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Eysenck's Dimensions

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Eysenck proposed that personality reduces to a small number of broad dimensions, initially extraversion and neuroticism.

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Two axes place a person as stable or reactive and as outgoing or reserved.

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Eysenck argued these dimensions have biological bases. That claim is separate from the factor structure itself.