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A Guided Science: History of Psychology in the Mirror of Its Making
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Personality Psychology: Lexical Approaches, Assessment Methods, and Trait Concepts Reveal Only Half of the Story—Why it is Time for a Paradigm Shift
TL;DR: A comprehensive philosophy-of-science for personality psychology is developed that goes far beyond the scope of the lexical approaches, assessment methods, and trait concepts that currently prevail and seriously challenge the widespread assumptions about the causal and universal status of the phenomena described by prominent personality models.
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Conceiving “personality”: Psychologist’s challenges and basic fundamentals of the Transdisciplinary Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals
Jana Uher,Jana Uher +1 more
TL;DR: The article derives special implications for exploring individuals’ “personality”, which the TPS-Paradigm conceives of as individual-specificity in all of the various kinds of phenomena studied in individuals.
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From observations of individual behaviour to social representations of personality: Developmental pathways, attribution biases, and limitations of questionnaire methods
TL;DR: Analyses of reliability, cross-method coherence, taxonomic structures, associations with demographic factors, and 12-month stabilities highlighted essential differences between individual-specific behaviours and pertinent representations, explored developmental pathways of representations, and illuminated attribution biases and limitations of questionnaire methods.
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Interpreting “Personality” Taxonomies: Why Previous Models Cannot Capture Individual-Specific Experiencing, Behaviour, Functioning and Development. Major Taxonomic Tasks Still Lay Ahead
Jana Uher,Jana Uher +1 more
TL;DR: This article explores challenges of establishing taxonomies that can comprehensively model individual-specificity in most of the kinds of phenomena explored as “personality” by applying the Transdisciplinary Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals (TPS-Paradigm) and by exploring taxonomic “ personality’ research as an example.