{"id":9305,"date":"2019-05-22T16:17:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/trait\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:18","slug":"trait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/trait\/","title":{"rendered":"Trait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In biology, a particular character of a phenotype as opposed to a character mode. &nbsp;For example, in fruit flies, eye colour is a character mode, while a red eye colour is a trait. Traits can be auMethotosomal or sex-linked, and determined by a single locus or by polygenes. &nbsp;In psychology, the term is a theoretical concept used to denote enduring characteristics or qualities of an individual (e.g., aggressive, friendly), which has a role in accounting for that person\u201awas observed regularities in behavior relative to others, but not for the regularities themselves. &nbsp;In 1936,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/gordon-w-allport\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/psychology.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/gordon-w-allport?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gordon W. Allport<\/a>&nbsp;(1897-1967) and Henry S. Odbert (1909-1995) reported 4,505 trait names indicating psychological differences between individuals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"character\">Character<\/a>, <a href=\"five_factor_model\">Five factor model<\/a>, <a href=\"method_bias\">Method bias<\/a>, <a href=\"multitrait-multimethod_matrix\">Multitrait-multimethod matrix<\/a>, <a href=\"neuroticism\">Neuroticism<\/a>, <a href=\"personality\">Personality<\/a>, <a href=\"polygenic_mode_of_inheritance\">Polygenic mode of inheritance<\/a>, <a href=\"polygenes\">Polygenes<\/a>, <a href=\"quantitative_genetic_theory\">Quantitative genetic theory<\/a>, <a href=\"temperament\">Temperament<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In biology, a particular character of a phenotype as opposed to a character mode. &nbsp;For example, in fruit flies, eye colour is a character mode, while a red eye colour is a trait. Traits can be auMethotosomal or sex-linked, and determined by a single locus or by polygenes. &nbsp;In psychology, the term is a theoretical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/trait\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trait&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}