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  2. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    There is also little evidence that adverse life events can have any significant impact on the personality of individuals. [149] More recent research and meta-analyses of previous studies, however, indicate that change occurs in all five traits at various points in the lifespan. The new research shows evidence for a maturation effect.

  3. Personality psychology - Wikipedia

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    Responses are analyzed for common themes. Responses unique to an individual are theoretically meant to indicate underlying thoughts, processes, and potentially conflicts present within the individual. [2] Responses are believed to be directly linked to unconscious motives. There is very little empirical evidence available to support these methods.

  4. Biological basis of personality - Wikipedia

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    The biological basis of personality is a collection of brain systems and mechanisms that underlie human personality. Human neurobiology, especially as it relates to complex traits and behaviors, is not well understood, but research into the neuroanatomical and functional underpinnings of personality are an active field of research.

  5. Forensic firearm examination - Wikipedia

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    Forensic firearm examination is the forensic process of examining the characteristics of firearms or bullets left behind at a crime scene.Specialists in this field try to link bullets to weapons and weapons to individuals.

  6. Type A and Type B personality theory - Wikipedia

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    The Type A and Type B personality concept describes two contrasting personality types.In this hypothesis, personalities that are more competitive, highly organized, ambitious, impatient, highly aware of time management, or aggressive are labeled Type A, while more relaxed, "receptive", less "neurotic" and "frantic" personalities are labeled Type B.

  7. Attribution (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    It describes how people try to find out an individual's personal characteristics from the behavioral evidence. People make inferences on the basis of three factors; degree of choice, expectedness of behavior, and effects of someone's behaviors.

  8. Personality change - Wikipedia

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    Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns. [4] Every person has their own "individual differences in particular personality characteristics" [4] that separate them from others. The overall study of personality focuses on two broad areas: understanding individual differences in ...

  9. Behavioural genetics - Wikipedia

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    Selective breeding and the domestication of animals is perhaps the earliest evidence that humans considered the idea that individual differences in behaviour could be due to natural causes. [1] Plato and Aristotle each speculated on the basis and mechanisms of inheritance of behavioural characteristics. [2]