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  2. Ostrich effect - Wikipedia

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    In a sample of 100,000, Sicherman et al. (2016) found that 79% of investors showed the ostrich effect while 21% had “anti-ostrich behaviour”, such as the meerkat effect. The researchers argued that Gherzi et al. (2014) sample size of 617 investors was too small, one potential reason that most investors exhibited the meerkat effect rather ...

  3. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    Further development in Germany and the United States saw the pool based on three languages. Its questions and results have been mapped to various Big Five personality typing models. [70] [71] Kibeom Lee and Michael Ashton released a book describing their HEXACO model in 2004. [72]

  4. Personality development - Wikipedia

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    Personality development encompasses the dynamic construction and deconstruction of integrative characteristics that distinguish an individual in terms of interpersonal behavioral traits. [1] Personality development is ever-changing and subject to contextual factors and life-altering experiences.

  5. Personality psychology - Wikipedia

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    Personality is complex; a typical theory of personality contains several propositions or sub-theories, often growing over time as more psychologists explore the theory. [ 10 ] The most widely accepted empirical model of durable, universal personality descriptors is the system of Big Five personality traits : conscientiousness , agreeableness ...

  6. Biological basis of personality - Wikipedia

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    Eysenck's three-factor model of personality was a causal theory of personality based on activation of reticular formation and limbic system. The reticular formation is a region in the brainstem that is involved in mediating arousal and consciousness. The limbic system is involved in mediating emotion, behavior, motivation, and long-term memory.

  7. Temperament and Character Inventory - Wikipedia

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    The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is an inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger et al. [1] It is closely related to and an outgrowth of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), and it has also been related to the dimensions of personality in Zuckerman's alternative five and Eysenck's models [2] and those of the five factor model.

  8. Hierarchical structure of the Big Five - Wikipedia

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    The justification for circumplex models, which are characterized by the "multidimensional" approach mentioned above, is that they are better able to identify clusters of semantically related characteristics. [7] Although the Big Five model covers a broader range of personality trait space, it is less able to make these sorts of distinctions.

  9. Two-factor models of personality - Wikipedia

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    The two-factor model of personality is a widely used psychological factor analysis measurement of personality, behavior and temperament. It most often consists of a matrix measuring the factor of introversion and extroversion with some form of people versus task orientation.