naive personality theories

a set of ideas that laypeople tend to hold about how specific personality traits cluster together within a person. Such theories, which are often held implicitly rather than explicitly, are a major concern of attribution theory. Also called implicit personality theories; layperson personality theories. See naive analysis of action. See also implicit self theory.

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November 24th 2024

commonality analysis

in multiple regression, a technique by which the known variance in an outcome or response variable is separated out into the parts that can be uniquely attributed to each individual predictor variable and the parts that are common to any two or more variables.