One of the earliest attempts to categorize personality traits came from Allport & Odbert (1936), who identified 4,500 terms in the dictionary that related to personality. Later, statistical methods were used to reduce these words to a list of ___ personality traits.

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Raymond Cattell used factor analysis to reduce Allport and Odbert's list to 16 personality traits, which he believed could describe human personality.

One of the Earliest Attempts to Categorize Personality Traits Came