The Big Five Personality Traits

About this video lesson:
The theory of the Big Five Personality Traits, claims that we can describe ourselves with five main characteristics: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
Each of us varies in how much of each trait is shown in our personality.
In order to understand what each trait really means, let’s look at these five characters who stranded on an island in the middle of the ocean.


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[MrAutore]

People lost at sea: Help us!
Psychologists: we could help you, but we will ignore your pleas for help in the name of science

[ShannMcG]

I feel like it would be 100% reasonable to freak out after being stranded on a deserted island 😂😂😂

[tiaan]

"Gives her a drink of his coconut" lol

[anushkawj]

Pirate 1: Opposite of Neuroticism
Pirate 2: Opposite of Agreeableness
Pirate 3: Opposite of Extraversion
Pirate 4: Opposite of Conscientiousness
Pirate 5: Opposite of Openness

[theJZA]

Did a good job explaining each one but need to make clear we all are on the spectrum of each of those 5. We're not one more than the other. We're a sum of the parts. Not identifiable by just one or two of those traits in the big 5

[ilikepepsi]

Someone: can you do this for me?
Agreeable guy: aah shit here we go again

[johndoh]

This video completely misses the point of the Big Five Personality Traits. I think condensing these traits down into one singular caricature [for each extreme] is misguided and a poor representation of what the BFPT actually tries to measure. It's more of a spectrum where people can be more or less open, conscientious, extroverted, agreeable, or neurotic. I don't know how you would condense it into a five minute video and a metaphore, but it's definitely not this way.

[JammesNova]

The drawings are amazing! Big up to whoever came up and executed the artwork!

[ET-xcbn]

Oh no. I just realised I’m the terrible mix of conscientious, agreeable and neurotic. I’d probably have a breakdown. Then get everyone off their butts and moving so we can live. Then someone else would probably take credit and I’d just be too shy and passive to take claim and then just do what everyone wants me to do the rest of the time. Yay for me 😑

[berenic]

This is really good. I remember learning this in the personality class. I do believe we possess a bit of all five traits depending on the situation we are in

[Grayard]

hmmm this theory is not completed, lacks some important details:
for more info watch Lord of the Flies

[TheRABIDdude]

4:09 The crushing moment when you realise you're pirate 4. FML.

[redtajl]

Tag yourself I'm nora having an absolute breakdown

[kushajagarwal]

I'm no neurotic, but if I'm stranded on an island I'm gonna cry my guts out 😂😂

[McDnyss]

Big Five is not the one personality a person has but all 5 on different %tages. So instead of being 100% neurotic or 100% openness, it does not mean that other traits they have are 0%. Instead all traits are from 0-100% and you are not fixed on being only 1 personality as video portrays, but rather all 5 of them on a different scale.

[rugdg]

Situational circumstances are a big flaw here. Everyone is conscientious and open until the Cockroach starts Flying.

[boondockdan]

A decent introduction. However, it is too simplistic to describe "traits" as if they are types. The difference between the Big 5 traits and Myers-Briggs style types is that five traits are an interacting complex of 5 spectra which can be further subdivided into 10 aspects. Myers-Briggs types, on the other hand, are more of a fixed set of characteristics... which erroneously leads to a simplistic view independent of the situation. The unique situation causes the complex interactions of traits in which the personality will emerge. To think in types rather than traits is vulnerable to false dichotomies and/or the binary bias.

[vsfs.compendium]

This was an awesome way to explain the five personality traits. Prior to this, I watched videos that would explain it in a long-winded and yada-yada way. Using a narrative-style to explain the five personality traits is so much easier to digest.

[TimBorny]

I truly enjoy most of your videos, however, this is an inept description of the big five. Classifying individuals as carrying a single trait from the big five rather than lying somewhere on the spectrum for each of the traits is not just misleading, it's entirely inaccurate!

[evedotcom]

“holding up her beautifully arranged SOS sign” lmao me