PSYC2014 Chapter WEEK 18 - 22:
27 Dec 2018
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The same person acts very differently on different occasions, and this simple fact has been one of the greatest challenges for personality psychologists to incorporate into the concept of personality. Initial empirical confirmations of this variability created strong reactions among psychologists, leading may to conclude that traits do not exist, people do not differ from each other, and there is no need for the study of personality. The purpose of this article is to organize and interpret the implications of such within- person variability for the study of personality. The challenge of within-person variability and the person-situation debate. Person argument: because behaviour is determined in large part by a person"s traits, a given individual will act similarly much of the time, except for some reasonable adaptation to changing circumstances. Such stability of behavior makes it easy and useful to describe a person in terms of general traits.
