Fifty Years of Personality Psychology
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.Pt. I. Introduction. Ch. 1. The 1937 Allport and Stagner Texts in Personality Psychology / Kenneth H. Craik -- Pt. II. Historical and Personal Background of the 1937 Texts. Ch. 2. Fifty Years of the Psychology of Personality: Reminiscences / Ross Stagner. Ch. 3. Allport's Personality and Allport's Personality / Alan C. Elms. Ch. 4. Allport and Murray on Allport's Personality: A Confrontation in 1946-1947 / M. Brewster Smith -- Pt. III. Current State of Personality Psychology and Its Texts. Ch. 5. Pattern and Organization: Current Trends and Prospects for the Future / Lawrence A. Pervin. Ch. 6. The Continuing Relevance of Personality Theory / Salvatore R. Maddi. Ch. 7. 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 -- Pt. IV. Present-Day Perspectives on Basic Issues. Ch. 8. Science and the Single Case / Irving E. Alexander. Ch. 9. Describing Lives: Gordon Allport and the "Science" of Personality / Bertram J. CohlerCh. 10. Gordon Allport and "Letters from Jenny" / David G. Winter. Ch. 11. Allport's Personal Documents: Then and Now / Lawrence S. Wrightsman. Ch. 12. Conceptions of Self and Identity: A Modern Retrospective on Allport's view / Roy F. Baumeister. Ch. 13. Current Status of the Motive Concept / Robert A. Emmons. Ch. 14. The Ability to Judge Others from Their Expressive Behaviors / Bella M. DePaulo. Ch. 15. Judgments of Personality and Personality Itself / David C. Funder. Ch. 16. Gordon Allport: Father and Critic of the Five-Factor Model / Oliver P. John and Richard W. Robins. Ch. 17. To Predict Some of the People More of the Time: Individual Traits and the Prediction of Behavior / Peter Borkenau. Ch. 18. The Scientific Credibility of Commonsense Psychology / Garth J. O. Fletcher. Ch. 19. A Commonsense Approach to Personality Measurement / Raymond N. Wolfe -- Pt. V. Epilogue. Ch. 20. An Optimistic Forecast / Robert Hogan
