Practice question · True or false
The Big Five were proposed by a theorist who argued personality should have five dimensions.
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- Where did the number five come from?
- Nobody chose it.
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False
Why
False. They fell out of factor analysis of trait adjectives, repeatedly producing the same five groupings across languages and samples. Nobody chose five or which five, that is the model's main claim to objectivity, and also why the factors ended up with such awkward names.
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