Personality Psychology Recent Trends and Emerging Directions
Research in the field of personality psychology has culminated in a radical departure. The result is Personality Psychology: Recent Trends and Emerging Directions. Drs. Buss and Cantor have compiled the innovative research of twenty-five young, outstandin
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David M. Buss Nancy Cantor Editors
Personality Psychology Recent Trends and Emerging Directions With 15 Illustrations
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David M. Buss Nancy Cantor Department of Psychology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Personality psychology: recent trends and emerging directions/ editors, David M. Buss, Nancy Cantor. p. cm. Papers from a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 15-17, 1998. Includes bibliographies. ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-0636-8 1. Personality-Congresses. 1. Buss, David M. II. Cantor, Nancy. [DNLM: 1. Personality-congresses. 2. Personality AssessmentBF 698 trends-congresses. 3. Psychological Theory-congresses. P4679 1988] BF698.P3713 1989 155.2-dc20 DNLM/DLC 89-6442 Printed on acid-free paper. © 1989 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
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DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4684-0634-4
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Preface Scientific disciplines sometimes reach critical junctures in their development-points of departure that can radically alter their subsequent course. We believe that the field of personality psychology has reached such a juncture. In the 1930s, the seminal books by Allport (1937) and Murray (1938) set an agenda for decades to come. The 1940s and 1950s were marked by talented researchers carrying out that broad agenda. The study of personality flourished, and a basic textbook by Hall and Lindzey (1957) established personality psychology as an essential part of psychology's curriculum. During the 1960s, however, fundamental assumptions of the field were questioned, and limitations in predictability from trait measures were noted. The decade ofthe 1970s and the early years ofthe 1980s were marked by internal debate consisting of defenses of the basic paradigm, further attacks, and yet more defenses. During the 1980s, however, the intense internal debate waned, and new approaches to substantive issues in the field began to emerge: new middle-level units of analysis were advanced; new forms of personality coherence were proposed; advances in assessment yielded more powerful
