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trait(s) de caractère

English translation: character traits

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French term or phrase:	trait(s) de caractère
English translation:	character traits
Entered by:	liz askew

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12:19 Sep 17, 2009

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Psychology / psychology

French term or phrase: trait(s) de caractère

Content of character?

garthelgard Not a translator KudoZ activity Questions: 7 (none open) Answers: 2 France
Local time: 17:39

character traits

Explanation:
The Nonexistence of Character Traits
In other words, although it may seem perfectly obvious, at least to someone who is unfamiliar with social psychology, that people differ in character traits ...
www.princeton.edu/~harman/Papers/Virresp.html - Cached - Similar

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Handbook of Child Psychology: Social, emotional, and personality ... - Google Books Result
by William Damon, Richard M. Lerner - 2006 - Psychology - 1128 pages
The common themes in these positions are that habits and character traits are at the core of morality and that American society is in moral crisis, decay, ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0471272906...

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Lack of Character - Cambridge University Press
The fragmentation of character; 5. Judging character; 6. From psychology to ... lead to a reexamination of time-worn views about character traits and their ...
www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn... - Cached - Similar

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BTW
personality traits = traits de personnalité

see
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=traits de pe...

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BTW
can I say that this is rather odd
my computer clock says 1538 now!
so how could I possibly have posted this at 1537??

Obviously I haven't edited my time, cos I answered this ages ago!

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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:39

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4 +7

character traits

liz askew

4 +1

personality traits

savtrad

character traits

Helen Shiner

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peer agreement (net): +1

personality traits

Explanation:
See, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait_theory

http://psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_big_five_pers...

savtrad
France
Local time: 17:39
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10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

character traits

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:39
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PRO pts in category: 15

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9 hrs confidence:

character traits

Explanation:
Because my previous answer was hidden.

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Along, it seems, with the agrees from several of my peers.

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Thanks, Chris and Charlie.

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:39
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