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It has recently become increasingly popular to claim that individual differences in personality are not very important sources of variation in human behavior. It has been suggested that the noncognitive traits that can be identified show very little consistency across situations, and that although the search for consistent dimensions of personality was reasonable, it has not proved to be very useful and should be abandoned.
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Revelle, W., Anderson, K.J., Humphreys, M.S. (1987). Empirical Tests and Theoretical Extensions of Arousal-Based Theories of Personality. In: Strelau, J., Eysenck, H.J. (eds) Personality Dimensions and Arousal. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2043-0_2
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