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This book celebrates 50 years of personality psychology as a formal discipline, the birth of which was announced by the near-simultaneous publication in 1937 of Gordon Allport’s and Ross Stagner’s textbooks. Allport and Stagner thought they were witnessing (if not engendering) the beginning of a new scientific enterprise. Fifty years later, it might be useful to ask how well we are doing.
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Hogan, R. (1993). An Optimistic Forecast. In: Craik, K.H., Hogan, R., Wolfe, R.N. (eds) Fifty Years of Personality Psychology. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2311-0_20
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