The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth

Re:The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth by bitexploder on Thursday September 27, 2018 @07:49AM (#18083581)

I guess what I am proposing is not really testable. If behavior is the evidence of personality, maybe personality is always just a back-filled hand wavy explanation to describe the behavioral trends. I guess the reason I think that: there is evidence of that subatomic particle (personality) but it is very elusive.

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Re:The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth by rusk on Thursday September 27, 2018 @07:56AM (#18083616)

> personality is always just a back-filled hand wavy explanation

This is what Watson would have said (in a roundabout way) [0]. Perhaps it's not related but he's not considered to have been a very nice guy. [1] [2]

Skinner was a lot more fun.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#Behaviorism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#"Little_Albert"...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#Advertising

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Re:The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth by bitexploder on Thursday September 27, 2018 @08:06AM (#18083676)

Thanks for sharing — I am not very well read on psychology so I probably operate in ignorance a lot. Never enough time to read and learn everything I wish I could.

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Re:The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth by rusk on Thursday September 27, 2018 @08:22AM (#18083764)

The nice thing about psychology, is understanding a little bit about how the mind works, means you can optimise for increasing your capacity to learn all sorts of other things!

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