This volume celebrates the textbooks Personality: a psychological interpretation by Gordon W. Allport and Psychology of personality by Ross Stagner, both first published in 1937--Preface.
The 1937 Allport and Stagner texts in personality psychology / Kenneth H. Craik --;Fifty years of the psychology of personality : reminiscences / Ross Stagner --;Allport's Personality and Allport's personality / Alan C. Elms --;Allport and Murray on Allport's Personality : a confrontation in 1946-1947 / M. Brewster Smith --;Pattern and organization : current trends and prospects for the future / Lawrence A. Pervin --;The continuing relevance of personality theory / Salvatore R. Maddi --;It's time to put theories of personality in their place, or, Allport and Stagner got it right, why can't we? / Gerald A. Mendelsohn --;Science and the single case / Irving E. Alexander --;Describing lives : Gordon Allport and the "science" of personality / Bertrum J. Cohler --;Gordon Allport and "Letters from Jenny" / David G. Winter. Allport's personal documents : then and now / Lawrence S. Wrightsman --;Conceptions of self and identity : a modern retrospective on Allport's view / Roy F. Baumeister --;Current status of the motive concept / Robert A. Emmons --;The ability to judge others from their expressive behaviors / Bella M. DePaulo --;Judgments of personality and personality itself / David C. Funder --;Gordon Allport : father and critic of the five-factor model / Oliver P. John and Richard W. Robins --;To predict some of the people more of the time : individual traits and the prediction of behavior / Peter Borkenau --;The scientific credibility of commonsense psychology / Garth J.O. Fletcher --;A commonsense approach to personality measurement / Raymond N. Wolfe --;An optimistic forecast / Robert Hogan.
Assembling original papers by the field's foremost investigators, this history demonstrates the continuity and progress made across five decades of personality psychology research. In addition to providing a historical perspective for the discipline, the work aims to inspire a more coherent agenda for future research.
Allport, Gordon W. -- (Gordon Willard), -- 1897-1967. -- Personality.
Personality -- History.
Stagner, Ross, -- 1909-1997. -- Psychology of personality.
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edited by Kenneth H. Craik, Robert Hogan, and Raymond N. Wolfe.