Personality Psychology

Groups the theories that explain individual differences in stable patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Belongs here: the Collective Unconscious, the Hierarchy of Needs, Loevinger's Stages of Ego Development, the Person-Situation Debate, Personal Construct Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Self-Determination Theory and Trait Theory. A stage theory centered on childhood development specifically, rather than adult individual differences, is filed under developmental psychology instead.