#1312 Kevin Mitchell: How to Understand Individual Differences in Psychological Traits

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopson, today I'm joined for a fifth time by Dr. Kevin Mitchell. He's associate professor of genetics and neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. And today we're going to talk about individual differences in psychological traits, how we can study them, how we should. Інтерпрет тем ансу A gro a little bit about group differences. So, Kevin, welcome back on the show. You're already a regular. So Yeah, thanks, Ricardo. It's great to be back. Thanks a lot. Okay, so um let me start by asking you this. Of course, some of the things we're going to talk about today, we've already at least touched on them, perhaps not into the level of detail that we're going to talk about.

them today when in our first interview about your book inate, but Um What are individual differences in psychological traits? I mean, what are people? Talking about psychologists, neurosciєнtiстs, cognitive scientists. when we refer to that.

Yeah, I think I mean. I think we can just start with like what are we all talking about when we describe people in different ways. We're just recognizing that they have some stable patterns of behaving. Um That

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