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  1. Mar 30, 2021 · Personality traits are characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior that distinguish individuals from one another (Roberts & Mroczek, 2008). Traits are relatively consistent across situations and contexts, reflecting the enduring and often automatic ways in which people respond to environmental cues.

    • Michael Daly
    • michael.a.daly@mu.ie
    • 2021
  2. Borrowing loosely from Allport’s definition of personality, personality can be viewed as the dynamic organization within an individual of various psychological factors that determines the person’s characteristic thoughts and behaviors.

  3. Personality is a patterned body of habits, traits, attitudes and ideas of an individual as these are organized externally into roles and statuses and as they relate internally to motivation, goals and various aspects of selfhood.

  4. Jan 1, 2013 · Personality refers to psychological attributes, such as values, attitudes, affect, character, or beliefs. House (1981) goes further in arguing that personality denotes traits more than states, defining personality as “a generic label for stable and persisting psychological attributes” (p. 527).

    • Jason Schnittker
    • jschnitt@ssc.upenn.edu
    • 2013
  5. The point is that a trait is a theoretical entity, a hypothesized, underlying component of an individual that is used to explain that person's behavioral consistencies and the differences between behavioral consistencies of different persons. [ibid.]

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  6. In sociology personality is conceived as the product of interaction. Group life, institutions, and tradition are equally important, if not more so, than instincts or "prepo tent reflexes," in the determination of personality. In fact, personality may be conceived as the "subjective aspect of culture," to adapt a phrase of W. I. Thomas. The ...

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  8. May 9, 2017 · Many personality traits are intrinsically social, in that they describe how an individual relates to others: one cannot be honest, kind, rude, assertive, or even independent, without

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