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The spectrum of theories of personality represents a range of accounts and explanations of the phenomena constituting personality development, processes, and functioning. Even more fundamentally, however, each personality theory differs in its conception of what personality is. Certain theoretical viewpoints even question or dispute whether personality, in the sense of a force that controls and directs intentions and actions, exists. Perhaps the best known instance of such a perspective is that of B. F. Skinner (1957), B. F. Skinner (1971)) who argued that behavior is controlled not by the person or personality, but by the environmental consequences of the person’s behavior.
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Gold, S.N., Bacigalupe, G. (1998). Interpersonal and Systemic Theories of Personality. In: Barone, D.F., Hersen, M., Van Hasselt, V.B. (eds) Advanced Personality. The Plenum Series in Social/Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8580-4_3
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