ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
If Gordon Allport was right, the Likert-type personality scales must be very poor descriptors of personality: he was right.
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- The Game of Self: Identity and Experience as Active Inference.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2026Article
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Abstract
Gordon Allport suggested that personality has several characteristics: it is inherently inconsistent and contradictory, it is situation-dependent, where situational determinants of personality traits are crucial in structured scenarios, while internal determinants prevail in unstructured situations. Additionally, personality develops not only through maturation, and personality traits cannot be quantitatively expressed as fixed amounts along a continuum of a specific trait. Moreover, "common traits" or general personality dispositions act as useful approximations rather than true personality characteristics. Current theories, particularly the Five-Factor Theory (FFT), challenge all characteristics proposed by Allport. This study provides evidence from two distinct analyses-the reexamination of data from a previous study (
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