Personality theories

three antisocial personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy

relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature" in the sense of nativism or innatism) as compared to an individual's personal experiences ("nurture" in the sense of empiricism or behaviorism)

personality trait characterized by high sensory processing sensitivity

capacity to know oneself and to know others

approach to the study of human personality

school of psychoanalysis rooted in Sigmund Freud's structural id-ego-superego model of the mind

theory of personality development viewing psychological tension and anxiety as necessary for growth

view asserting that the human person presents themself in many different aspects or hypostases

theories of psychology that critique the postulate of empiricism that the mind passively produces, through perception and knowing, a copy of reality

theory of personality and cognition

measure of drive and perserverance through difficult challenges

Self-monitoring, a concept introduced in the 1970s by Mark Snyder, describes the extent to which people monitor their self-presentations, expressive behavior, and nonverbal affective displays. Snyder held that human beings generally differ in substantial ways in their abilities and desires to engage in expressive controls (see dramaturgy). Self-monitoring is defined as a personality trait that refers to an ability to regulate behavior to accommodate social situations. People concerned with their expressive self-presentation (see impression management) tend to closely monitor their audience in

psychometric model for analyzing categorical data

personality model hypothesizing the existence of the behavioral inhibition system (sensitivity to punishment, avoidance motivation) and the behavioral activation system (sensitivity to reward, approach motivation)

Self-concealment is a psychological construct defined as "a predisposition to actively conceal from others personal information that one perceives as distressing or negative". Its opposite is self-disclosure.