Personality and Individual Differences: A Natural Science Approach

Voorkant
Springer US, 28 feb 1985 - 452 pagina's
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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Over de auteur (1985)

Hans "J. Eysenck "(1916-1997) was professor of psychology at the University of London and the director of its psychological department at the Institute of Psychiatry. He was best known for his experimental research in the field of personality. Among his many books are Rebel with a Cause, Dimensions of Personality, The Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria, Intelligence, and Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire.

Michael W. Eysenck is Professor and Head of Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, and formerly Reader in Psychology, Birbeck College, London.

Andrew Ellis is Professor and Head of Department of Psychology, University of York.

Earl Hunt is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington.

Philip Johnson-Laird is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University.

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