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Personality and Assessment (Paperback, New Ed)
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Personality and Assessment (Paperback, New Ed)
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After many "out-of-print" years, this volume has been reissued in
response to an increasing demand for copies. This reflects that the
fundamental questions that motivated this book thirty years ago are
still being asked. But more important, the answers -- or at least
their outlines -- now seem to be in sight. In 1968, this book stood
as an expression of a paradigm crisis in its critique of the state
of personality psychology. The last three decades have been filled
with controversy and debate about the dilemmas raised here, and
then with renewal and fresh discoveries. It therefore seems
especially timely to revisit the pages which posed the challenges.
Mischel outlined the need to encompass the situation in the study
of personality, but with a focus on the acquired meaning of stimuli
and on the situation as perceived, viewing the individual as a
cognitive-affective being who construes, interprets, and transforms
the stimulus in a dynamic reciprocal interaction with the social
world. He focused on the idiographic analysis of personality that
had originally motivated the field, and the complexity,
discriminative facility, and uniqueness of the individual, and
sought to connect the expressions of personality to the
individual's behavior -- that is, to what people do and not just
what they say. Even the intrinsically contextualized "if...then..."
expressions of the personality system -- its essential behavioral
signatures -- were foreshadowed in this book that fired the opening
salvo in a search for "a truly dynamic personality psychology."
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