What is a personality?

Question

If a personality is a collection of emotions, why do people have the tendency to use different emotions in different situations? What exactly does that make a personality?

Answer 1

See http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11727b.htm

This is really intesting too: http://sfhelp.org/01/innerfam2.htm
"Your personality is the evolving mosaic of beliefs, values, talents, limitations, memories, reflexes, priorities, fears, perceptions, and habits that makes you unique among all living and dead humans. Each subself is semi-independent, has its own goals, gifts, and limits, and experiences the world uniquely.

"Each subself can ally with, ignore, dis/trust, respect, scorn, or conflict with every other subself. Your inner family of subselves can range between harmonious and purposeful to chaotic and unfocused, depending on who leads it locally and over time. Survivors of low-nurturance childhoods tend to have personalities ruled by excessively shamed, guilty, fearful, confused, and angry subselves and protective Guardians - a "false self" - until the person decides to meet and harmonize their team under the expert guidance of their resident true Self."

Answer 2

You already said what a personality is- it is the tendency to use different emotions at different times.

Answer 3

Something that Jessica Simpson needs

Answer 4

A personality can either be a famous person, or the character of a person.

Answer 5

an individuality is a collection of impressions left upon one by the environment, other beings be they "animals", "human" or "alien", and especially every day 'little' occurances be they considered usual or unusual, typical or atypical..

Answer 6

Personality is the thing that defines you and what you're like.

Answer 7

you said it all