When It Comes to Personality, How Can We Count the Ways?

Psychology Today | 17.02.2026 23:48
The idea that people differ in fundamental ways of feeling, thinking, and acting goes back to ancient times. From the classic “four humors” of Hippocrates to contemporary models of the Big Five (or Five Factor) and the HEXACO (six trait), no one seems able to settle on what the magic number might be that captures these systematic individual patterns.
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