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personality
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the structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior
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cultural values
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shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture
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Big Five factors to summarize personalities
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Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness to experience, Extraversion
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Consienctiousness
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dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking
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Agreeableness
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kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, courteous, warm
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Neuroticism
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nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, jealous, unstable
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Openness
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curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, sophisticated
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Extraversion
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talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, dominant (nature decides) |
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accomplishment striving
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strong desire to accomplish task-related goals as a means of expressing personality
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communion striving
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strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as means of expressing personality
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zero acquaintance
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situation where two people have just met
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status striving
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reflects a strong desire to obtain power and influence within a social structure as a means of expressing personality
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positive affectivity
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dispositional tendency to experience pleasant, engaging moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation
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negative affectivity
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dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant moods such as hostility, nervousness, and annoyance
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differential exposure
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neurotic people are more likely to appraise day-to-day situations as stressful
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differential reactivity
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neurotic people are less likely to believe they can cope with stressors
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locus of control
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whether people attribute the causes of events to themselves or to the external environment
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interests
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expressions of personality that influence behavior through preferences for certain environments and activities
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culture
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shared values, beliefs, motives, identities and interpretations
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ethnocentrism
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propensity to view one's own cultural values as right and those of others as wrong
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typical performance
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performance in the routine conditions that surround daily job tasks
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maximum performance
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performance in brief, special circumstances that demand best effort
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situational strength
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strong situations have clear behavioral expectations, incentives, or instructions that make differences between individuals less important whereas weak situations lack those cues
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trait activation
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some situations provide cues that trigger the expression of a given trait
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integrity tests
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personality tests that focus specifically on a predisposition to engage in theft and other counterproductive behaviors (honesty tests) |
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clear purpose tests
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ask applicants about their attitudes toward dishonesty, beliefs about the frequency of dishonesty, and confessions of past dishonesty
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veiled purpose tests
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don't reference dishonesty explicitly but instead assess more general personality traits that are associated with dishonesty acts
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faking
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exaggerating your responses to a personality test in a socially desirable fashion
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