Lexical hypothesis
HYPOTHESIS IN PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY THAT PERSONALITY TRAITS IMPORTANT TO A GROUP BECOME A PART OF THAT GROUP’S LANGUAGE
Sedimentation hypothesis; Fundamental lexical hypothesis; Lexical Hypothesis; Psycholexical
The lexical hypothesis (also known as the fundamental lexical hypothesis, lexical approach, or sedimentation hypothesis) is a thesis, current primarily in early personality psychology, and subsequently subsumed by many later efforts in that subfield. Despite some variation in its definition and application, the hypothesis is generally defined by two postulates.