Huw,
Dear Huang,
This quote suggests that you are considering personality as orthogonal to
cognition. Is this so, and, if so, what is to be gained by doing so,
please?
The general view is that cognition is the set of engines that get driven
by higher level functions, such as personality.
Huw,
If you're interested in 'higher level functions', I can commend vol. 4 of
the collected works of L.S. Vygotsky (The History of the Development of
Higher Level Functions). You will not find all the answers here, but you
will find a promising way of thinking about the problems and how to
Dear Huw,
Thanks for your interests and comments.
I think different models (e.g., FFM and MBTI) at present are unable to be
orthogonal to each other, even though inernal orthogonality may be obtained
to some extent in one model. I think each of these models can capture only
some aspects of
