โ† Chapter 11
Psychology ยท Chapter 11

What Makes It Personality?

Psychologists define personality as a person's characteristic, enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving. A pattern earns the name “personality” when it does two things: it holds across different situations, and it stays stable over time. Meet Maya, who scores high on extraversion — tap through her world and watch the thread that never changes.

Pick a moment

The rose figure is always Maya; only her surroundings change. The rose line below is her extraversion across every moment — notice it stays above the “average person” dashes.
Consistency across situationstap a setting below