Kenneth H. Craik

TL;DR: The act frequency approach to personality is advanced in this article, where dispositions are viewed as summaries of act frequencies that, in themselves, possess no explanatory status, and a series of studies focusing on indices of act trends and on a comparative analysis of the internal structure of dispositions illustrates this basic formulation.

TL;DR: In this article, a group of participants interacted in a group-discussion task and then reported their act frequencies, which were later coded by observers from videotapes, for each act, observer-observer agreement, self-observability and self-enhancement bias were examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the frequency concept of disposition, which entails categories of acts that are topographically dissimilar but nonetheless considered to be manifestations of a common disposition, and find that a multipleact criterion based on prototypically dominant acts is predicted by personality scales with significantly greater success than are multiple-act criteria based on more peripheral acts within the dominance domain.

TL;DR: It is concluded that psychologists should evaluate trends in the field empirically, not intuitively, and that neuroscience has seen only a modest increase in prominence in mainstream psychology, despite evidence for its conspicuous growth in general.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of studies explores the act frequency analysis of personal dispositions, which entails the identification of categories of prototypical acts, delineation of internal structuring within act categories (from central to peripheral), and the assessment of individuals' dispositions in terms of the relative frequency of performing prototypical act over a period of observation.