Personality

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Dr. Joseph Kable provided an overview of different approaches to studying personality in Neuroscience. I will only touch on one since the others were a little unclear to me. One approach was using fMRI/BOLD studies of the brain correlated to different states or moods known as the “big five”

(1) Neuroticism
“I have frequent mood swings.”

(2) Extraversion
“I don’t find it easy to take charge of a situation” (reversed)

(3) Openness
“I enjoy trying new and foreign foods.”

(4) Agreeableness
“Most people I know like me.”

(5) Conscientiousness
“I keep my belongings neat and clean.”

These states seemed to correlate to different brain areas

 

 

About Dean G. Blevins

Dr. Dean G. Blevins currently serves as Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship at Nazarene Theological Seminary. An ordained elder, Dean has ministered in diverse settings and currently also serves at the USA Regional Education Coordinator for the Church of the Nazarene. A prolific author, Dr. Blevins recently co-wrote the textbook Discovering Discipleship and edits Didache: Faithful Teaching, a journal for Wesleyan Education.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s