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Raymond Cattell

Gordon Allport

Trait Theory

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"Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change." - Gordon Allport

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Ernest Tupes, Raymond Christal, and Warren Norman proposed that there were five recurring factors in Cattell's sixteen: Surency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Culture, Emotional Stability.

Sir Francis Galton applied the Lexical Hypothesis which states that words are inherently "expressive of character."

Raymond Cattell developed factor analysis, a technique used to investigate variability. This led to 16 Fundamental Factors.

1936

2001

1947

Allport and Obert take this a step further and identify close to 4,500 words in the English language that can be used to describe personality.

Hans Eysenck proposed that there were really only two pertinent dimensions of personality: Extraversion and Neuroticism.

William Fleeson became a big proponent of understanding how traits vary across contexts and time.