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JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages 82-92Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.10.009
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Trait theory; Social-cognitive; Models; Integrative; Big 5; Traits; Whole Trait Theory; Density distributions
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- Templeton World Charity Foundation - Bahamas NIMH - USA
- John Templeton Foundation
- National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health [R01MH70571]
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Personality researchers should modify models of traits to include mechanisms of differential reaction to situations. Whole Trait Theory does so via five main points. First, the descriptive side of traits can be conceptualized as density distributions of states. Second, it is important to provide an explanatory account of the Big 5 traits. Third, adding an explanatory account to the Big 5 creates two parts to traits, an explanatory part and a descriptive part, and these two parts can be recognized as separate entities that are joined into whole traits. Fourth, Whole Trait Theory proposes that the explanatory side of traits consists of social-cognitive mechanisms. Fifth, social-cognitive mechanisms that produce Big-5 states should be identified. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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