Lexical hypothesis
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In personality psychology, the lexical hypothesis[1] (also known as the fundamental lexical hypothesis,[2] lexical approach,[3] or sedimentation hypothesis[4]) generally includes two postulates:
1. Those personality characteristics that are important to a group of people will eventually become a part of that group's language.[5]
and that therefore:
2. More important personality characteristics are more likely to be encoded into language as a single word.[6][7] [8]
With origins during the late 19th century, use of the lexical hypothesis began to flourish in English and German psychology during the early 20th century.[4] The lexical hypothesis is a major basis of the study of the Big Five personality traits,[9] the HEXACO model of personality structure[10] and the 16PF Questionnaire and has been used to study the structure of personality traits in a number of cultural and linguistic settings.[11]