Thus, the empirical relationship between personality traits and demographic outcomes should be informative, both about the relative significance of consumption-based and production-based gains to marriage and about the economic interpretation of personality.
All authors present their own interpretations of the personalities and lives of their characters, whether they mean to or not, whether they write fiction or biography or philosophy (if the philosophy they write has characters), so other criteria must be introduced for deciding among the contending views of who Socrates really was.
Based on that list, a psychologist would offer a qualitative interpretation of their personality dynamics.
The two books diverge more seriously in their interpretation of the personality behind the science.
But still this overly-simplified interpretation of human personality endures, even in the Guardian Science section!
The four have arguably divergent interpretations of Moneypenny's personality, as do the six actors who have played Bond.
Sundman's interpretation of the personalities involved, the blind spots of the Swedish national culture, and the role of the press is reflected in the film adaptation, Flight of the Eagle (1982), based on his novel and directed by Jan Troell.
The usefulness and reliability of projective tests depend on a number of factors, including the extent to which identical personality interpretations can be reached by different evaluators using the same test data and the extent to which those interpretations are supported by assessments of personality from other sources (e.g., personality inventories and clinical observation).
Since we do not have pre-marriage measures of personality, a strong causal interpretation of these results would be inappropriate; if personality is somewhat malleable, then these associations may also reflect an adaptation to social roles.
