This classic is one of the most cited and novel approaches to
psychology ever written. Hans Eysenck presents a descriptive and
causal model of human personality in accord with the major concepts
of experimental psychology and the physiological and neurological
mechanisms that form the biological basis of behavior patterns. His
proposal for an alliance between personality and physiology
represented a major innovation in the field of psychology,
distinguished his research from his contemporaries, and set the
stage for a wealth of research to come.
Before this foundational work, Eysenck had initially constructed
a model of personality in such works as Dimensions of Personality
and The Experimental Study of Personality, but these were primarily
descriptive in nature. A second phase of research included his
Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria and Experiments with Drugs, where
he provided causal analysis by reference to concepts then current
in experimental psychology. The Biological Basis of Personality
represents Eysenck's third phase, when he dug deeper to find
biological causes underlying the psychological concepts of emotion,
excitation, and inhibition--which had formed the building blocks of
his earlier efforts. In this work, the causal links he postulates
between personality variables and neurological and physiological
discoveries establish a realistic model that takes theory out of
the field of mere speculation.
As Sybil Eysenck makes clear in her new preface, this book paved
the way for a "marriage" of the experimental and individual
difference approach in personality psychology.
As Sybil Eysenck makes clear in her new preface, this book paved
the way for a "marriage" of the experimental and individual
difference approach in personality psychology.
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