Personality traits affect game (long)

[killphilNI]

Good post Justin, I have been looking for a discussion of this type on this forum. I studied psychology a little earlier in my degree and we covered personality traits. There are 5 major personality traits (scientifically proven). The neurohormone hypothesis is interesting and logical but over time it has largely fallen out of favour and has been replaced by the 5 robust factors, namely:

Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extraversion/Intraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

(OCEAN is an easy way of remembering them)

Here is a wikipedia explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_fiv...onality_traits

Have a read through and see what you think. Although I didn't develop a scoring system, it was something that had crossed my mind but I didn't know where I would begin scoring everyone at the table on these five factors. Instead, I read over these traits a few times to help me better understand my opponents. It certainly helped my game a lot but it wasn't as poker-relevant the stuff in your post.