Personality traits: fact or fiction? A critique of the Shweder and D'Andrade systematic distortion hypothesis.

@article{Romer1984PersonalityTF,
  title={Personality traits: fact or fiction? A critique of the Shweder and D'Andrade systematic distortion hypothesis.},
  author={Daniel Romer and William Revelle},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={1984},
  volume={47 5},
  pages={
          1028-42
        }
}
According to Shweder and D'Andrade (1979, 1980), covariation in memory-based ratings of people's behavior is determined more by semantic relations between behavior categories than by actual co-occurrence. They claim therefore that the existence of personality traits is largely a fiction supported by our conceptions rather than by reality. Contrary to this hypothesis, we argue that semantics are logically implicated in both the observation and recall of behavior and that support for this… 
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