The psychology of individual differences.
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This article is published in American Journal of Psychology.The article was published on 1928-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 60 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Differential psychology.read more
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"To Carve Nature at Its Joints": On the Existence of Discrete Classes in Personality
Steve Gangestad,Mark Snyder +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the existence of class variables in personality has been examined and the implications for conceptualizing and investigating the nature and origins of personality are discussed. But, as stated by the authors, "the arguments that generated it, and those that uphold it are applicable to class variables as they often have been explicated, in phenetic terms; by contrast, genetically explicated class variables are not vulnerable to these arguments."
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Scientific and Social Significance of Assessing Individual Differences: “Sinking Shafts at a Few Critical Points”
TL;DR: Traditional dimensions of human abilities, personality, and vocational interests play critical roles in structuring a variety of important behaviors and outcomes and the construct of general intelligence is featured, but attributes that routinely add incremental validity to cognitive assessments are also discussed.
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On the magnitude of laterality effects and sex differences in functional lateralities.
TL;DR: Results showed that laterality effects tend to be large and significant but that they are heterogeneous in the visual modality, and showed sex differences to be significant in two modalities (visual and auditory).
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Spatial ability and STEM: A sleeping giant for talent identification and development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the psychological significance of spatial ability and incorporate spatial ability in talent identification procedures for advanced learning opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.