Which of the following is true about the trait approach to personality?
A. Trait researchers generally are not interested in understanding and predicting the behavior of a single individual.
B. It is not easy to make comparisons across people with the trait approach.
C. The trait approach has been responsible for generating a number of useful approaches to psychotherapy.
D. Trait theorists place a greater emphasis on discovering the mechanisms underlying behavior than do theorists from other approaches to personality.
A
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