After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• Identify the main principles and historical contexts of the trait tradition
   
• Discuss Allport's four columns, Cattell's 16PF, and Eysenck's E and N
   
• Explain the Big Five approach to personality
   
• Discuss personality from religious and cross-cultural perspectives
   
• Identify ways to apply the key principles of the trait tradition to individual experience and behavior