(https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/arts/mister-rogers-tv-s-friend-for-children-is-dead-at-74.html).
Please address the following questions for this assignment:
What can we say about Mr. Rogers’s disposition? Was he neurotic or emotionally stable? Extraverted or introverted? Open or conventional? Agreeable or disagreeable? Conscientious or aimless?
In other words, based on the evidence presented in the obituary, where would a personality psychologist place Mr. Rogers on each of the five dimensions of the Five-Factor Model (FFM)? On which facets would he have been particularly low or high?
Read his adopted sister’s obituary and discuss the similarities and dissimilarities of personality traits between these two siblings (https://triblive.com/news/nancy-rogers-crozier-sister-of-mister-rogers-devoted-life-to-latrobe/). Do you believe Mr. Rogers inherited these traits or were they a product of his environment?
Given what we know about the study of the brain, is there any suggestion in the obituary that Mr. Rogers’ brain may have changed throughout his lifetime? If so, would you associate these changes with natural biological maturation, the environment (i.e. social setting), or a combination of both factors? Are there any areas of the brain which you would estimate might have been larger for Mr. Rogers? Which other brain connections, based on your analysis of the FFM, would you associate with Mr. Rogers?
What does the life of Mr. Rogers illustrate about stability and change for human personality? What stayed the same and what changed about him over the course of his life? Did he act similarly across different situations?