Evidence for an aggressive (and delinquent) personality.

@article{Rushton1987EvidenceFA,
  title={Evidence for an aggressive (and delinquent) personality.},
  author={J. P. Rushton and Stephen Erdle},
  journal={The British journal of social psychology},
  year={1987},
  volume={26 ( Pt 1)},
  pages={
          87-9
        }
}
An aggressive (and delinquent) personality can be shown to exist when observations are made across a large enough sampling of exemplars. Arguments against the existence of such a personality are based on a failure to use sufficiently aggregated measures. Numerous estimates are preferable in order to average out idiosyncratic variance thereby leaving a clearer view of underlying dimensions of behaviour. We illustrate the usefulness of this principle and suggest that consistent patterns of… 
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