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Participants also completed a measure of borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality pathology. Participants’ behavior was assessed for pathology-relevant behavioral styles using several methods, including two theoretical (lay-expert generated pathology-relevant profiles and interpersonal circumplex based composites) and two empirical (exploratory correlation and factor analysis based composites). The coherence and pathology-relevance of behavioral descriptions produced by each method is examined. Results did not reveal a borderline-relevant behavioral style, but histrionic- and narcissistic-relevant behavioral styles did emerge which were common across the various methods of describing behavior. 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