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2 unusual facts about Big Five personality traits


Big Five personality traits

In a 1980 symposium in Honolulu, four prominent researchers, Lewis Goldberg, Naomi Takemoto-Chock, Andrew Comrey, and John M. Digman, reviewed the available personality tests of the day.

Recent work has found relationships between Geert Hofstede’s cultural factors, Individualism, Power Distance, Masculinity, and Uncertainty Avoidance, with the average Big Five scores in a country.


Evaluative diversity

The Agreeableness and Openness dimensions of Big Five personality scales are measures of evaluative preference.

Narrative identity

A person’s narrative identity is a layer of personality related to, but distinct from the broad dispositional traits (The Big Five) and contextualized characteristic adaptations, described in Dan P. McAdams's three-level framework.


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Only child

In his book Born to Rebel, Frank Sulloway provides evidence that birth order influences the development of Big Five personality traits.