PSYC 2P37 Lecture Notes - Gordon Allport

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Knowing a little more about the history of the concept will allow you to see it today a little different. For the longest time, the writings of gordon allport, there was a strong intuition that traits exist, there were broad pervasive consistencies in the behaviour of people that we all have, naturally. What we need are new studies where behaviour is reliably measured if your going to demonstrate validity. Ina series of studies, epstein took measurements of peoples behaviours not only once but many (not punctuality of one class, but 10 classes) and averages it together=aggregating. Epstein showed in a large series of studies that when you average peoples behaviours, you get cross situational consistency that averages above the . 3 ceiling, far more impressive consistencies. This was the beginning, evidence that people are consistent across situations but you need to look at them in many situations, standing view in the 1980s.

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