Nicole B Barenbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole B Barenbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole B |
| FAMILY NAME | Barenbaum |
| SIGNATURE | BARENBAUM N B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sewanee: The University of the South |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
PersonalityThe authors would like to thank William McKinley Runyan for his helpful suggestions on the first edition of this chapter.
This chapter considers the historical puzzle of personality psychologists' ambivalence toward case studies and life histories. Examining the formative period of personality research between 1900 and 1930, which has received scant attention in historical reviews of American personality psychology, the authors argue that early research in personality reveals a tension between two central tasks of personality psychology—the study of individual diffe…
Jews and the American soul
Great psychologists and their times
How social was personality? The Allports' ?connection? of social and personality psychology
This paper investigates three conflicting reconstructions of the historical relationship between personality and social psychology and addresses questions they raise regarding the subdisciplinary status of personality in the 1920s and the way in which the field gradually emerged as a separate area of psychology. Contesting claims that Floyd Allport first connected social psychology to a separate "branch" of personality psychology in the 1920s, I …
Divorce American Style
The Case(s) of Gordon Allport
Gordon Allport has frequently been criticized for advocating the use of idiographic studies but undertaking only one such study himself. This article describes Allport's work on the case of Marion Taylor, an unpublished study that clearly contributed to his later work on the case method. The unfinished Taylor case materials suggest that Ada Allport was an important collaborator in Allport's work with individual cases. The case of Taylor is compar…
Responsibility and the power motive in women and men
Previous research on the correlates of power motivation in women and men had shown no gender differences, when the presence of younger siblings (reflecting responsibility training) was used as a moderator variable This study reports development of an empirically derived direct TAT measure of responsibility as a moderator variable for the power motive The new measure includes mention of legal or moral standards, obligation concern about others, co…
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Responsibility and the power motive in women and men
Previous research on the correlates of power motivation in women and men had shown no gender differences, when the presence of younger siblings (reflecting responsibility training) was used as a moderator variable This study reports development of an empirically derived direct TAT measure of responsibility as a moderator variable for the power motive The new measure includes mention of legal or moral standards, obligation concern about others, co…
The Case(s) of Gordon Allport
Gordon Allport has frequently been criticized for advocating the use of idiographic studies but undertaking only one such study himself. This article describes Allport's work on the case of Marion Taylor, an unpublished study that clearly contributed to his later work on the case method. The unfinished Taylor case materials suggest that Ada Allport was an important collaborator in Allport's work with individual cases. The case of Taylor is compar…
Divorce American Style
How social was personality? The Allports' ?connection? of social and personality psychology
This paper investigates three conflicting reconstructions of the historical relationship between personality and social psychology and addresses questions they raise regarding the subdisciplinary status of personality in the 1920s and the way in which the field gradually emerged as a separate area of psychology. Contesting claims that Floyd Allport first connected social psychology to a separate "branch" of personality psychology in the 1920s, I …
Great psychologists and their times
Jews and the American soul
PersonalityThe authors would like to thank William McKinley Runyan for his helpful suggestions on the first edition of this chapter.
This chapter considers the historical puzzle of personality psychologists' ambivalence toward case studies and life histories. Examining the formative period of personality research between 1900 and 1930, which has received scant attention in historical reviews of American personality psychology, the authors argue that early research in personality reveals a tension between two central tasks of personality psychology—the study of individual diffe…
Psychology (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (3 works) · Ambivalence (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Library science (2 works)