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The wonderful world of words: Reflections on various applications of the lexical approach to psychology

This lecture will provide various perspectives on the psycholexical approach to different phenomena in psychology, not just personality. The given perspectives will be both historical and content-driven. The psycholexical approach is mostly viewed as the fuel that propelled the Big-Five model of personality traits, however, the approach was found useful in several other areas in psychology. Among the most prominent were: social and reputational aspects of personality, values, virtues, and morality. The lecture will briefly sketch the historical development of the Big-Five model, the degree of universality through emic and etic studies, and challenges to the model through structural alternatives. The degree of Big-Five replication will be given through findings grouped per language family. A possibility of the consensual trait model will also be presented. The lecture will also draw on potential applications of the psycholexical approach to other word-classes beyond adjectives that were the most frequent object of research within the lexical approach and to other personality-descriptive categories beyond dispositions. A special emphasis will be given to reputations. Finally, the lecture will cover the newer attempts to apply the psycholexical approach to studying the fields of values, virtues, and morality.

psycholexical approach, personality, Big-Five social aspects, values, virtues, morality

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