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Descriptive, predictive and explanatory personality research: Different goals, different approaches, but a shared need to move beyond the Big Few traits
2020-11-01
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<p>We argue that it is useful to distinguish between three key goals of personality science – description, prediction and explanation – and that attaining them often requires different priorities and methodological approaches. We put forward specific recommendations such as publishing findings with minimum a priori aggregation and exploring the limits of predictive models without being constrained by parsimony and...
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- f483147f-f6b9-5a98-aa1e-2f7a4638ba5d
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/hvk5p