I suspect there is a cognitive bias to treat negatively labeled personality traits as dichotomous categories in order to create a distance between self and other (e.g., “Oh *they* are such narcissists”). But positive traits are treated more continuous. Has anyone studied that?
The whole conceptual structure of 'clinical psych' (bad traits) versus 'personality psych' (neutral/good traits) suggests you're on to something with this.
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But what about all the “bad” non clinical individual diff measures in social psych? e.g., SDO, RWA, explicit racism. No one treats those as dichotomous.
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