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Dimensions of Personality (Hardcover)
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Dimensions of Personality (Hardcover)
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This is the original work on which Hans Eysenck's fifty years of
research have been built. It introduced many new ideas about the
nature and measurement of personality into the field, related
personality to abnormal psychology, and demonstrated the
possibility of testing personality theory experimentally. The book
is the result of a concentrated and cooperative effort to discover
the main dimensions of personality, and to define them
operationally, that is, by means of strictly experimental,
quantitative procedures. More than three dozen separate researches
were carried out on some 10,000 normal and neurotic subjects by a
research team of psychologists and psychiatrists. A special feature
of this work is the close collaboration between psychologists and
psychiatrists. Eysenck believes that the exploration of personality
would have reached an advanced state much earlier had such a
collaboration been the rule rather than the exception in studies of
this kind. Both disciplines benefit by working together on the many
problems they have in common. In his new introduction, Eysenck
discusses the difficulty he had in conveying this belief to
scientists from opposite ends of the psychology spectrum when he
first began work on this book. He goes on to explain the basis from
which Dimensions of Personality developed. Central to any concept
of personality, he states, must be hierarchies of traits organized
into a dimensional system. The two major dimensions he posited,
neuroticism and extraversion, were in disfavor with most scientists
of personality at the time. Now they form part of practically all
descriptions of personality. Dimensions of Personality is a
landmark study and should be read by both students and
professionals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and
sociology.
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