Fifty Years of Personality Psychology

1993
ISBN: 978-0-306-44291-9
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1440 g

Reihe: Perspectives on Individual Differences

Assembling original papers by the field's foremost investigators, this history demonstrates the continuity and progress made across five decades of personality psychology research. In addition to providing a historical perspective for the discipline, the work aims to inspire a more coherent agenda for future research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craik, Kenneth H.

Wolfe, Raymond N.

Hogan, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introduction.- 1 The 1937 Allport and Stagner Texts in Personality Psychology.- II. Historical and Personal Background of the 1937 Texts.- 2 Fifty Years of the Psychology of Personality: Reminiscences.- 3 Allport’s Personality and Allport’s Personality.- 4 Allport and Murray on Allport’s Personality: A Confrontation in 1946–1947.- III. Current State of Personality Psychology and Its Texts.- 5 Pattern and Organization: Current Trends and Prospects for the Future.- 6 The Continuing Relevance of Personality Theory.- 7 It’s Time to Put Theories of Personality in Their Place, or, Allport and Stagner Got It Right, Why Can’t We?.- IV. Present-Day Perspectives on Basic Issues.- 8 Science and the Single Case.- 9 Describing Lives: Gordon Allport and the “Science” of Personality.- 10 Gordon Allport and “Letters from Jenny”.- 11 Allport’s Personal Documents: Then and Now.- 12 Conceptions of Self and Identity: A Modern Retrospective on Allport’s View.- 13 Current Status of the Motive Concept.- 14 The Ability to Judge Others from Their Expressive Behaviors.- 15 Judgments of Personality and Personality Itself.- 16 Gordon Allport: Father and Critic of the Five-Factor Model.- 17 To Predict Some of the People More of the Time: Individual Traits and the Prediction of Behavior.- 18 The Scientific Credibility of Commonsense Psychology.- 19 A Commonsense Approach to Personality Measurement.- V. Epilogue.- 20 An Optimistic Forecast.- Author Index.