Tag
Trait Theory
Entries tagged trait theory.
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Mental model
The Big Five Personality Traits
Five broad, statistically independent dimensions, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, that keep reappearing whenever personality description is factor-analyzed.
9 min
ConceptThe Person-Situation Debate
Walter Mischel's demonstration that personality traits predict behavior far more weakly across situations than assumed, and the interactionist synthesis it eventually produced.
9 min