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Traits are enduring dimensions of personality characteristics along which people differ. Since each person probably possesses certain traits, what makes them different is the degree to which a given trait applies to a single person. Traits allow us to compare one person with another and provide an explanation for a person's behavioral consistency. Assigning certain negative traits to a person may cause a person to be stigmatized by others. Assigning other, more positive traits to a person may raise peoples' expectations of them and cause them undo pressure in many situations.
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In what ways are Cattell's 16 source traits, Eysenck's three dimensions, and the "Big Five" factors similar, and in what ways are they different? Which traits seem to appear in all three schemes (under one name or another) and which are unique to one scheme? Is this significant?





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