The Five Core Dimensions of Personality 

The "what type of sandwich are you" test is clearly the only correct way to categorize personalities in humans.

i remember taking the Meyers Briggs test in psych 101 and then the teacher was like ‘oh btw this is total bs’ and then gave us the big five one LOL

Glad you took a stab at Myers-Briggs. People seem to put way too much stock in it on social media. I mean, I suppose it's slightly more valuable than astrology but when you have the big 5 to consider, it's kind of meh.

Debunking auditory vs visual vs tactile learners is an interesting one

Professor Dave seems to be able to explain almost everything.

Love to see you branching out. Always been interested in this topic as well! Thanks for all you do!

As an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist, I enjoyed seeing this one. I've read a fair amount of academic literature pertaining to the Big 5 and have a good deal of experience leveraging it for various purposes in organizations. I do not disagree with anything Dave presented here - it is a good high-level overview. I definitely appreciated the criticism of the Myers Briggs - this "test" is flawed for all the reasons Dave mentioned, plus some. I do want to point out a couple additional points about the Big 5 that may be beneficial for others to know: 1) The Big 5 is a model of "normal" personality. It does not deal with personality disorders. Big 5 personality measures are not clinical diagnostic tools. 2) Personality tests are predictive of behavior, but they are not measures of one's abilities. For example, someone fairly high on introversion can still manage to deliver a great public speech, but it will take a lot out of them and make them feel exhausted doing so. They likely would not seek out such opportunities and would burnout quickly if they had to do it all the time, whereas the extrovert would feel energized from doing it. Doesn't mean that the former couldn't do it as well as the latter if they set their mind to it. A Big 5 personality test does say a lot about you and will predict your behavior in broad strokes, but you need not feel that it is an ultimate constraint upon how you must be or what you are capable of.

As a long time viewer, I find it interesting how Proff Dave’s personality is much more “gentle” in his standard educational videos than his debunk videos, which contain a distinct hint of “what have you been smoking???!!!”

professor Dave is exploring every single field in the world! it seems as if it was yesterday when I started watching his organic chemistry content. The good old days.

I took Myers-Briggs a few times. If I recall correctly, 3 of the 4 letters changed at least some of the times.

I think it's common for people to view extraversion and emotional stability as 'better' than the inverse. However know that the big five test only measure your personality traits to place you in relation to the normal distribution. Therefor I wonder how personality traits that are commonly viewed as 'bad' like high scores in neuriticism and impulsivity are actually beneficial to some lifestyles or profession?

So your saying that the survey I did that said I was a Ron Weasley Hoagie Sandwich was wrong? 😢😭

An interesting take on the MBTI types and Big 5! Thanks for sharing to inspire my MBTI channel. Randomly discovered your channel through the RU-vid algorithm! 🤟🤟🤟

What personality are you, Dave? (both in the gradient model you presented and the flawed Myers-Briggs)

Nice work Dave

Thanks for this, helped me understand a few problems I have. It's hard to find stuff on this topic which isn't mindless make yourself feel better nonsense.

Hey, Dave! Thanks for all the content which I love. Even things I know nothing about or even interested in. But, when I see you've uploaded about it, I always take the time to watch because I know that I will actually have learned something in doing so. Or, even become interested in hearing more.. So, great stuff. But, I have a serious question; what is that outro music? I love it. Lol.. Did you make it?

Yours is the first channel I've seen with a different audio track available in the video settings

Hi Dave. Lady Moon here. I commented on this video the other day to say I did not think it was accurate. I had a migraine at the time, and now that I'm better I've watched it again and I must apologize (I'm sure you don't really give a damn about one person's opinion but there it is) It is clear I was well-wide of the mark and the video does not say what I thought it was saying. I removed the comment as soon as I realized I'd made a dunce of myself and it is only fitting to now replace it with one which says: 'Well done. Insightful video, Professor'.

I love the video but I have a question: With almost all five of the categories, I knew on what side of the spectrum I was, but than there are one ore two things that completely contradict what I feel like on the same side of the spectrum. Does this mean that I'm in the middle of the spectrum?

Awesome video!

Dave is a confirmed personality guy 😁

Yeah, I’ve taken modified Myers-Briggs tests with a few employers. One was a bit more nuanced than the "standard binary" because it quantified where you were, allegedly, on the scale, eg I repeatedly tested near 55%/45% on introversion/extraversion, my husband tested nearer 75%/25%. (It was a computer program and we got a copy, took it several times each and gave it to friends and family out of curiosity.) The results weren’t completely off-base, but they still missed some subtleties…hubby *loves* socializing while too much of it exhausts me. Not what you’d expect from the test results. 🤨

This doesn’t really seem like a good way to think about personality. It may appease some desired to classify the world. But it does so by over simplifying what personality so much those classifications don’t hold real predictive power.

learned about this in class 2 weeks ago lol

I like these new animations and visuals :)

More people need to see this video Gonna start sharing it with friends

Loving this. My 1st encounter with OCEAN was Dr. Grande

Professor Dave, what is your opinion about Spiral Dynamics?

