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1 online resource (44 pages) : illustrations. |
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Doubleday papers in psychology ; DPP 11 |
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Psycbooks |
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Doubleday papers in psychology ; DPP 11.
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Psycbooks.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"It is not easy to introduce this paper, for one can't begin to do it justice in a short statement. A minimal clue is that it is a basic exposition of the application of the field-theoretical perspective to personality. It is the first such presentation since the late Kurt Lewin offered B = f(P, E), Behavior is a function of the Person and the Environment. But decades have intervened. The development of field theory has chiefly been in application to problems of group processes. Increasing numbers of psychologists have identified with the field-theoretical orientation, yet the development of its explicit application to the study of personality has up to the present not been made. The lack has now been supplied, the gap filled in. But let us pause a bit |
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Field theory applied to personality would be a dynamic theory, ahistorical, emphasizing analysis of each situation in terms of that situation with no necessary similarity to what preceded it or what followed it. How then can such a theory be offered under the title The Anatomy of Personality with the stable and static connotations of the phrase? It was the need to solve this paradox that impeded the development of the theory in the past. In the constantly changing materials, what are the stable components or relationships? That is the problem to which this paper is addressed. It is, of course, an incomplete answer, but it does carry us several steps forward. By reopening the question and offering us some guideposts, Professor Adams has performed a distinct service. It may be hoped that rapid advances will now be made to round out this aspect of our understanding"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Print version record. |
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Personality.
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Personality. (DNLM)D010551
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Personality. (OCoLC)fst01058667
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Adams, Donald Keith, 1902-1971. Anatomy of personality. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday and Co., 1954 (DLC) 54011809 (OCoLC)194083 |
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