Baymax Character Traits

Understanding people’s personality is something that psychologists have been trying to figure out for decades. Although there are many different personality scales created by many different psychologists, one quite popular model in categorizing different aspects of personality is “the Big Five Trait Taxonomy” created by Costa and McCrae in 1992. Originally, this model was adapted from the 16 Traits invented by Cattel and Eysneck’s Three Superfactors (Hope, 2017). The Big Five model consists of five different traits a person can fall that includes extraversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Although this model was created to categorize people, there are also non-humans who can fall into these traits. This paper will analyze Baymax, the …show more content…
Baymax is a robotic healthcare companion created by the brother of the main character of the movie, Big Hero 6. Throughout the movie, he demonstrates almost all of the five traits of the Big Five Trait Taxonomy. Baymax would be considered to be high in agreeableness because in the movie, he demonstrates extraordinary care and warmth towards the main character, Hiro. Since Baymax was created to be a healthcare provider, he was programmed to be very responsive to signs of distress, such as hearing the word “ow” and will do whatever he can to make the person feel better. Also, he does not turn off until whoever he is helping says the words “I am satisfied with my care.” Another trait from the Big Five Taxonomy that he is quite high in is the openness to experience trait. Since he is a robot who would literally do anything to make sure a person is satisfied with their healthcare, he would do silly things such