THE ESSENTIAL YOU

摘要

Your identity is comprised of a variety of physical and mental traits - things like personality, intelligence, experience, skills, habits, sexuality and attractiveness. But what really makes you "you'? If asked to identify the essence of individuality, many psychologists point to personality, your unique combination of the five character traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. However, research by Nina Strohminger at Yale University challenges this. "What our studies show is that morality is essential to how others see you, and how they construct your identity," she says.