Modern day science has developed five aspects of personality. These five traits are used as metrics to describe personality. Many experts have pointed towards five traits which are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.

Personality is a unique set of characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes that define an individual’s distinctive pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

More than just giving a simple map to understand and describe these personalities. These traits predict many aspects of behaviors i.e. performance, relationship, job and even health outcomes.

After studying theories , it is said that there were a lot of traits which existed. Gordon Allport’s list contains 4,000 traits. Similarly Raymond Cattell’s report contains 16 personalities and the list goes on. 

Many researchers support the concept of five core personalities. And that’s how 5 personality traits came into existence and gave a deep and broad view for understanding personalities.

The ones in this category deal with a high range of interests and they tend to learn new things. They are curious about the world. People who are up in this trait are more likely to be adventurous and creative. 

Individuals in conscientiousness traits deal with a high thoughtfulness level, they have good control in their impulses. They have a goal oriented behavior. This trait also refers to individuals who are organized, plan for ahead and conscious of how their behavior affects others.

This trait refers to how an individual interacts in social places. The one in extraversion shows excitability, sociality, assertiveness and is more likely to be talkative. They are more outgoing and expose themselves to enough people in order to gain energy.

It refers to trust, kindness, cooperative and affection traits. Like the name suggests the individual agrees more on particular situations.

Individuals in these traits are associated with sadness, mood swings, anxiety and emotional instability. They often deal with disturbed thoughts. 

It is to remember that these traits have high and low metrics. And according to them, a person deals with different emotions.

These traits are remembered by words, the words resemble traits in an order. Many use the word OCEAN (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism).

The word CANOE  is also used (conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion).