Implicit+Theory+of+Personalitity

= __**Implicit Theory of Personality**__ =

 ** Definition :** The theory focus’ on factors that determine and explain different individual personalities as they are and the factors that have brought about the given personality.

**Summary:** The theory explains that personality tends not to change when one would expect change. The structure of personality is formulated in a way that is said to maintain itself against all new experiences that could potentially alter it. Therefore, the theory concentrates on the factors that explain why an individual is as he or she is, how they became so, and how these factors maintain within a person regardless of circumstances, fortunes, and opportunities. [|Solomon Asch] first discovered that the presence of one trait often implies the existence of other additional traits. An example of this is when individuals believe that a happy person is also friendly or that quiet people are also timid. Researchers have found an impossibility of personality change. This impossibility is the repression paradigm which explains that an individual’s early family relations can play a role on ones personalities and values. This means that home atmosphere determines one's personality. Although, they have also found two observations that could be involved in personality change. The first observation is  that a major personality change involves some sort of intense affective or feeling process occurring in the individual. And the second observation states that change occurs nearly always in the context of an ongoing personal relationship.

[|__http://www.focusing.org/personality_change.html#Personality%20Theory%20and%20Personality%20Change__]

** Example in pop culture: ** This theory of personality applies in the movie Mean Girls. The character of Cady moves from Africa after being home schooled and is portrayed as innocent and caring to others. People viewed her as the “new girl” who was good at math and not very social. Although, when she began to hang with the popular crowd in school her behaviors began to change and the way people perceived her changed as well. This then conflicts with the theory because she is a representation that a personality can change based on who you are surrounded by and where you live. Therefore, this can relate to one of the observations which explains that a change in personality occurs based on a personal relationship with others. When hanging with this new group of girls she began to be mean to people and only cared about herself and how others thought of her. In addition she changed her behavior at home and her overall appearance.

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**Connection to NHS:**

This theory can be related to NHS culture because people often create friendships with others based on someone’s personality. We will make general expectations about a person after we know something about their central traits. Therefore, we tend to also make assumptions about that person based on their behaviors. Friend groups tend to stay the same throughout high school because you become so adapt to their personalities and how they behave. Since a person’s specific personality structure supposedly maintains itself throughout their life then it will only result in a friendship to grow stronger. If one's personality begins to change, which is a rare occurrence, this can often result in problems among a friend group. This is because someone you thought you knew starts to act and behave unlike themselves which can become difficult to adapt to.

Gendlin, Eugene T. "A Theory of Personality Change." //A Theory of PersonalityChange//. Ed. Philip Worchel. John Wiley & Sons, 1964. Web. 19 Mar. 2012..
 * Bibliography: **

Kassin, S. "Implicit personality theory." //Ask//. Wikipedia, 7 Nov. 2011. Web. 27Mar. 2012. .