Knowledge of human nature
Knowledge of human nature is the ability to conduct or character judge of people because a first impression right to recognize and assess and predict how they think and how they will act.
Critical factors for this ability are life experience , intuition , intelligence and wisdom . Knowledge of human nature is not innate; it is acquired through frequent contact with people and through experience with many different people.
Knowledge of human nature can be used to judge people correctly, to motivate them, to give other people good advice, to enter into deeper relationships, etc. It can also be used to your own advantage, for example when you convince people, seduce or wants to sell them something.
There are numerous models and personality tests for the theoretical acquisition of human knowledge, such as the Big Five , the Myers-Briggs type indicator or the Enneagram .
See also
literature
- GEO Subject Lexicon Volume 13, Psychology 2007
- Alfred Adler : Knowledge of human nature. Anaconda, Cologne 2008, ISBN 3866471955 .
- Chaehan So: Knowledge of human nature . Did you see right away? In: Brain & Mind . April 2012 (online as Psychology: Mensch, what a mistake! In: Spiegel Online . March 31, 2012)
- Georg Brunold (ed.): Handbook of human knowledge: conjectures from 2,500 years. Galinani, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86971-164-5 .