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Jasnah is generally a stern and serious person, although she occasionally shows a wry sense of humor,{{book ref|sa1|29}} and allows familiarity among those she is close with.{{book ref|sa3|15}} She sometimes acts in a brusque manner, and can be exceptionally rude when someone gets on her bad side.{{book ref|sa1|33}} She is determined, confident, and often stubborn.{{book ref|sa1|8
She can be temperamental and prone to aggressive verbal outbursts when under stress, even when such a reaction isn't warranted or appropriate. When she calms down, and feels that her response was unwarranted, she feel guilty and apologize to the target of her outburst.{{book ref|sa1|8}} She recognizes this temper as one of her flaws.{{book ref|sa1|8}}
She has a brilliant mind and shows wisdom and care in her studies.{{book ref|sa1|3}} She is very passionate about scholarship and wants others to share in her passion as well.{{book ref|sa1|29}} She often encourages her ward, Shallan, to come up with answers on her own, rather than simply giving them to her.{{book ref|sa1|36}} She also deeply appreciates when people pursue knowledge out of desire to learn and expand their knowledge, rather than for any ulterior motive.{{book ref|sa1|8}} Furthermore, she respects and encourages persistence in others.{{book ref|sa1|8}} She considers history to be the most important literary sub art.
She is prejudiced against the visual arts, going so far as to call them frivolities, although having Shallan as her ward may have changed her opinions on the subject.{{book ref|sa1|5}}
She has also been shown to have some sort of aversion to darkness, or at the very least shadows, as seen when she became uneasy while staring at a shadow.{{book ref|sa2|prologue}} Jasnah seems to have faced some sort of trauma as a child; Dalinar mentions her "lunacy" in conversation with Gavilar and she has memories of being locked in a dark room when she was a child, which taught her that even the people she loved could hurt her.{{book ref|sa3|47}} No one else seems to remember it in the modern day, but Jasnah is terrified of it happening again to her.{{book ref|sa3|49}}
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