Personality Trait [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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====== Personality Trait ======

A personality [[trait]] is defined as something about a person that impacts how they tend to think, feel and behave on an ongoing basis. Personality traits are characteristic of enduring behavioral and emotional patterns, rather than isolated occurrences.
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[[Trait]]-based personality theories, such as those defined by Raymond Cattell define personality as the traits that predict a person's behavior. On the other hand, more behaviorally based approaches define personality through learning and habits. Nevertheless, most theories view personality as relatively stable.
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The belief that certain personality traits could result in potentially dangerous [[outcome]]s was first recognized in aviation, as ‘‘Arrogance got more pilots in [[trouble]] than faulty [[equipment]]” 
((Yeager C, Janos L. Yeager. New York, NY, USA: Bantam; 1985)).
Furthermore, it was even suggested that over half of the aviation disasters were related to poor pilot decision-making
((Administration UDoT-FA. Advisory Circular: Aeronautical Decision Making.
Advisory Circular 60-22 Washington, DC, USA. 1991.)).
This has resulted in pilots being trained to use mitigation techniques for specific attitudes, such as [[machismo]], [[impulsiveness]], [[anxiety]], [[antiauthority]], [[resignation]], and [[invulnerability]], to avoid [[disaster]]s.
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Similar to pilots, surgeons are highly trained and face challenging, real-time [[decision]]s every day, predisposing them to exhibit certain [[personality]] traits more frequently than someone in the general population
((] Fiorillo CD, Tobler PN, Schultz W. Discrete coding of reward probability and
uncertainty by dopamine neurons. Science 2003;299:1898–902.))
((Urban R. Comparative analysis of social, demographic, and flight-related
attributes between accident and nonaccident general aviation pilots. Aviat
Space Environ Med 1984;55:308–12.)).

===== Greed personality trait =====
[[Greed personality trait]]