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Assertiveness - Strongly insistent, self-assured, and demanding behavior. |
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Authoritarianism - The personality pattern or syndrome consisting of behavioral and attitudinal characteristics reflecting a preoccupation with the factors of power and authority in interpersonal relationships. |
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Character - In current usage, approximately equivalent to personality. The sum of the relatively fixed personality traits and habitual modes of response of an individual. |
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Creativeness - The ability to construct new ideas or images. |
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Dependency (Psychology) - The tendency of an individual or individuals to rely on others for advice, guidance, or support. |
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Empathy - An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992) |
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Individuality - Those psychological characteristics which differentiate individuals from one another. |
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Intelligence - The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions. |
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Leadership - The function of directing or controlling the actions or attitudes of an individual or group with more or less willing acquiescence of the followers. |
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Machiavellianism - A personality dimension characterized by the manipulation of others. |
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Negativism - State of mind or behavior characterized by extreme skepticism and persistent opposition or resistance to outside suggestions or advice. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994) |
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Personality Development - Growth of habitual patterns of behavior in childhood and adolescence. |
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Temperament - Predisposition to react to one's environment in a certain way; usually refers to mood changes. |
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