A Source of Evidence That Supports That Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Personality

question 14

Multiple Choice

A source of evidence that supports that cross-cultural comparisons of personality are meaningful is:

• A)Findings derived from many cross-cultural comparisons of personality are interpretable to a large degree and match predictions based on what we might reasonably expect based on our knowledge of culture and its probable influence on personality.
• B)Cross-cultural researchers have taken steps to assure some degree of psychometric equivalence across cultures in their measures of personality.
• C)Findings that show that personality has a somewhat direct relationship to genes.
• D)All of the above

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