High‐dimensionality structure in English‐language personality type‐nouns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7160337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vinita Vader (0000-0003-1004-6718, Department of Psychology University of Oregon Eugene Oregon USA, corresponding author), Gerard Saucier (0000-0003-3262-0469, Department of Psychology University of Oregon Eugene Oregon USA) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 425-448 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jopy.12940 |
| PMID | 38761020 |
| OpenAlex | W4397036087 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
OBJECTIVE: Past applications of the lexical approach to type-noun personality structures have yielded different results compared with those generated for adjectival personality structures, since then new methods have arisen for identifying robust higher-dimensionality structure in data. This research aims to identify an optimal taxonomy of English language type-nouns. METHOD: Current study reanalyzed 372 type-nouns from a previous study emphasizing robustness across methodological variations (original vs. ipsatized data, oblique vs. orthogonal rotations, convergence between male and female target ratings) to determine a replicable but more comprehensive model of personality type-noun structure. RESULTS: A 13-factor original-data oblimin-rotated solution was determined to be the most robust model, except for a one-factor model that was far less comprehensive and informative; an original-data 32-factor oblimin-rotated solution was also fairly robust. Although each of the Big Five adjectival markers indicated a large correlation with one or more type-noun factors; nearly half of the 13 type-noun factors lacked such large correlations with the Big Five. CONCLUSIONS: A high-dimensionality approach thus indicated that type-nouns capture substantial content beyond the Big Five. A comparison with the character-types described by an ancient philosopher (Theophrastus) signified that some granular type-noun dimensions may have stability across multiple millennia
Cognitive psychology · Curse of dimensionality · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Personality · Robustness (evolution) · Type (biology) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |