Abstract
Magnusson (1991), recently has said that research in many fields of psychology goes in circles instead of moving forward. This seems especially true for personality psychology, judging by recent publications with inducements to go ’back to the phenomena’ (Magnusson, 1991) or ’back to basics’ (Hogan, 1987), and considering the constantly growing stream of articles in which the rediscovery of Tupes and Christal’s (1961) and Norman’s (1963, 1967) five-factor structure—comprising extraversion or surgency, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability versus neuroticism, and culture—is received with ever greater acclaim (see Wiggins and Trapnell, in press, for an overview).
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Van Heck, G.L. (1993). Identifying Basic Dimensions of Personality. 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_8
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