Psychology / Unit 10 Psych 1142 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Five Factor Model
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The idea
The Five Factor Model describes personality along openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
In practice
The same five dimensions emerge from trait vocabularies across many languages and cultures.
Where people slip
Cross-cultural recurrence is the model's main support. Why these five and not others remains unsettled.
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