5 декабря — регулярный семинар ЛССИ

5 декабря в 16:30 (GMT+3, 14:30 CET) состоится очередной регулярный семинар  Лаборатории сравнительных социальных исследований. С докладом на тему “Comparative Studies of the Evolution of Personality: The Complex Five Factor Model Versusa Focus on Simple Facets” выступит Михаил Минков (Варненский университет менеджмента; научный руководитель ЛССИ НИУ ВШЭ).

Семинар пройдет в онлайн-формате. Ссылка на встречу в Zoom будет выслана после регистрации.

Аннотация:

The study of animal personality is a rapidly expanding field, now covering more than 200 species, some of them multiple times. One of the reasons for that is the notion that knowledge of animal personality helps us understand human personality and its evolution. Many studies of animal personality, especially primate personality, use the human Five Factor Model (FFM), claim that some or all of the human factors replicate, at least in some primates, and attempt to trace the evolution of those factors back to the period before the separation of humans from other apes, and even earlier. I argue that the human FFM is inappropriate for the study of any animal personality since much of the FFM consists of uniquely human characteristics that are impossible without a human mind functioning in a human culture. Besides, the human FFM replicates very poorly, even within studies of chimpanzees and across such studies: their authors disregard even the most basic invariance criteria, such as percentage of items with highest loadings on the same factor. I suggest focusing on simple FFM facets rather than complex traits. Some of these facets (activity/energy, curiosity/exploration, sociability, anxiety/fearfulness) are meaningful descriptors not only of primates but also of much simpler organisms. This simplification would allow tracing the history of those facets from the simplest organisms (anemones) to the most complex (primates, including humans). 

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Рабочий язык мероприятия — английский.