Extraversion and neuroticism
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- Extraversion and neuroticism
- neuroticism
- related to the workings of the autonomic nervous system
- unstable mood swings
- high "N" may lead to move swings and anxious behaviour
- low "N" leads to calm behaviour
- Reseach
- McGurk and McDougall found significant differences in E,P,N scores suggesting a link between behaviour and personality
- difficult to generalise but gives socially acceptable answers
- McGurk and McDougall found significant differences in E,P,N scores suggesting a link between behaviour and personality
- Extraversion
- high "E" can lead to being a criminal with lack of self control
- needs to be implusive to get extra excitement
- Reaserch
- Eysenck did not look at repeat re offending and links between introversion and extroversion
- Farrington say it is not clear why the relationship between E + offending is inconsistent
- Psychoticism
- criminal characteristic-hostile uncaring attitude. violent. lack of empathy. hostile uncaring attitude.
- Research
- high scores on E+P+N only apply to violent crimes
- results are obtained from twin studies which are un reliable
- General evaluation
- research was self report meaning it could be biased
- research doesn't include people who have committed a crime but not being caught
- passingham noted that eysneck didn't match criminal groups on social background, so methodologically flawed
- neuroticism
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