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Trait vs State

A topic within Personality & Individual Differences, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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Paper1988

Profiting from Controversy: Lessons from the Person-Situation Debate

Douglas T. Kenrick & David C. Funder

Reviews the decades-long argument over whether traits or situations better predict behaviour and concludes both sides overstated their case, since later research established that traits predict behaviour reliably once it is aggregated across many occasions rather than judged from a single encounter.

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Paper2001

Toward a Structure- and Process-Integrated View of Personality: Traits as Density Distributions of States

William Fleeson

Proposes that a trait is best understood not as a fixed level but as a person's characteristic distribution of momentary states, and shows people vary in their day-to-day behaviour nearly as much as they differ from each other on average.

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Profiting from Controversy: Lessons from the Person-Situation Debate

Toward a Structure- and Process-Integrated View of Personality: Traits as Density Distributions of States

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