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Person memory: A semantic category model of personality traits: A reply to Hampson
Author(s) -
Kline Paul
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1984.tb01913.x
Subject(s) - psychology , scrutiny , personality , big five personality traits , cognitive psychology , social psychology , philosophy , theology
Hampson (1982) proposed a semantic category model of personality traits, and reported four experiments in its support. Careful scrutiny of these experiments, however, reveals severe flaws, which render their findings irrelevant to the theory.