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Psychologists Question ‘Universal’ Personality Traits
January 10, 2013 by NewsBot
For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a group of five personality traits - or slight variations of these five - are a universal feature of human psychology. However, a study by anthropologists at UC Santa Barbara raises doubt about the veracity of that five-factor model (FFM) of personality structure as it relates to indigenous populations...