Video and Multimedia

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Video 1: Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality.
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Cambridge research professor Brian Little analyzes and redefines the threads of our personalities. This talk was presented at an official TED conference.
 

Video 2: The Science of Personality
Learning Objective: LO 1 & 2
Summary: Featuring the foremost minds in personality psychology and business, The Science of Personality explores what personality is, how it affects our lives and the lives of those around us, and the impact of personality psychology and assessment on leadership and organizational success.
 

Video 3: The psychology of your future self with Dan Gilbert
Learning Objective: LO 1 & 3
Summary: Are you the same person you were ten years ago? Probably not! What about the future – in ten years will you have the same friends, interests and commitments that you have today? While most people would answer YES to this question, Dan Gilbert says the reality is something different.
 

Audio 1: Neuroscience of Personality.
Learning Objective: LO 2 & 3
Summary:  In this episode Joel and Antonia interview Dr. Dario Nardi about his brain scan research into personality type he’s called the Neuroscience of Personality.
 

Audio 2:  Personality and Impulsivity in Parkinson's
Learning Objective: LO 1 & 2
Summary: Dr Fahd Baig discusses his latest research in personality disorders and impulsivity with those affected with Parkinson's

Audio 3: Personality Disorders in the DSM-5
Learning Objective: LO 3
Summary: Dr. Thomas Widiger is a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Widiger's research interests include the diagnosis and classification of psychopathology, the dimensional models of personality disorder, and the validity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, or DSM-IV.
 

Website 1: American Psychological Association
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2, 3
Summary: Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole.
 

Website 2: The Encyclopedia of Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2, 3
Summary: Founded in 1997 by Dr. William Palya, the vision for Psychology.org was to both centralize the best online psychology resources and publish original, innovative psychology scholarship.
 

Website 3: Simply Psychology
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2
Summary: Provides a summary of the more prominent theoretical approaches to the study of personality.