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The Importance of Psychological Traits - A Cross-Cultural Study (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
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The Importance of Psychological Traits - A Cross-Cultural Study (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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All traits were not created equal. -WORCHEL AND COOPER (1983, p.
180) This book reports the findings from extensive cross-cultural
studies of the relative importance ofdifferent psychological traits
in 20 countries and the relative favorability of these traits in a
subset of 10 countries. While the work is devoted primarily to
professionals and advanced students in the social sciences, the
relatively nontechnical style - ployed should make the book
comprehensible to anyone with a general grasp of the concepts and
strategies ofempirical behavioral science. The project grew out of
discussions between the first author and third author while the
latter was a graduate student at Wake Forest University, U.S.A., in
1990. The third author, a native of Chile, was studying
person-descriptive adjectives composing the stereotypes -
sociatedwiththe Chilean aboriginal minority knownas Mapuche (Saiz
&Williams, 1992). Asweexaminedthe adjectives usedinthisstudy,
it was clear that they differed in favorability and also on another
dim- sionwhichwe latertermed "psychologicalimportance," i.e., the
degree to which adjectives reflected more "central," as opposed to
more "- ripheral,"personality characteristics. More important
descriptors were those which seemed more informative or diagnostic
ofwhat a person "wasreally like"and, hence, might be ofgreater
significance in und- standing and predicting an individual's
behavior.
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