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Fifty Years of Personality Psychology PERSPECTIVES ON INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES CECIL R. REYNOLDS, Thxas A&M University, College Station ROBERT T. BROWN, University of Nurth Carolina, Wilmington Current volumes in the series EXPLORATIONS IN TEMPERAMENT International Perspectives on Theory and Measurement Edited by Jan Strelau and Alois Angleitner FIFTY YEARS OF PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY Edited by Kenneth H. Craik, Robert Hogan, and Raymond N. Wolfe HANDBOOK OF CREATIVITY Assessment, Research, and Theory Edited by John A. Glover, Royce R. Ronning, and Cecil R. Reynolds HANDBOOK OF MULTIVARIATE EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, Second Edition Edited by John R. Nesselroade and Raymond B. Cattell HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Edited by John A. Glover and Royce R. Ronning INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE TO STRESS Edited by J. Rick 'fumer, Andrew Sherwood and Kathleen C. Light LEARNING STRATEGIES AND LEARNING STYLES Edited by Ronald R. Schmeck THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES A Developmental Perspective Edited by Lawrence C. Hartlage and Cathy F. Telzrow PERSONALITY, SOCIAL SKILLS, AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY An Individual Differences Approach Edited ~y David G. Gilbert and James J. Connolly SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS Sense and Nonsense, in Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment Leighton C. Whitaker THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF BEHAVIOR THERAPY Edited by Hans J. Eysenck and Irene Martin A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. Fifty Years of Personality Psychology Edited by Kenneth H. Craik University of California Berkeley, California Robert Hogan University of Tulsa Tulsa, Oklahoma and Raymond N. Wolfe State University of New York Geneseo, New York SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC Llbrary of Congress Cataloglng-ln-Publlcatlon Data Flfty years of personallty psychology / edlted by Kenneth H. Cralk, Robert Hogan, and Ray.ond N. Holfe. p. c •. -- (Perspectlves an IndIvIdual dlfferences) A co.paratlve analysls of the 1937 textbooks Personallty by Gordon H. Allport and Psychology of personallty by Ross Stagner. Includes blbllographlcal references and Index. ISBN 978-1-4899-2313-4 ISBN 978-1-4899-2311-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-2311-0 1. Personallty--Hlstory. 2. Allport, Gordon H. (Gordon Hl11ard), 1897-1967. Personal1ty. 3. Stagner, Ross, 1909- Psychology of personal1ty. 1. Cralk, Kenneth H. II. Hogan, Robert, 1937- III. Holfe, Ray.ond N. IV. Allport, Gardon H. (Gordon Hl11ard), 1897-1967. Personal1ty. V. V. Stagner, Ross, 1909- Psychology of personal1ty. VI. Serles. [DNLM: 1. AII port, Gordon H. (Gordon Hl11ard), 1897-1967. 2. Stagner, Ross, 1909- 3. Personal1ty--congresses. 4. Personal1ty Assess.ent--congresses. 5. Psycholog1cal Theory- -congresses. BF 698 F4691 BF698.F525 1993 155.2'09'04--dc20 DNLM/DLC for Llbrary of Congress 92-48903 CIP ISBN 978-1-4899-2313-4 10 1993 Springer Science+Business Media New York Origina11y published by Plenum Press, New York in 1993 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover lst edition 1993 All rights reserved N o part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher To GoRDON W. ALLPORT AND Ross STAGNER in celebration of their contributions to personality psychology Contributors Irving E. Alexander, Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706 Roy F. Baumeister, Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Peter Borkenau, Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, N-4800 Bielefeld 1, Germany Bertram J. Cobler, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 Kenneth H. Craik, Institute of Personality and Social Research, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Bella M. DePaulo, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Alan C. Elms, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California 95616 Robert A. Emmons, Department of Psychology, U Diversity of Cali- fornia, Davis, California 95616 Garth J. 0. Fletcher, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 1, New Zealand David C. Funder, Department of Psychology, University of Califor- nia, Riverside, California 92521 Robert Hogan, Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104 vii viii CONTRIBUTORS Oliver P. John, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Salvatore R. Maddi, School of Social Ecology, University of Cali- fornia, Irvine, California 92717 Gerald A. Mendelsohn, Institute of Personality and Social Research, Berkeley, California 94720 Lawrence A. Pervin, Department of Psychology, Rutgers Univer- sity, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 Richard W. Robins, Department of Psychology, University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, California 94720 M. Brewster Smith, Board of Studies in Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064 Ross Stagner, Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202 David G. Winter, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Raymond N. Wolfe, Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Geneseo, New York, 14454 Lawrence S. Wrightsman, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 Preface This volume celebrates the textbooks Personality: A Psychological In- terpretation by Gordon W. Allport and Psychology of Personality by Ross Stagner, both first published in 1937. In 1987, several occasions were held to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the two volumes and to acknowledge their role in defining and establishing the identity of personality psychology as a distinctive field of scientific in- quiry within the United States. At any given time, the textbooks of a science offer revealing infor- mation about its intellectual structure and research program. Even more so, its ''founding'' textbooks provide a temporal anchor for gain- ing a historical perspective on the field and a source of insights con- cerning its subsequent development and current situation. In spring 1987, at the University of California's Institute of Per- sonality Assessment and Research (IPAR) (now the Institute of Person- ality and Social Research) in Berkeley, Ross Stagner was invited to offer his personal perspective on these two textbooks and the sub- sequent development of personality psychology. In addition, a special symposium was devoted to an appreciation of the life and works of Gordon W. Allport. In a third series of talks, invited speakers offered commentaries on issues that were central to personality psychology in 1937 and that continue to warrant our attention today. A£, part of its annual meetings in August 1987, the American Psychological Association's Division of Personality and Social Psychology held a spe- cial marathon four-hour symposium that was an expanded version of !PAR's celebrations. In this volume, we offer highlights of these occasions as well as additional contributions developed especially for this publication. The ix X PREFACE book is organized into four sections. First, the introductory chapter presents a comparative analysis of the 1937 textbooks by Allport and Stagner and then uses this context to describe the origins and concep- tualization of our volume and to give a detailed account of its organiza- tion and contents. The second section of the volume includes three chapters dealing with the historical and personal background of the two textbooks. The third section groups three chapters concerning the cur- rent state of personality psychology and its contemporary textbooks. In the fourth section, we devote twelve chapters to gaining a present-day perspective on such abiding issues in personality psychology as the individual and the single case, motives and the self, judging persons, and personality assessment and prediction. Finally, the epilogue offers an optimistic view of the future of our field. This volume has three aims. First, we see it as a contribution to our ongoing task of gaining a historical perspective on the development of personality psychology as a scientific endeavor. Beyond its intellec- tual importance, such collective remembering holds the promise of serving valuable social functions for a community of researchers. For example, narrative accounts of a community's origins can generate vivid reminders of its members' shared aspirations. Second, we hope that the volume will bring about more explicit and concerted discussion of the possible forms and substance of contemporary textbooks in per- sonality psychology. Many pertinent issues have been raised in rather fragmented fashion over the years in textbook reviews published in Contemporary Psychology and elsewhere. This volume constitutes a beginning forum for reflecting on and joining opposing views on these matters. The third aim of the volume is to employ a historical vantage point as one means of gaining a comprehensive overview of our current research agenda in personality psychology. Has a particular research topic now perceived as "trendy'' in fact been an enduring concern of our field from the outset? Have some topics and methods fallen by the wayside that should not have been abandoned after all? The compara- tive analysis of textbooks over time can afford us a broad picture of such continuities and discontinuities in our field's research directions. Given these purposes, we have been remarkably fortunate in gain- ing the cooperation of an array of contributors who are authorities in the fields of their individual assignments. We greatly appreciate their willingness to take time away from their own research programs to aid in this effort at historical perspective taking. The logistics of assem- bling papers delivered at several different gatherings and arranging for additional new works for the volume have combined with our own geo- graphical separation to cause some delays in publication. At times we

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