 Back to psychology for a moment. As time went on, the situationist movement ended up not ushering in the downfall of the study of personality. In fact, global character traits have come to dominate the field of personality psychology. The primary reason for this has been the emergence of the Big Five or Five-Factor model. Today the Big Five personality traits are all the rage, with thousands of papers appearing in journals in recent years. Now one sees the study of global personality traits described in terms of a “renaissance” with “real progress toward consensus” after “decades of floundering” (McCrae and Costa 2003: 21, 20, 2008: 159).