Leadership Traits

Personality differences

• Where can we observe these differences?
• Type A people - speed, impatience, and aggressive tendencies
• Type B people - less impatient and more co-operative

Personality
Psychological qualities that contribute to an individual’s enduring and distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving

The term "personality" comes from the word "persona". Persona stems from the public masks that were used to display and express different personalities

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The Nativism-Empiricism Controversy

• Also called the nature-nurture debate
• Nativism claims that an important attribute, such as intelligence, is largely genetically determined
• Empiricism claims that people’s major attributes are largely created by experience

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