Very good video. However, another variable that should be considered is how your personality will change depending on who your associating with at that time.

My favorite part of every video is your intro. The informative portions of your videos are great too ;-)

Great video as always. Agree on the point with Myers Briggs. Do you have a view on DISC?

So sir Dave what is your personality according to the big five

Thank you so much

Thank you, I keep having to tell all my friends to stop believing Meyer Briggs is a real thing.

dame this is a really good content i will be watching this again

Waiting for this

You're great on explaining and debunking as usual, Professor! However, you also need to give the Functions stack theory a hit, because a lot of mbti people refer to it upon getting criticized. Same as the Learning styles, we all use all of these so-called 8 functions in life but only the *top* ones determine our type. See the problem here? It lies in the word in bold. How do we gonna rate which one is higher than the other to stack them up? Is there any metric for this? The answer is no, and in most cases it all comes down to personal relatability which is subjective by its nature and obviously untestable (hence there's no point in making tests based on this). Same as many other fake sciences, this theory struggle with quantities (in this case, the degree by which an individual relates to each function). The functions themselves are utterly idealistic and most psychological researches denied their existence. Same as the 16 types, the stacks results also change the next time one takes the test. (Let's ignore the fact that there are 8! stacks but only 16 types so huge amount of ad-hoc is needed to bridge between them) What about its applicability? The type or stack misses a lot of things. One's skills, motivations, and even your choice of apparel matter more in everyday life. People don't ask what function they uses the most to know about others. They just *observe*. But apart from wasting our time, here's the most detri-mental aspect. Suppose one individual tested and found out his stack or type, that relates to the characters and people he idolized. That will likely establish the idea or belief of his own perfect type, so he will refuse to change what he is. If his behaviors are in fact, considered as negative by people around him, then he has become delusional.

Have there been studies about the emotional/physical state of the mother during pregnancy & the temperament of the child at birth / during infancy? For example, a mother who drank vs a mother was under extreme stress due to be off anxiety medication or being pregnant during COVID vs a mother in a stable loving relationship with a partner with a strong social support network include healthy stable bonds with family of origin vs a mother who was homeless vs a teenage mother vs etc? I guess the main thing I'm wondering here is does things like the stress level during pregnancy influence temperament? Because a fetus is exposed to everything in the blood of the mother, it has an environment which could case changes. Things like stress release stress hormones, and we know things like drinking or doing drugs while pregnant produces changes, so I don't see why chemical compounds produced by the mother's own body wouldn't be relevant. For example, I have identical twin brothers. Same DNA, born the same day from the same person. But one is taller than the other, and the shorter one has severe autism. He looked nothing like a normal baby from the moment he was born. He was under nurished (starved) and almost died in utero. Even his heart didn't form correctly (one of the valves was messed up & he needed surgery when he was very small), while his identical twin has a totally normal heart, is taller, always looked like a healthy happy normal baby, and isn't autistic.

Professor dave, could you explain the alpha test's subjects please

I really liked this! I think I took the Myers - Briggs but I don't remember my letters. : - )

Yay love your content

This is so complex, all that you described I share at least 1 trait

Hey Dave! Wanted to ask if you plan on making a differential equations playlist. Prof. Leonard is an absolute godsend for calc. But his diffEQ stuff diverged from what I needed to learn. I was lucky to have a great prof, but when it came to stuff like Laplace transformations to tackle more complicated equations, the youtube tutorials became much more scarce. From what I’ve seen there is yet to be a complete (semester 1) differential equations playlist on RU-vid.

What is your mbti type and what are your big five traits?

Great video, as always. I took Myers-Briggs several times a few decades ago (ENTJ here), but more recently have started using DiSC instead, which seems to be built on the same concepts as OCEAN, but more tailored to assessing "at office" personality. DiSC is (D)ominance, (I)nfluence, (S)teadiness, and (C)onscientiousness. The one thing I did like about Myers-Briggs is that it introduced the idea of one's "back-up" personality. That is, if you typically exhibit say, an ENTJ style, what happens when you are put under duress or stress? Not sure if OCEAN addresses this concept or not, but it seems clear that people have a fall-back position when really taxed or feeling stressed or threatened. Appreciate the hard work by you and your team, Professor Dave.

