Fifty Years of Personality Psychology

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The 1937 Allport and Stagner Texts in Personality Psychology....Pages 3-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Fifty Years of the Psychology of Personality....Pages 23-38
Allport’s Personality and Allport’s Personality....Pages 39-55
Allport and Murray on Allport’s Personality ....Pages 57-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Pattern and Organization....Pages 69-84
The Continuing Relevance of Personality Theory....Pages 85-101
It’s Time to Put Theories of Personality in Their Place, or, Allport and Stagner Got It Right, Why Can’t We?....Pages 103-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Science and the Single Case....Pages 119-129
Describing Lives....Pages 131-146
Gordon Allport and “Letters from Jenny”....Pages 147-163
Allport’s Personal Documents....Pages 165-175
Conceptions of Self and Identity....Pages 177-186
Current Status of the Motive Concept....Pages 187-196
The Ability to Judge Others from Their Expressive Behaviors....Pages 197-206
Judgments of Personality and Personality Itself....Pages 207-214
Gordon Allport....Pages 215-236
To Predict Some of the People More of the Time....Pages 237-249
The Scientific Credibility of Commonsense Psychology....Pages 251-268
A Commonsense Approach to Personality Measurement....Pages 269-290
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
An Optimistic Forecast....Pages 293-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-313