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naive personality theories

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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