Personality.

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a high end (extraversion), such that people may fall along various points between the two extremes. He labeled the three dimensions as introversion-extraversion, neuroticisms and psychoticism.
Traits account for regularities in the functioning of a person across situations and overtime. Allport places personal dispositions on a continuum from those that are most central to those that are of only peripheral importance to a person. There are three levels of personal traits or dispositions.
The first one is a cardinal trait that expresses a disposition that every act is traceable to its influence and it dominated an individual. The second is central traits (e.g. honesty, kindness, and assertiveness) express dispositions that cover a more limited range of situations than is true for cardinal traits. The last one is secondary traits represent dispositions that are the least salient and more restricted in their applicability.
Allport suggested that behavior expressed the action of many traits, that conflicting dispositions can exist...