Emotions: What Makes Emotions Distinctive?
Emotions are unbidden, influenced by both our phylogeny (instinctual evolutionary history) and our ontogeny (the environment in which we matured). Emotions are triggered without our being able to have much influence over the process. Emotions have f...
The Search for Intelligence: Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
To uncover different facets of intelligence Robert Sternberg developed the triarchic theory exemplified by three of his students at Yale. The first, Alice, was good at taking tests, strong in memory and analytical skills, but not good at coming up w...
The Enduring Self: Personality Traits-The Big Five
Today's personality researchers are mainly interested in investigating the basic dimensions of personality and its connection to behavior. They start with a few characteristics that are stable over time and can be captured by a few dimensions. The m...