Answer:
<em>C. Appear to be stable over time.</em>
Explanation:
The reasoning behind this is that in childhood, personality traits seem to be a bit of a difficulty to figure out or keep or accept or deny. It is as if it is a psychological roller coaster. Thus, b being incorrect.
Not all personality traits are stable across situations, especially those with emotional personality traits. The victim could be in a somewhat difficult situation such as being bullied, losing their job, getting into a car accident, and more. In my POV, there is no such thing as stabilization in any types of situations.
Personality traits are definitely useful for predictors of mortality, divorce, occupational attainment, etc... Say your husband has a somewhat egotistical trait and tends to blame his problems on you. This would create problems, yes? Of course it would. In the worst possible scenario these bad traits could end up getting someone killed.
The whole meaning of being social is expressing what YOU like, what YOU enjoy, finding other people who like and enjoy the same things. That is how you communicate.
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