Knowing you're low in agreeableness and have tried to change is a different kind of pain

Are there publicly available tests to determine where one falls on the various spectrums of the big five personality traits? Or are online personality tests in general just bunk? If the former is true, what’s a reliable source for such a test?

We need to see a video where you do a Collab with Dr. Todd grande!

I took that Myers Briggs thing for a job and I had a job specialist there to help me it was funny 😁 I couldn't understand why they would ask two opposing questions my job specialist got mad at the test I just kinda rolled with it but my job specialist was mad 😠 and thought the test was crazy 🤪 I couldn't understand why every question would ask opposite then ask how you felt about it makes more sense now

I liked your new hair style ❣️

So you mean to tell me that I'm not Luna Lovegood or a black forest ham with provolone cheese? 🤯

how can quantumcomputers help me to understand my personality? can i recode my personality with these timecrystals?

When you said twins can have same personality I immediately thought about the separated Buffer brothers who were separated , didn’t know of one another and ended up having the same job and finding out that way(the famous ring announcers for boxing/ufc respectively) ! Not twins but brothers and a crazy story

Your overview of mbti seems to be based off of popular websites and not actually the system itself, for instance you said that the traits are "binary" however this is only true of popular websites and not the actual system, the actual system uses "cognitive functions" which can further be determined and do not "change when you take the test a secod time" i agree that the popular websites are completely inaccurate however this is not due to mbti's actual system but the websites understanding of how it works. I think you should revisit the mbti, after thoroughly looking through cognitive functions, looping, shadow, and other things within the system that is far more informative than the shallow websites you seem to be referencing

The Jordan Peterson test is by far the best

hey dave, just wondering, what's with the switch away from the green screen videos? is it just easier to have explanations on screen and do voice over separately? just curious as i haven't seen those in a while

Hey I just wanna ask, whats your MBTI type/

I'm a Ginny Weasley, and a Cheese and Jam sandwich 🥪

Thnx 😎

Oh boy. Wonder what Ole Jesse Lee Peterson would have to say about this witchcraft! "You hate your momma!" Lollll

"42-57% is decided by genes". So its basically a coin flip, meaning no relationship at all, just randomness. Am I missing something, because these are binary variables (introvert or extrovert), that are the same about half the time. If anybody can show a personality test that passes a Gage R&R please share link. I'd be fascinated how they get self-assessments of babies, or how to judge their preference for schedules. It's pretty well known in child development that infants aren't really aware of others till at least 3-4 years old when they can co-play.

Love a lot of things prof. Dave does, but what in the world does Introversion/Extroversion have to do with the likelihood of looking somebody in the eyes? I'd rate myself very deeply into the introvert side of the scope, but could easily win staredown battles with most people. For me that statement seems to confuse shyness/low self esteem with introversion which merely describes loosing energy when engaging with people.

I’ve just decided I am personality fluid :P

i completely agree with your video!! i really enjoyed watching it aswell! but i personally think those mbti test are relative, why would it matter if it changes the second time you take the test? and with mbti you don’t actually have to take a test, you can just decide yourself if you’re more intro or extroverted. I do think it’s wrong using it in professional life tho (sorry for bad english)

Hey dave, I have a question. I was having a debate with someone on the topic of transness, and they said that people are conflating identity with personality. This has me very confused about the whole topic and I was wondering the difference between personality and identity. I understand that this may or may not be a difficult question. I feel somewhat uneducated on the subject of both identity and personality.

Personality traits is a fluid spectrum that adjusts/changes over time

These concepts don't entirely work for neurodivergences, but is a good groundwork and probably a good way to learn about neurotypicals

Have you heard of HEXACO, Dave? It's basically OCEAN but with the dark triad included as H (honesty) as well.

I think I have low neuroticism yet my experiences have tended toward the high end of neuroticism, due to my life conditions. I'm not irritable but I have been wronged and mistreated all throughout my childhood by my own parents. And since I have autism, I have been mistreated by others simply because they didn't understand me. I'm not anxious by nature, but I have experienced lots of anxiety due to actual threats which I have faced to an unhealthy and unsafe extent. And I feel like I have a stable mood by nature, but most other people do things which seem wrong to my instincts and so it triggers me to respond, and I get even more bothered when they disagree that they did anything wrong. I feel like I am surrounded by a bunch of crazy idiots and I'm the only sane one. I don't know if I would have felt much sadness or depression had I had a healthy upbringing; I always imagined that I would not, but that's not particularly meaningful coming from the eyes of a child. The reality is that I have experienced so much sadness and depression for so long that I can't place where it began and have been largely unable to self-diagnose these symptoms for most of my life. I am 38 years old now, and I didn't really start to unravel my pain and compare it to others until I was around 30 years of age.

