Overview
Format:
Word doc or doc file
12-point Font, Times New Roman, Double-spaced Not more than 500 words, not fewer than 300 words.
Document Title:
YourLastName_YourFirstName.docx (e.g.
Damian_Rodica.docx)
Content:
Choose a celebrity (whomever you want) and analyze their personality in terms of the Big Five personality traits. All you should do is take each of the five traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness) and argue whether the celebrity of your choice is higher or lower than average in each trait and give examples for why you think that. The examples must match behavioral instances of each trait as presented in lectures and textbook. Please make sure that you find a celebrity for whom you have enough public information to evaluate all five traits.
Additional Resources:
In addition to your book and slides on Big Five definitions, you may also find the paper by Soto (2018) useful for definition summaries.
Grading:
1-100 points total.
1) 0-15 points for each of the five trait descriptions and reasonings (75 pts total), as follows:
- 0 = a particular trait was not mentioned at all
- 5 = inaccurate behavioral trait indicators, lacks reasoning for mapping trait onto the celebrity
- 10 = moderately accurate behavioral trait indicators, moderate reasoning mapping them onto the celebrity
- 15 = accurate behavioral trait indicators, good reasoning mapping them onto the celebrity, and evidence-based critical thinking
2) 0-25 points for following instructions and formatting
- Word doc or doc file
- 12-point Font, Times New Roman, Double-spaced
- Not more than 500 words, not fewer than 300 words.
- Name top right, celebrity's name as title, list occupation, section for each of the five traits
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Example Paper:
Write Your Name at the Top Right.
Write the celebrity's name as the title, write their occupation and provide an official website if available, and then provide a section for each of the five traits (I only provided an example for Openness, but you would need a separate paragraph with its own heading for each of the 5 traits).
Rodica Damian
Trevor Noah
Occupation
Comedian, host of The Daily Show, https://www.trevornoah.com/
Openness
Trevor Noah seems higher in openness to experience than average because he is a comedian, which is a profession that requires creativity, he is highly interested in new ideas, he shares values through his comedy that show openness and acceptance of people who are different from him, and he lives in a foreign country (he is originally from South Africa).
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Neuroticism