Inclusive behavior on a word-inclusion test differed significantly in psychiatric clinic outpatients between 17 males with passive personality profiles and 19 males with active personality profiles as gauged by the Millon-Illinois Self-report Inventory. When asked to select only those words absolutely necessary to a key word, actives chose significantly fewer words than passives.
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