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===Personality versus social factors=== {{more citations needed|date=March 2015}} In the 1960s and 1970s some psychologists dismissed the whole idea of personality, considering much behaviour to be context-specific.<ref name="Doll1953">{{cite book |last=Doll |first=Edgar Arnold |url=https://archive.org/details/measurementofsoc00doll |title=The measurement of social competence: a manual for the Vineland social maturity scale |publisher=Educational Test Bureau, Educational Publishers |year=1953 |doi=10.1037/11349-000 |url-access=registration}} archived at [https://archive.org/details/measurementofsoc1953doll]</ref> This idea was supported by the fact that personality often does not predict behaviour in specific contexts. However, more extensive research has shown that when behaviour is aggregated across contexts, that personality can be a mostly good predictor of behaviour. Almost all psychologists now acknowledge that both social and individual difference factors (i.e., personality) influence behaviour. The debate is currently more around the relative importance of each of these factors and how these factors interact.
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