to this page. I think a brief description of personality theorists different definitions, as well as some information on how they believe and theorize personality is developed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rem448 (talk • contribs) 14:51, 30 March 2012 (UTC)