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I'm not a psychologist but this sentence: """Modern evidence-based methods in behavioural science adopt the ground principle that people’s behavior mainly depe
by kriro 5y ago
I'm not a psychologist but this sentence:
"""Modern evidence-based methods in behavioural science adopt the ground principle that people’s behavior mainly depend on context."""
doesn't have any source to back it up and is opposed to what I have read about the introvert/extrovert divide which seems to be more genetic than context dependent for example. And those are character traits that directly shape behavior (I'd rather read a book when low on energy vs. go to a party). Maybe someone can clarify this for me. The fact that the author uses "shy" and "outgoing" also doesn't instill much faith in me. The next section even mentions the big five but I don't think these traits are "mainly dependent on context". I'm a bit confused.
Nevertheless, an interesting story/find. The color system seems so obviously ridiculous that it amazes me how popular it got. Lesson learned. People like categories and simple explanations. Coincidentally, that's also one of the main sources of (unintentional) bias.
- sampo 5y ago> """Modern evidence-based methods in behavioural science adopt the ground principle that people’s behavior mainly depend on context.""" Adopting ground principles doesn't sound very evidence-based to begin with.
- yxwvut 5y agoThe ground principle here is one of flexibility: that your model of behavior should allow for context dependence, not that it need be entirely context driven. As an analogy, consider a ground principle that your statistical model shouldn’t assume normal distributions or equal variance.
- nialse 5y agoA main pilar of behavioral psychology is that the previously learnt behavior is activated in a certain context, the antecedent. The presence (or absence) of consequences following the behavior affects the probability of such a behavior occurring again a smiliar context. This operant conditioning has been shown extensively in behavioristic research by Skinner and beyond. Genes can be thought of as learnt behavior in an organism accumulating over time. This behavior is also activated in certain contexts. Thus the sentence does not necessarily separate environmental influence from genetic influence although it is easy to interpret it as such.
- kriro 5y agoThank you, that is a good explanation. Genes as learnt behavior also makes sense the way you described it.
- dmingod666 5y agoShy and Outgoing is the Extraversion trait. 5 are OCEAN - Openess to experience, Concientiousness (attention to detail), Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
- ascar 5y agoInterestingly enough this exact phrase resonated with my personal experience deeply. I always found these personality categorization quite lacking. The most obvious one was introversion/extroversion. I'm a pretty introverted person in larger groups of unfamiliar people, but very extroverted in small intimate groups. Similar, but less obvious, situations and contrasts exist for basically all ostensibly opposite personality traits. The extro/introverted one also seems quite common (think people saying "I'm reserved at first but open up..."). So that context matters seems very intuitive to me.