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Assignment: Part 1: The Big Five Personality Inventory

Complete the Big Five Personality Inventory and then post your comments about your experience taking it.

Discuss your results on The Big Five. Do you think these results are accurate? Why or why not? Were you surprised by any of your results? Do you consider results to be culturally biased?

Part 2: SM has no fear, she lives entirely without this one emotion due to a rare medical condition. One might reason that her life should be perfect, but it is not. According to psychologist Paul Ekman, all humans are born with six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.

You can read more about other and more global ideas of what the range of emotions are here (attached file).

After you have contemplated being hardwired with a set of six emotions, read the transcript to this podcast about SM--scroll down to the second mention of "This is INVISIBILIA" if you are short on time and go from there. Then, speculate and discuss why we need fear and anxiety, how it can cause us mental distress, but also how it shapes a healthy life. What do you think her existence is like without one of the basic emotions? How might it affect your parenting, driving, crossing the street and do forth? Finally, If you could chose to eliminate one of your emotions, which one would it be and why?