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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2008 Feb 1;17(1):31–35. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00543.x

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Change in personality traits over time for six trait domains. These graphs were created by adding average amounts of standardized mean-level change from separate decades of the life course together, under the assumption that personality-trait change may be cumulative. Extraversion is broken into its constituent subdomains of social vitality and social dominance.