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The Importance of Psychological Traits: A Cross-Cultural Study

The Importance of Psychological Traits: A Cross-Cultural Study

Williams, John E.
Satterwhite, Robert C.
Saiz, José L.

Hardcover

Series: The Springer Social Clinical Psychology

CognitionGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0306458896
ISBN13: 9780306458897
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 31 1998
Pages: 193
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 likeand, hence, might be ofgreater significance in und- standing and predicting an individual's behavior.

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