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Letter: Editor's reply to "Proliferating personality traits"

Published 8 July 2015

• It would be useful to compare newer studies using the six-trait model with older ones using five. But the five common factors are not identical across both models – there have been some changes to two of them.

Issue no. 3029 published 11 July 2015

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