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modal personality  

Definition

  • Modal personality was the term used by anthropologist Cora DuBois in her 1944 monograph The Peoples of Alor: A Social-Psychological Study of an East Indian Island, based on research carried out in the Alor islands of Indonesia during the late 1930s. The Alor study focused on issues and methods involving both anthropology and psychology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Modal Personality]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DVRKCSTK-P

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