Exploring the universality of personality judgments: Evidence from the great transformation (1000 BCE–200 BCE)

• Main Authors: LIN, Stephanie C., KOROGODSKY, Maria
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: History of psychology; Judgmentalism; Person perception; Personality; Cognition and Perception; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Personality and Social Contexts
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5300
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examined whether personality judgments were present in texts of the diverse religious and philosophical traditions that emerged during the Great Transformation, an era spanning roughly 1000 BCE to 200 BCE. Some psychologists have suggested that the tendency of humans to judge personality has evol...