Carroll defines confirmation bias as " a type of selective thinking whereby one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue the relevance of what contradicts one's beliefs ("The Skeptic's Dictionary,"" 2002)."" ... The stimulus materials (see Appendix A) were two variations of a form describing a situation, that if the participant was a clinical psychologist about to conduct an interview with a new client whom he/she suspects to be introverted/extraverted (depending on the questionnaire), then which of the sets of quest...

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Communication is essentially defined as what one says and action is how one conduct themselves. ... The first of the pairs are extraverted (E) and introverted (I). ... On the other hand, an introverted person is reserved, works better alone, and frequently reflects on experiences. ...

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Cattell defined personality as that which permits a prediction of what a person will do in a given situations'. ... He defined traits as important semi-permanent personality disposition (1981,p.3). ... Superfactor defines a dimension with a low end (introversion) and a high end (extraversion), such that people may fall along various points between the two extremes. ... For example, the introverted person may behave in an extraverted fashion in certain situations. ...

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Personality is not completely consistent nor entirely at the mercy of the environment and change. It is a mixture of both. Exactly what aspects of personality are consistent over time is impossible to answer. However, many theories have attempted to explain why personality is consistent and how it c...

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A psychologist, Henry Murray, took a very broad approach to personality defining it as the "branch of psychology which principally concerns itself with the study of human lives and the factors which influence their course which investigates individual differences" (Murray, 1938, p.345). ...

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