Personality is partly inborn and mediated by brain structures,
hormones and neurotransmitters. It influences social behaviours such as
gambling, sexual behaviour, extreme sports, impulse control disorders and
criminality. Is there an additive personality? Do men and women differ in
personality? Modern research on the connections between neural presences
and personality is presented and evolutionary reasons offered for some of the
variations.
For download and transcript versions of this lecture, please visit the event's page of the Gresham College website: Personality and the Brain.
Bio
Dr. Glenn Wilson
As well as being one of Britain's best-known psychologists, Glenn Wilson is the Visiting Gresham Professor of Psychology. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and has published more than 150 scientific articles and 33 books.
He is an expert on individual differences; social and political attitudes; sexual behavior, deviation and dysfunction; and psychology applied to the performing arts. Not one to shy away from contention, his most recent books include: Born Gay: The Psychobiology of Sex Orientation, The Secret of Lasting Love and Psychology for Performing Artists.He has lectured widely abroad, having been a guest of the Italian Cultural Association, and a visiting professor at California State University, Los Angeles, San Francisco State University, Stanford University, the University of Nevada, Reno and Sierra Nevada College.
Apart from being a professional psychologist, Dr. Wilson trained as an opera singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and still undertakes professional engagements as an actor, singer and director.