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Professor Hyland addresses two issues in his paper—what the person-situation debate is about and, more significantly, where we go from here. Basic to the author’s position is the suggestion that what is in fact largely a methodological debate has been interpreted as one based on theoretical differences. I believe that this interpretation involves a somewhat artificial distinction and ignores much of the past and current history of the debate.
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Pervin, L.A. (1984). Persons, Situations, Interactions, and the Future of Personality. In: Royce, J.R., Mos, L.P. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9191-4_28
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