Almost all of human personality boils down to just five traits

Decades of factor-analysis on personality descriptions across languages and cultures kept collapsing into the same five dimensions: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. It's the closest thing personality psychology has to a periodic table, and it still outperforms most personality tests you've taken.

— Ernest Tupes & Raymond Christal; popularized by Lewis Goldberg, Robert McCrae & Paul Costa, The Big Five personality traits (OCEAN model) — USAF Technical Report, 1961; NEO-PI-R, 1980s-90s

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