Margaret Mead conducting fieldwork in Bali
American anthropologist Margaret Mead with a woman and her niece in Bali, 1936. Mead conducted fieldwork there to study the role of culture in personality formation.
personality
psychology
personality, a characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Personality embraces moods, attitudes, and opinions and is most clearly expressed in interactions with other people. It includes behavioral characteristics, both inherent and acquired, that distinguish one person from another and that can be observed in people’s relations to the environment and to the social group. The term personality has been defined in many ways, but as a psychological concept two main meanings have evolved. The...
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