I love the fact that this comes out right when Amber Heard’s diagnosis get revealed to the world lol

I would trust more to the sandwich test, than Harry Potter test.

I did five personality test and they all said I was a c$nt. Can anyone explain what that means.

Brain disorders I think is a factor. By disorders I mean autism spectrum or narcissistic spectrum. I believe that narcissism is a problem with the front brain and autism the back brain, different degrees of damage to no damage.

When is a video on differential equations going to come out?

Nice

i didnt expect to see mbti in this series. -im an INTJ btw

I think we all know what kind of sandwich the author of the sandwich test is: bologna.

Learning my MBTI was a big step for me. It helped open me to learning more about my psyche. Just like you said. I’m happily an ENFJ.

0:53 1st and 2nd century CE? What's CE? I've never heard of it 🤨👀.

How does conscientiousness predict marital fidelity???

May I suggest personality is far more complex and chaotic than quantifiable classification. The big five may work, however it ain't necessarily so in all circumstances.

Do yoy think you can make a video on the pseudosciences of mbti and function theory? With many people who "scientifically analyze" the personality theory, they dont talk anything about the actual cognitive functions and all they really do is prove that a personality test is inaccurate, not the system itself.

"Meyers Briggs is astrology for people with college degrees" - adam ruins everything (i think?)

Personality is the best predictor next to i.q...this is accurate ppl..even if it doesn't fit you're narrative..

It exhausts me every time people keep bothering me to tell them my Myers-Briggs personality test results, and even more exhausting explaining them why I think it is so annoying to take a test to flawed you are likely to get different results in different places as they present different questions, but with the same 0 or 1 results and nothing in the middle.

I’ve always thought personality traits like this are super accurate except like horoscopes, you can apply any one of these to you depending on what you’re thinking about when answering the questions. I have different levels of these traits and different categories of my life. I might be organized with things I care about, and disorganized with community things that I lose motivation keeping up with when others don’t. I may be cynical in one situation and optimistic in another one. I think there is another level of analysis that can apply these traits specific areas of your life for a better picture

nice hair cut bro

No the best test is which friend from Friends are you I hope I'm Phoebe but I'll settle for Gunther

Sorry man, but as someone who works in this field, all personality tests are pseudoscience. Without exception. The "better" ones still suffer from terrible flaws in their basic assumptions and are often based on science that's decades out of date. Of course, those involved in psychometrics etc. desperately try to claim otherwise, but personalities are almost impossible to reduce to universal categories kicb the same way emotions are. And no, there's no such thing as universal emotions either, before you even think of doing a video on that.

There are STILL some religious hacks who believe in the 4 humors of personality. Some hack used those old terms and tried to turn it into a Meyers-Briggs personality chart.

Cheers 🥂 Mr. Dave... What a piece if work 🤠

OCEAN > BM? Noted. Good vid.

Carl Jung himself (original creator of Myers Briggs before they stole it) said that people were way more complicated and that his eight chosen archetypes were simply a basis for begining to understand a person as a whole. While I do think that my type (INTP) is very accurate to how I am, I would never use it to base important life decisions on nor would I say that it is scientific. People who truly believe that it is absolutely and 100% accurate are misinformed and should take it with a grain of salt.

*DAVE* Will you PLEASE do a video debunking the Kayne West prophecy from the David Bowie album “Ziggy Stardust”? I need to see that narcissistic asswipe (the one who’s met with Trump, Ran and voted for himself in the 2020 election), Kanye West go down! Please? For some upcoming summer break extra credit? I’ve been approached by several individuals over the years who are big Kanye fans and rudely use this as reason as to why he is so good and why myself and others should like his music. It’s a real issue!

Porque esta en español :0?

While most of this video is good and compares to the standard dave has for the other topics, it falls yet short, so here are my nitpicks: - Personality has nothing to do with genetics. Rather, character is often used to explain 'inherent' behaviour. Personality therefore, is changeable and may completely flip over a lifetime. That genetics have a correlation to personality, doesn't warrant the explanation given by Dave. - The big 5 is not the be-all end-all standard for personality in Psychology. We have recently seen the introductions of both HEXACO and the Dark Traits as metrics of high interest with good research behind them. While the Big 5 is a fine scientific model, it might be replaced as de facto king soon. That said, when you really get into the field of personality, it starts to get more complex. And ultimately, papers will use the metric that fits and sometimes that won't be the big 5. Especially in clinical psychology, it is a rather uninteresting model. What is correct (and that goes for all scientific personality models, so no the MBTI), is that people can get interesting insights from the Big 5. That's all.

Dave

That wasn't helpful at all. I'm extremely well balanced, right down the middle on everything. I lean neither towards or away from anything.

anyone want to be one of those rare/extreme personality types but barely ever get to fall into that category