Fifty Years of Personality Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The 1937 Allport and Stagner Texts in Personality Psychology

      • Kenneth H. Craik

      Pages 3-20

3. Historical and Personal Background of the 1937 Texts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Fifty Years of the Psychology of Personality

      • Ross Stagner

      Pages 23-38

   3. Allport’s Personality and Allport’s Personality

      • Alan C. Elms

      Pages 39-55

   4. Allport and Murray on Allport’s Personality

      • M. Brewster Smith

      Pages 57-65

4. Current State of Personality Psychology and Its Texts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Pattern and Organization

      • Lawrence A. Pervin

      Pages 69-84

   3. The Continuing Relevance of Personality Theory

      • Salvatore R. Maddi

      Pages 85-101

   4. It’s Time to Put Theories of Personality in Their Place, or, Allport and Stagner Got It Right, Why Can’t We?

      • Gerald A. Mendelsohn

      Pages 103-115

5. Present-Day Perspectives on Basic Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Science and the Single Case

      • Irving E. Alexander

      Pages 119-129

   3. Describing Lives

      • Bertram J. Cohler

      Pages 131-146

   4. Gordon Allport and “Letters from Jenny”

      • David G. Winter

      Pages 147-163

   5. Allport’s Personal Documents

      • Lawrence S. Wrightsman

      Pages 165-175

   6. Conceptions of Self and Identity

      • Roy F. Baumeister

      Pages 177-186

   7. Current Status of the Motive Concept

      • Robert A. Emmons

      Pages 187-196

   8. The Ability to Judge Others from Their Expressive Behaviors

      • Bella M. DePaulo

      Pages 197-206

   9. Judgments of Personality and Personality Itself

      • David C. Funder

      Pages 207-214

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.

• Motive
• personality
• personality psychology
• psychology

• Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Kenneth H. Craik

• Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, USA

  Robert Hogan

• Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Geneseo, USA

  Raymond N. Wolfe

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