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Fifty Years of Personality Psychology

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Kenneth H. Craik

    1. Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Robert Hogan

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, USA

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  3. Raymond N. Wolfe

    1. Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Geneseo, USA

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Part of the book series: Perspectives on Individual Differences (PIDF)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fifty Years of Personality Psychology

  • Editors: Kenneth H. Craik, Robert Hogan, Raymond N. Wolfe

  • Series Title: Perspectives on Individual Differences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2311-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44291-9Published: 28 February 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2313-4Published: 31 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2311-0Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 314

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology

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