http://www.thishelps.net We collect for you... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:30:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en RESULTS Because this study consists of three separate parts and the anticipations for Part 2 and Part 3 depend on the results obtained in Part 1, the Results section necessarily will include some theoretical hypotheses. Part 1: Coherence, Replicability, and Psychological Nature of Preschool Personality Prototypes Determining the Number of Replicable ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/results-preschool-personality-prototypes.html METHOD Participants and Procedures The participants who took part in the Block Longitudinal Project (Block & Block, 1980; Gjerde, 1995) were recruited in preschool while attending either a parent cooperative or a university-run nursery school. The participants in this particular study were selected from 116 children who were recruited at age 3 ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/method-preschool-personality-prototypes.html Internal Coherence, Cross-Study Replicability, and Developmental Outcomes in Adolescence This study classified for resemblance 102 preschool children, who were described by their nursery school teachers using the California Child Q-sort. Inverse (Q) factor analysis identified three personality prototypes initially defined in terms of ego resiliency and ego undercontrol: overcontrolled resilient, resilient ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/preschool-personality-prototypes.html STUDY 1 We have proposed that some scientific conceptions of personality reflect an essentialist understanding of human attributes, and that this understanding may also be reflected in laypeople’s implicit personality theories. Study 1 was conducted to determine whether essentialist beliefs that had been found to covary in research on social categories ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/personality-and-social-psychology-bulletin-essentialism-and-personality.html Two studies examine implicit theories about the nature of personality characteristics, asking whether they are understood as underlying essences. Consistent with the hypothesis, essentialist beliefs about personality formed a coherent and replicable set. Personality characteristics differed systematically in the extent to which they were judged to be discrete, biologically based, ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/essentialist-beliefs-about-personality-and-their-implications.html During the 1970s, social psychology was of two minds when it came to experimentation. As shown in Figures 1 through 3, early in the decade there was a marked increase in experimentation relative to individual differences approaches. Even as researchers turned increasingly to experimental approaches, however, the field underwent a ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/increased-awareness-of-experimentations-limitations.html The resurgence of personality psychology is a largescale sociological phenomenon. Like any such phenomenon, it is apt to have many causes that are difficult to document and impossible to quantify. Nevertheless, we have identified two distinct classes of hypotheses that might explain the resurgence of personality psychology: (a) increased awareness ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/why-personality-psychology-regained-the-ground-it-had-lost.html The publication of Mischel’s (1968) book was followed by a marked decline in the number of research studies, graduate training programs, and dissertations devoted to personality psychology. We consider each of these consequences in turn. Research After Mischel’s Critique To determine if the landscape of published personality and social psychological research ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/the-impact-of-mischels-critique-on-personality-psychology.html The behaviorist John Watson (1925) once boasted that he could fashion people into whatever he desired—regardless of their unique qualities and personalities. A decade or so later Kurt Lewin (widely regarded as the father of experimental social psychology) challenged this one-sided view of psychology. In his field theory, Lewin argued ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/the-legacy-of-behaviorism.html Psychology’s early allegiance to behaviorism and experimental methods led many to disparage personality approaches throughout much of last century. Doubts about personality psychology’s viability culminated in Mischel’s assertion that measures of personality account for modest amounts of variance in behavior. In the years immediately following this critique, interest in personality ... http://www.thishelps.net/2008/11/personality-psychologys-comeback-and-its-emerging-symbiosis-with-social-psychology.html