Concepts of trait and personality.

Abstract

First published in Psychological Bulletin,24,[284][285][286][287][288][289][290][291][292][293] Bibliographies by May and Hartshorne (25), Manson (23), and Roback (34) bear out the statement of G. B. Watson (42) that " It is almost impossible to find a trait for which an adjective exists which has not been approached with some degree of suggestive investigation." Confusion has arisen from the fact that these investigations, with their ambition to determine magnitudes, give only an occasional glance at problems of terminology and theory.

Estrutura Ontológica para representar Papéis Colaborativos Afetivos em ambientes CSCL

“…Neste estudo, os traços de personalidade são definidos como tendências comportamentais (Pacheco & Sisto, 2003) que são comuns a todas as pessoas e individuais a cada ser humano (Allport, 1927). Dessa forma, a intensidade pela qual os traços de personalidade são expressos varia de pessoa para pessoa e, em geral, está relacionada ao grau em que as características do traço se manifesta em um indivíduo.…”

Neural synchrony and white matter variations in the human brain — Relation between evoked gamma frequency and corpus callosum morphology

“…Interestingly, the frequency of the eGBR evident in the human scalp EEG is found to be highly variable across individuals and, at the same time, relatively constant within individuals (Frund et al, 2007). This phenomenon together with the behavioural relevance of the eGBR (Kaiser et al, 2008(Kaiser et al, , 2009 represent the prerequisites for a measure to be considered a personal trait variable (Allport, 1972) and have lead to the assumption of an individual gamma-trait (Zaehle et al, 2009). Moreover, the frequency of the auditory evoked GBR depends on the resonance properties of the individual auditory cortex; a fact that strongly indicates a neuroanatomical determinate of the evoked individual gamma frequency (Zaehle et al, 2010).…”

Achieving and Sustaining a Good Life

“…They may accept the fact-value distinction central to logical positivism and regard psychology as being solely about facts. For example, consider how Gordon Allport (1921Allport ( , 1927Allport ( , 1937, the premier personality theorist in the United States during the 20th century, explicitly banished the study of character from psychology, as he deemed it too value-laden for psychology. Allport called instead for the study of traits, neuropsychic structures stripped of moral significance and linked to adjustment but not imbued with inherent value (Nicholson, 1998).…”