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Main Selections: How Is Personality Organized?

Overview

• What Is Personality Organization? (Begin Here)

Personality Structure

• Trait Structures
• Personality Types
• Full Personality Structures
• Can Multiple Structural Divisions Be Right?

Personality Dynamics

• Dynamics of Action
• Dynamics of Self-Control

Dynamics of Action

James W. Pennebaker has looked at action in the form of language, the words people use, and what that says about their personality. Access some of his work here:

http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Faculty/Pennebaker/home2000/Words.html