7Extraversion and agreeableness in combination
If you were to search a good dictionary, you could be expected to find more words relating to extraversion and agreeableness than for any of the other Big Five personality dimensions.1 Between them, these two dimensions account for around half of the variability in personality across populations. Together, the variants of these two factors describe the interpersonal domain, which is represented diagrammatically, with quadrant labels2 (see Figure 7.1).
Many have implied, or argued, that this interpersonal domain is the most important area of psychological functioning.3 Others have gone so far as ...
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