PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Personality Psychology, Scientific Method, Jon Runyan
4 Dec 2012
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Where"s the person in personality research? (carlson, 1984) Journal of personality and social psychology (1982), section 3(personality processes and. Table 3: non-college students, biographical data, exp. Treatment relevant: over 2 months, analysis at person level. Percentage of how many of the papers she analyzed included the above. Table 4 information: 44, 11, 13% Personality is not personality variables" and individual differences. Need to reflect development and dynamic organization of personality. Need to look at real people in real situations in real time. If you take someone out of context and treat them as variables and not real people and do not follow them over long periods of time to watch their development you are omitting a large part of personality. Problem: pressures for productivity and clean methodology. Idea that you need to publish a lot of papers to get promotions for academics.
