-people can described by how they behave-Allport believed that to understand healthy people, focus must be on their lives in present, not childhood experiences -believed study of personality should focus on healthy, well adjusted individuals - defining personality, believed that it should stress uniqueness of all individuals + capacity to adapt to environment -lexical approach: if a trait was important to individuals life, represented in natural language individuals use to talk about each other

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