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Personality and Individual Differences - A Natural Science Approach (Paperback, 1985 ed.)
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Personality and Individual Differences - A Natural Science Approach (Paperback, 1985 ed.)
Series: Perspectives on Individual Differences
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This book presents an introduction to the study of personality and
indi vidual differences, but it is not a textbook in the usual
sense. As we shall point out in some detail later, typically
textbooks on personality and individual differences either deal
with statistical and psychometric prob lems, methodology, and the
technical issues of measurement, or else they present the different
theories of personality associated with various authors such as
Maslow, Cattell, Freud, Jung, Murray, Rogers, Rotter, or to
whomever the various eponymous chapters may be dedicated. The the
ories are presented, together with a brief mention of some
empirical studies, but the student is not enlightened as to the
weight to be given to the supporting evidence, nor is any
comparison attempted between the different theories, formulating
judgments regarding completeness, cri teria adopted, or validity in
terms of experimental proof. It is small wonder that philosophers
of science have concluded that the social sciences, unlike the
"hard" sciences, suffer from the lack of a paradigm (Kuhn, 1970);
this defect is more noticeable, perhaps, in the study of
personality and individual differences than in any other part of
psychology (except perhaps in clinical and abnormal psychology,
where an equal lack of consensus rules)."
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