As a result, online daters are more likely to focus on less-relevant factors, such as appearance and personality type.

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In order to do justice to a man as respected as Ferguson, Jackson built up an in-depth knowledge of his personality and appearance during several meetings.

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Players invent their own simulated characters (hence, "sims")--choosing gender, personality, physical appearance, job, house, car, appliances and so forth--that live in a neighborhood with other sims and interact with them.

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She was forced to miss some engagements, but made her first public appearance after the spell in hospital at the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year event.

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The early appearance of the ability to delay suggests that it has a genetic origin, an example of personality at its most predetermined.

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