Why is it especially difficult to develop good measures of personality?
A) Personality is caused by unconscious processes, which cannot be observed.
B) Personality is extremely stable, and it is very difficult to measure something that doesn't change.
C) We are trying to measure how someone acts in general, but their behavior may change from moment to moment.
D) Most languages, including English, simply do not have enough words or concepts to allow us to describe personality.
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