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Personality: an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Personality: what it is and how it is measured. Most personality psychologists focus on specific, psychologically meaningful individual differences. Explanations of personality differences: 1) prior events that can shape an individual"s personality, 2) anticipated events that might motivate the person to reveal particular personality characteristics. The consideration of anticipated events emphasizes the person"s own perspective and often seems intimate and personal in its reflection of the person"s inner life hopes, fears, and aspirations. Personality psychologists study questions of how our personalities are determined by the forces in our minds and in our personal history of heredity and environment. Self report: a series of answers to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behaviour or mental state. Scales based on the content of self-reports have been devised to assess a whole range of personality characteristics.