Abstract
The present study investigated whether Norman's five highly replicable factors of personality could be found in the intercorrelations among prototypicality ratings of acts for traits. Moreover, by factor analyzing cross-correlations among prototypicality ratings, in which the ratings for each trait pair stemmed from different judges, it was checked whether the intercorrelations among prototypicality ratings are influenced by semantic bias. Eight judges rated the prototypicality of 120 varbally described acts for Norman's 40 marker traits. The prototypicality of each act was judged with respect to each trait. When the correlations among the prototypicality ratings were factor analyzed, Norman's Big Five could clearly be identified. This finding was replicated for the cross-correlations, and it was thus demonstrated that semantic bias is unimportant for the correlations among prototypicality ratings. It is argued that the five major factors of personality reflect basic dimensions of meaning that underlie the attribution of traits on the basis of the observation of behavior.
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