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Article Evaluation
Religion and personality

The article's introduction repeats itself unnecessarily with regards to linking personality with religiosity; it mentions empirical personality measures multiple times but does not say what they are or give an example. It also states that linking personality with religion can provide insight into "how and why religion is such an important element of being human." Many people around the world would disagree that religion is an important part of being human, so with the way it's written it's possible this could be seen as biased towards religion. The article has a citation for this sentence but the link does not take you to the proper article, making it difficult to to say one way or another if it is biased.

The body of the article could be divided into sections better. The section on the five factor model and religion mostly makes reference to Eysenck's P-E-N model and describes how Eysenck's model correlates with the big five traits rather than comparing religiosity and the five factor traits directly. The "strengths and weaknesses" subsections mostly just assess the validity of the given model in measuring personality but don't go into very much detail about why the particular model is good or bad at predicting religiosity; most of the information in these sections would be better suited for the main article on the given personality model. In addition the section on religious struggles and personality talks almost exclusively about the five factor model so it would probably be best to move the information to the subsection on the five factor model.

Overall the article has some good information but the writing style and format make it less than optimal to read through. I would recommend a complete reshuffling of the page with more information of how the specific personality traits (openness to experience, conscientiousness, etc, in the case of the big five model) of a particular model are related to religion. The article could use more information about other religions as it is currently heavily focused on Christianity/Abrahamic religions. I would also recommend a new introduction that is more concise and makes the purpose of the page more clear.