Then there was the connaturality factor: if her personality patterns were very like his own, they might need little decoding.

The first section of the book describes 14 different personality patterns.

The new manual also incorporates case histories into the description of personality patterns and symptoms.

This first dimension classifies personality patterns in two domains.

Then, through Vesta: Manarkans didn't have names, but were known by their personality patterns.

It was just a certain personality pattern that happened to fall into pleasing form to the greatest possible number of people.

They fell back on their third-level instructions, and alerted the principal personality pattern.

The trick isn't fool-proof because so many other factors are in play: your personality patterns, state of mind, so forth.

Adults usually show personality patterns over a long duration of time.

Several of us have had occasion to mindmeld with the Captain before; so we are quite familiar with his basic personality pattern.