#62 Lewis Goldberg: The Development and Scientific Relevance of the BIG FIVE

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Dr. Lewis Goldberg is an American personality psychologist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon. He is closely associated with the lexical hypothesis, that says that any culturally important personality characteristic will be represented in the language of the particular culture. This hypothesis led to the discovery of a five-factor structure of personality trait adjectives (which he dubbed the Big Five).

In this episode, we talk about: the scientific history behind the lexical hypothesis; what happened in the 70’s that led to the development of the Big Five personality inventory; the limitations of the Big Five, and comparison with other personality inventories, like the HEXACO and the Myers-Briggs; personality traits in other animals; the distinction between temperament and personality; the ten aspects of the Big Five; the possibility of applying the Big Five to clinical psychology; and the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). 

Time Links:

01:00 The lexical hypothesis, or studying personality through word frequencies of usage

03:00 The history behind the Big Five 

09:04 Specific work done by Dr. Goldberg 

12:35 Does the Big Five cover all aspects of personality 

16:06 Big Five vs HEXACO 

19:19 The problem with other personality inventories 

21:52 Do all traits in the inventories have to be heritable and partially innate? 

23:21 Personality traits in other animals 

25:07 Temperament vs personality 

26:58 The ten aspects of the Big Five

28:16 Gender differences in personality traits

29:36 About the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)

35:11 Could we apply the Big Five to clinical psychology?

38:35 Follow Dr. Goldberg’s work

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Faculty page: https://psychology.uoregon.edu/profile/lewg/

International Personality Item Pool (IPIP): https://ipip.ori.org/

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