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In the English language there are almost 30,000 words and countless more expressions to describe personality traits. Hearing someone described as cold, callous, kind, tender-hearted, lazy, diligent, likeable or anti-social gives us clues to their character and preferences, whether we will like them and how they might respond to a variety of roles and situations.
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© 2014 John Taylor, Adrian Furnham, and Janet Breeze
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Taylor, J., Furnham, A., Breeze, J. (2014). Personality. In: Revealed. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325938_5
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