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Temperament and the Person-Situation Debate

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Explorations in Temperament

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Abstract

The last two decades were a period of crisis and critical self-examination for Western personality psychology. Until the late 1960s, by far the most prominent model of personality was the dispositional model reflecting the conviction that a person’s strivings, beliefs, feelings, typical ways of behaving, etc., could be condensed in a rather limited set of personality traits. In this model it was further assumed that these traits are stable and consistent enough to be powerful predictors, not only of general behavioral trends across time and across situational domains, but also of single reactions in specific situations (see, e. g., Ozer, 1986).

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Van Heck, G.L. (1991). Temperament and the Person-Situation Debate. In: Strelau, J., Angleitner, A. (eds) Explorations in Temperament. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0643-4_11

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