The Cognitive Foundations of Personality Traits
Hardly anything in psychology is as irking as the trait concept. Psychologists and laypersons alike use primarily adjective trait-names to characterize and even concep tualize the individuals they encounter. There are more than a hundred well-defined per
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EMOTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Series Editors Carroll E. Izard, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware and Jerome L. Singer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Recent volumes in the series
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The Cognitive Foundations of Personality Traits
Shulamith Kreitler and Hans Kreitler Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kreider, Shulamith. The cognitive foundations of personality traits I Shulamith Kreider and Hans Kreider. p. em.- (Emotions, personality, and psychotherapy) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4899-2229-8 ISBN 978-1-4899-2227-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-2227-4
1. Personality and cognition. I. Kreider, Hans. II. Title. III. Series. BF698.9.C63K74 1989 155.2'3-dc20
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Preface
Hardly anything in psychology is as irking as the trait concept. Psychologists and laypersons alike use primarily adjective trait-names to characterize and even conceptualize the individuals they encounter. There are more than a hundred well-defined personality traits and a great many questionnaires for their assessment, some of which are designed to assess the same or very similar traits. Little is known about their ontogenetic development and even less about their underlying dy
