Giving Entire Cultures a Personality Test

Summary

Most people think that they can discern differences in personality, to recognize that man is an introvert or extrovert. Also, people tend to adapt to certain personality traits in different groups. Even tend to adapt to different cultural stereotypes that reflect the personality differences.

Scientists are interested in whether these stereotypes are based. There are a large group of scientists from around the world who manage a personality test results. This test has been adapted to different cultures. Scientists tested people from 50 different cultures.

These tests were intended as a tool to understand the national character. It was found that the cultures are able to meet the national character. However, the national character of the profiles did not match the cultural profiles of individual people.

In conclusion, the researchers concluded that regardless of the national character is that he did not aggregate culture of human personality traits. In other words, the national character is how people see themselves through culture, rather than what they really are.