Traits, the structure of individual personality

Here are some personalities.

The theoretical person

The theoretical person is the intellectual person who values knowledge, seeking eternal truths rather than the deeper meaning in things. He or she tends to generalize, not noticing the particular in the general, which makes him or her wise, rather than clever, where the particular is concerned. He or she values objectivity, which makes true or false the real criteria for truth.

The economic person

The economic person is driven by a utility motive which is seldom satisfied because he or she is constantly in a state of striving to produce something visible. He or she sees work and income as synonymous. Both involve utility and sustained yields of products, which are the factors by which the economic person renews himself or herself psychologically.

The economic person is more in contact with reality than the theoretical person, in that knowledge is only valued if it has a practical purpose.
The economic person basic motive is to maintain himself or herself, which means that his or her ego is the most important aspect of life.

The social person

The social person is the selfless person who lives through other people. He or she only becomes a person in own right by giving and receiving love, and when the need to receive love becomes a need to give love, his or he genuine social nature evolves. A social person is not interested in theoretical or objective knowledge of people, but is focused on sympathy, empathy and acceptance of positive and the negative. If involved in economic activity , the social person has no concern with acquisitiveness, but only with service to others.


The power person

The power person finds meaning in life by experiencing himself or herself as power. His or her strongest motive is to confirm this life power by being superior to other people. The power orientation is an inner compulsion that the individual has to express. IT can be expressed by using theoretical knowledge. Economic utility, aesthetic beauty or religious piety as personal characteristics to rise above other people.

The religious person

all aspect of The religious persons life have a spiritual foundation. He or she sees nothing as existing in itself, because everything is part of the spiritual, of which god is the objective correlate. Belief is seen as the highest form of knowledge.
The religious value orientation is closely related tot the social orientation, because it involves love, but for god nto a person.

The aesthetics person

The aesthetics person gives form to his or her inner being by aesthetic experience. He or she can transform something from any sphere of life, be it intellectual. Spiritual, physical or emotional, to an experience of beauty.


Traits, The structure of personality.

Sociability, risk taking, impulsiveness, expressiveness, lack of reflection, lack of responsibility, low self esteem, unhappiness, anxiety, obsessiveness, lack of autonomy, hypochondria, guilt, aggressiveness, assertiveness, achievement orientation, manipulation, sensation seeking, dogmatism, masculinity, trusting, group orientated, imaginative, etc These are some traits that form a structure for a personality to manifest. Different environmental influences can cause changes in these traits, but these changes depends on the strength of the current personality and some traits already in the structure of the individual personality. This can have a variety of effects depending on the diversity and strength of traits. Some of these influencer's are : Friends, Family, Lovers, Intellectuals, The Self, Near death experience, etc A dominant trait will manifests itself with the help of influencer's. When for example a new trait like anxiety is introduced into the structure it can spiral out of control when a low self esteem or similar trait is already present in the structure. But when a dominant trait like risk taking is present in a structure, anxiety would have less of a dramatic impact on the structure and the personality. Why? Because Traits can be put into categories, Low self esteem and anxiety are emotion/neuroticism based traits while risk taking is extrovert/introvert based traits.

If we for example look at Knowledge structures from experience. Structural coupling is influenced by all types of perception form basic visual pattern to complex behavioral sequences which can become automatized with use. Decisions that initially require considerable conscious thought can, in fact, become effortless and occur with little or no awareness. For example a person who repeatedly “learn” through experience or through cultural teaching that a particular type of person e.g Atheist is a “threat' it can automatically perceive almost any action by a member of that group as dangerous and remain unaware of the multiple inference he or she made in coming to that perception. This dynamic can easily lead to a shot first ask questions later mentality. Indeed this is a form of automatized hatred, suspicion and preemptive aggression. Have you ever wondered why theists almost always attack the moral fiber of an atheist? These responses clearly indicate some dominant traits in the structure of a personality, Dogmatism and manipulation. These traits can be found in the tough-minded/psycotism category which makes it easy to identify the key influencer's of these type of traits, family and culture!

If you look at double personalities then logically 2 dominant traits from different categories can not be present in the same structure. So how can we go about explaining people who claim multiple personalities. Is it a scapegoat for the insanity plea?, is modern TV perhaps influencing this perceived state of altered consciousness? One psychiatric observer (Schafer, 1984) estimates a rapidly increasing incidence of people experiencing multiple personalities. This also reminds me of statistical increase in UFO sightings after the first alien movies of the 1920's How much of a influence does social happenings have on our perception of the world? Our perception of the world shapes our traits thus our personality. Religion and double personalities can easily be ego states in which the individual finds creative ways of expressively elaborating oneself in a psychotherapeutic setting. In a world where critical thinking can benefit the population, one would first need to decrease the impact of certain dominant traits in order to remove the magical, mystical, or pathological emphases which are a confounding source of these formations.

This for me is the primary reason why a debate between atheists and theists are so fruitless and pointless. It is impossible to change someones personality, because a theist would not see an atheist as a trusted source who can influence his/her dominant traits.