The branch of psychology that studies the patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that make an individual unique, including the traits and processes that stay stable across situations and time.
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Central QuestionWhat makes individuals psychologically different from one another, and how stable are those differences across situations and time? 1 Key DebateThe person-situation debate, over whether behavior is driven mainly by stable internal traits or by the immediate situation; most personality psychologists now hold that traits predict behavior in aggregate while situational factors predict it in the short term. 1 Personality Psychology
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1. Wikipedia: Personality psychology
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examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces.
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Most modern theorists agree that both are important, with aggregate behavior being primarily determined by traits and situational factors being the primary predictor of behavior in the short term.
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The personality branch of psychology studies the patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make an individual unique.
Wikipedia: Walter Mischel
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an Austrian-born American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology
Wikipedia: Person-Situation Debate
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The person-situation debate in personality psychology refers to the controversy concerning whether the person or the situation is more influential in determining a person's behavior.
Wikipedia: Trait Theory
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In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality.
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In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality.
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Within the context of personality psychology, a "dimension" refers to a continuum on which an individual can have various levels of a characteristic, in contrast to the dichotomous categorical approach in which an individual does or does not possess a characteristic.
Wikipedia: Reversal theory
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Reversal theory is a phenomenological theory of personality, motivation, and emotion.
Egocentrism - Wikipedia
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Egocentrism is the tendency to view situations primarily from one's own perspective and to have difficulty understanding or considering the perspectives of others.
Wikipedia: Personal Construct Theory
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Within personality psychology, personal construct theory (PCT) or personal construct psychology (PCP) is a theory of personality and cognition developed by the American psychologist George Kelly in the 1950s.
Wikipedia: June Etta Downey
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This test was one of her biggest contributions to personality psychology and was one of the first personality inventories.
Alice Eagly (Wikipedia)
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Her primary research focus is social psychology, as well as personality psychology and Industrial Organizational Psychology.
Wikipedia: Saul Kassin
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From 1974 to 1978, he attended the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, where he received his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology and studied attribution theory with Charles A.
Tomkins Institute: Biography and Timeline
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In 1947 he began an eighteen-year tenure in Princeton University’s Department of Psychology, where his interest in the relation between emotion (which he came to call “affect”) and personality formation became the defining theme of his career.
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