Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO In 1969, American Psychologist Mary Ainsworth developed a new procedure for studying attachment types in infants. She called her procedure the […]
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Personality Lecture on the Biological Traits of Reward and Neuroticism
In this lecture, I continue my discussion of the relationship between subcortical brain processes and the big five personality traits identified by psychometric researchers, focusing […]
Schaffer & Emerson’s Four Stages of Attachment
Schaffer & Emerson (1964) conducted an observational study of 60 children in Glasgow, Scotland, to understand how babies form and develop attachments. They note that […]
Biology/Traits in Personality: The Limbic System
In this lecture, I begin my discussion of the relationship between brain function, at a deep, subcortical level, and the existence of the five traits […]