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The Five Factor Model

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The Five Factor Model describes personality along openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

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The same five dimensions emerge from trait vocabularies across many languages and cultures.

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Cross-cultural recurrence is the model's main support. Why these five and not others remains unsettled.