A: Personality psychologists like myself study the unique patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that make us who we are. We try to understand why people act differently when put in the same situations, for example, or how we can capture these differences in a systematic way that allows for comparisons across time and space.
There are different approaches to studying personality, but the perhaps most common one is to think of personality as relatively broad dispositions — determined partly by your genetics and partly by socio cultural forces — that shape your tendencies to think, feel and behave in a certain way (without being deterministic).
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