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In academic circles, the past 20 years have shown a decline in the influence of personality theorizing. For the first part of that period, the person-situation debate fulminated, with the social psychologists and behaviorists joining with some in the personality field to argue that situation rather than person variables account for behavior. Although there were counterarguments raised, some psychologists came to wonder whether personality exists at all, and even those who did not go this far were likely to conclude that the personality area is a mess. Finally, cooler heads prevailed, and an interactional accord was reached in which behavior was regarded as a joint function of situational and person variables, with the emphasis of empirical study being on the interaction of the two.
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Maddi, S.R. (1993). The Continuing Relevance of Personality Theory. 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_6
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