More controversially, they assume that complex behaviours (being "hardworking", inventiveness) are heritable, and that differences between "racial groups" extend to genetically determined personality and intellectual traits.
Turner and the multitude of later historians who were influenced by him saw the frontier as having had a defining influence in creating certain American intellectual traits.
We're talking about society's most inventive thinkers, its visionaries, its sages, its masterminds: the more you think about the special intellectual traits needed to breach the limits of human understanding, the more preposterous it is to think those people would care whether they had £1m or £100m.
However, as was noted by Settle (1971), it is the rationality and critical attitude built into institutions, rather than the personal intellectual traits of individuals, that distinguishes science from non-scientific practices such as magic.
We have gone so far in de-emphasizing our intellectual traits in mating and dating that we actually cut our heads off in order to attract a mate.
Călinescu viewed such intellectual traits as shared by Creangă with his Wallachian counterpart Anton Pann, in turn linking both writers to the satirical component of Renaissance literature, and specifically to François Rabelais.
Not surprisingly, all three sources of personal stress (health, weight and schoolwork), which relate to physical or intellectual traits, were associated with depression symptoms.
Analysis of personality variables revealed instructors who had more "extravert," "agreeable," or "intellectual" traits had lower participant attendance (p <.05), whereas those with "conscientious" traits had higher class attendance (p <.05).
