April 4 Twitter/FB answer

Gordon Allport did this. One story is that he had graduate students identify thousands of words from a dictionary that described personality traits. Then they winnowed the list down to a few central traits that seem to fully describe personalities.

From FlipFlash: Psychology, now available in the iPhone App Store. Ideal for pre-test review for AP and IB students.

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