Psychometrics vs neurochemistry: A controversy around mobility-like scales of temperament

There is a disagreement between the factor-analytic (FA) approach in differential psychology and findings in neuroscience in identifying mobility-like temperament traits (i.e. speed of integration of actions that include plasticity, tempo, impulsivity). Due to their entanglement with “energetic” traits, mobility-like traits never emerge as independent dimensions in FA models of temperament and personality. This paper points out that there are, …