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they must be used carefully.","Many measures were built in one culture and can misjudge people from another."],"affectedParties":["People being assessed","Job applicants","Cultural groups subject to stereotypes"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody: each person holds their own personality.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q9418","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"psychology","type":"related","note":"subject in registry terms"},{"target":"Big Five personality traits","type":"related","note":"in trait models"},{"target":"temperament","type":"related","note":"the innate basis"},{"target":"personality disorder","type":"related","note":"a clinical category"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.personality","Wikidata: Q641118 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q641118)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Big Five traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism list","heritability estimates: about 40-60 percent - twin studies","common measures: NEO-PI, BFI, MMPI list"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["Enduring individual patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour","Big Five traits, temperament, dependency, individual differences, honne and tatemae, charismatic personality","Character is moral evaluation; 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