Four Quadrants of Personality: Extending Psychoanalysis with Motion
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A blog post proposes a new model of personality based on four quadrants, sparking skepticism about its reductive nature.
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dogbreath211
4 months ago
This seems a little reductive? Isn’t personality thought of as 5 factor traits?
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