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Personality
Personality is a person’s unique behavioral and cognitive patterns; OR, a person’s unique consistent pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. For example, some peoples’ personality tends to be shy and introspective while others tend to be outgoing and extroverted. Because personalities, by definition, are stable patterns that cannot be changed easily, there has been great debate between personality theorists and social psychologists about the actual impact of personality on behavior, thought, and emotion. For example, if someone is shy, does that mean that they will virtually never act in an outgoing manner?
