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When discussing human personality through the psychodynamic approach, I described it as involving themes or zones of preoccupation. These themes can be considered as attractors. In this chapter, I describe the way we may identify attractors of personality.
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I’m grateful to my programmer, Yochai Cohen, for writing the code for this analysis.
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Neuman, Y. (2016). Attractors of Personality: A Murderer, a Terrorist and Some Angry Jews. In: Computational Personality Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42460-6_9
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