Recent Trait Theory Research Cattell's Big Five Factors of Personality, Behavioral Genetics, and Evolutionary Personality Theory. Current Research Raymond Cattell (1905-present) designed the "Big five Factors of Personality", in which five classifications are revealed. ... The Big five represents a catalog of traits that some personality psychologists suggest capture the essence of individual differences in personality. ... From this the NEO Personality Inventory was created by Costa and McCrae, which has the highest validity of the Big Five measurement devices. ... In 1984 Bus...

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