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WAPLT? Dejected, Forlorn, Melancholic: The DFM Spectrum
People on the DFM spectrum typically experience chronic feelings of sadness and depression that persist even when things are going well. According to the Darwinian evolutionary model, these individuals are oriented to the pain polarity and tend to behave in a passive, giving-up manner. As with the others, the spectrum has three levels, with varying… Continue reading
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WAPLT? Confident, Egotistic, Narcissistic: The CEN Spectrum
Narcissistic individuals are one of two “independent” personality patterns on the Evolutionary Model. They exhibit a primary reliance on self rather than others and have learned that maximum pleasure and minimum pain are achieved by diminishing the significance of others and turning passively to the high status they assign to themselves. Although equally imbalanced as… Continue reading
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Ideologically Flawed Encyclopedia Article
I searched “Abortion in Animals” in The Free Dictionary, and this was the first result: That’s an interesting warning: “The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically flawed.” Continue reading
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Why People Keep Arguing Over What Jan 6 Was
It’s hard to categorize because it seems they were attempting to have it be an insurrection, but their strategy is so far from a realistic attempt that it could also be argued that they failed to even make the attempt. It’s like trying to kill someone with a rubber knife. You’re attempting murder, but there’s… Continue reading
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Why Are People Like This? Index
The links are in the order I suggest you read the series, but it’s written so you can jump around. The non-links are posts I’m planning to write. Continue reading
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WAPLT? Evolutionary Phases and Neuropsychological Stages
One important theoretical aspect of Millon’s bioevolutionary model of personality is that the survival functions develop over the course of each individual’s life as well as over the course of evolution. Thus we can see as young humans grow, they gain competence with each of the survival functions. Since these are the primary functions we… Continue reading
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WAPLT? Trait Domain and Spectra Variant Tables
This post is two quite handy tables Millon includes in his 2011 book that are worth sharing. Together they provide an overview of the information the individual personality spectra posts cover. The second column lists the spectra, with the first several letters or an abbreviation of the third personality included for ease of reading. The… Continue reading
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WAPLT? Trait Domains
While the evolutionary polarities model the underlying structure of personality, they aren’t very useful for identifying someone’s personality. The trait domains are a set of eight kinds of characteristics. Millon’s model includes fifteen possible characteristics for each domain, each corresponding to a different personality spectrum. While some of the characteristics can be identified by oneself,… Continue reading
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WAPLT? Sociable, Pleasuring, Histrionic: The SPH Spectrum
This group of personalities shares a common characteristic of turning to others as their primary strategy to achieve their goals. Unlike those in the DAD (dependent) spectrum who tend to take a passive dependency stance, the SPH personalities take an active dependency stance. They engage in a variety of manipulative, seductive, gregarious, and attention-getting maneuvers… Continue reading
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