Surviving Two Critiques by Block? The Resilient Big Five Have Emerged as the Paradigm for Personality Trait Psychology

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments The work of the first author on this article was supported, in part, by grants from the Retirement Research Foundation and the Metanexus Institute as well as by a sabbatical leave provided by the University of California, Berkeley. The work of the second author was supported by an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship. We are grateful to Lewis R. Goldberg and Samuel D. Gosling for their thoughtful comments on this article.