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The study of personality coherence across time has been limited mostly to nonconditional attributes. By nonconditional attributes, I mean traits such as dominance and extraversion, moods such as happiness, and behaviors such as talking and smiling. These kinds of concepts can be contrasted with explicitly conditional categories such as: My dominance shows when my competence is threatened; I fall apart when people try to comfort me; I talk the most when I am nervous.
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Thorne, A. (1989). Conditional Patterns, Transference, and the Coherence of Personality Across Time. In: Buss, D.M., Cantor, N. (eds) Personality Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0634-4_11
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