Campaigners are targeting what many say is an increasingly common practice - deploying the language of clinical diagnosis to describe everyday personality traits.

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For example, one study by Westby and Dawson found that when teachers were asked to describe their favorite students, the personality traits cited correlated negatively with personality traits associated with creative students, such as being impulsive, emotional, individualistic, and having a preference to be alone when creating something new.

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Just as important, the different humans who knew a particular animal agreed about its personality to a degree similar to that found when several people describe a human friend they have in common.

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We asked him to describe in three words what it felt like when he won the Young Sports Personality of the Year award.

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