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Is is suggested that in order to agree on a paradigm of personality, it is necessary to have agreed criteria. It is argued that factor analysis is not sufficient to provide a proper answer, and that genetic and psychophysiological antecedents and experimental and social outcomes of behavior characteristic of the major dimensions of personality are needed to complete any proper theory of personality. These constitute the distal and proximal causes and effects of such behaviors, and give meaning and relevance to the otherwise purely abstract traits “discovered” by correlational studies.
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Eysenck, H.J. (1993). From DNA to Social Behaviour: Conditions for a Paradigm of Personality Research. In: Hettema, J., Deary, I.J. (eds) Foundations of Personality. NATO ASI Series, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1660-2_4
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