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A beginning to a new model

  • Published: 12-27-2015 Edited: 12-28-2015
  • Introduction

    Formal models of personality are either useless or hard to interpret while informal models tend to be useful and easy to understand.
    We make an effort at creating a useful, interpretable personality-model of formal standards. The focus is on distinct personality-categories or "types" based on falsifiable traits.
    The whole model is based on what gives energy. We try to create distinct personality-factors. All factors have two anti-correlated traits each and all types have different and distinct sets of these traits.
    We try to learn from the previous criticism that personality-typologies have received in the past.

    Ethics and method

    Since the concept of personality affects people so strongly and the fact that our contemporary culture is so focused on identity, individualism and competition we will construe all traits and types as positive and equally positive.
    There will also be no valence-hierarchy between traits or types.
    All traits and types will be motivated by psychology & philosophy, neuroscience, observable micro-expressions and statistical evidence based on results from introspective self-report questionaries.
    We will try to prove traits and types in distinct epistemologies with the intention to establish them ontologically.
    The work is intended to increase interpersonal empathy, interpersonal sympathy, increased conflict-resolution abilities, provide tools for maintaining a healthy state of mind and to be able to understand minds in general.

    We will assume that none of the epistemologies that we use is perfect but by synthesizing them we should be able to get a more certain result:

    1. Philosophy and psychology can sometimes conjecture concepts which have no basis in reality
    2. Introspective self-reporting is not always correct, people can have persistent, statistically significant self-reports that are false
    3. Neuroscientific models are not always accurate but are continuously revised and replaced by new models
    4. Micro-expression interpretation is hard to perform and sometimes some micro-expressions fall between categories, regardless of whom or what performs the reading

    We will also create a map for the brain with different cognitive functions which are meant to be useful when trying to understand changes of mind.
    Then we will go on creating maps of different personalities minds which will have difference in how these functions are used.
    We will then outline different possible empirical experiments that one can do to test the hypotheses in different epistemologies.