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This chapter is about the conceptual relation between personality and temperament. I propose to define the psychology of personality as the study of traits. I argue against both social and biological conceptions of personality in the context of the psychological subdiscipline of personality. In attempting a restoration of the orthodox personological approach, I enlist the aid of temperamentalists on the one hand, but go against tendencies to explain temperament in biological terms on the other.
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Hofstee, W.K.B. (1991). The Concepts of Personality and Temperament. 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_12
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