Behind the personality
Mapping the Psychology of Richie
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
The challenge
Capturing Richie's Essence
People are complex. This has led psychologists to develop countless frameworks that serve as lenses through which to understand and organize the complexity of people.
For the RichieBot project, we wanted to identify the minimal set of frameworks that would best capture the most important psychological characteristics of Richie. We settled on three prominent psychological frameworks to help guide the development and evaluation of RichieBot.
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How did Richie tend to think, feel, and behave?
BehaviorBig Five personality traits
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How did Richie see the world?
WorldviewPrimal world beliefs
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What kinds of things did Richie care about?
ValuesSchwartz values
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Compare your profile with Richie
Take the same Big Five, primal world beliefs, or Schwartz values survey and see your result alongside Richie's profile.
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Big Five personality traits
The Big Five organizes recurring patterns in how Richie may have approached people, ideas, emotions, and everyday life.
What it captures
Openness captures curiosity and imagination; conscientiousness captures order and follow-through; extraversion captures energy and sociability; agreeableness captures warmth and cooperation; and neuroticism captures emotional sensitivity.
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Primal world beliefs
Primal world beliefs describe the background assumptions that shape attention, interpretation, and expectations.
What it captures
Whether Richie sees the world as safe or dangerous, enticing or dull, and alive or mechanistic—the three higher-order beliefs that give his worldview its texture.
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Schwartz values
Schwartz values organize what Richie may have cared about and the principles that could guide a response or decision.
What it captures
The Schwartz framework captures ten value dimensions: self-direction, stimulation, hedonism, achievement, power, security, conformity, tradition, benevolence, and universalism.
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References
- John, O. P., & Srivastava, S. (1999). The Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research.
- Clifton, J. D. W., et al. (2019). Primal world beliefs. Psychological Assessment, 31(1), 82–99.
- Schwartz, S. H. (2012). An overview of the Schwartz theory of basic values. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(1).