Psychodigms of Theory in Personality and Social Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13653236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred Heilizer (DePaul University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-85 |
| Publication date | 1980-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1980.46.1.63 |
| OpenAlex | W2151008391 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
It is the contention of this paper that personality psychology and social psychology have developed different orientations to theory. Pronouncements of crisis emanating from each area are presumed to reflect these divergent developments. The orientation of social psychology, by means of situationism in social learning theory, is toward data-driven, empirical constructs and theories with a major cognitive content. The data-driven, empirical nature of constructs and theories in situationism emphasizes the primacy of the data in developing the constructs and of asking limited, focussed questions. The orientation of personality psychology, by means of person-situation interactionism, is towards the more traditional concept-driven constructs and theories which emphasize the importance of extensive conceptual systems and broad semantic descriptions. These two orientations are seen as representing Kuhnian paradigms—herein called psychodigms—of different degrees of development. Situationism has developed from and within the Lewinian tradition and has achieved the status of a fully developed psychodigm for social psychology. Interactionism has developed more recently as a result of attacks by situationists on the psychoanalytically relevant constructs of motivation and trait and functions to conserve these constructs as concept-driven and as part of the person in the interaction. The newness of interactionism as the major orientation for personality psychology has produced, at most, a partially developed psychodigm. It is expected that the energizing and conformity-producing effect of a fully developed psychodigm is overwhelming as compared to the undetermined, and incompletely formed, power of a partially developed psychodigm. Judgments about the state of theory in, and future of, personality and social psychology may require consideration of the divergent psychodigms of theory
Big Five personality traits · Cognitive psychology · Conformity · Epistemology · Personality · Personality psychology · Situationism · Trait theory · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
International encyclopedia of the social sciences.
Advances In Experimental Social Psychology
Social learning and clinical psychology.
Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality.
Situationism in psychology
Social learning theory
Resolving social conflicts and field theory in social science
How relevant is an individual difference theory of personality? 1
The limits for the conventional science of personality1
Self-efficacy
On the future of personality measurement
Psychoanalytic theory
Traditional versus behavioral personality assessment
Models for optimizing the learning process
Personality research
Is experimental social psychology advancing
Social Psychology and Cultural Analysis 1
Gestalt psychology today
Is psychology relevant to new priorities
Of models and men
And still the dryads linger
Motivation and the cognitive revolution
Does psychology need its own philosophy of science
The crisis of confidence in social psychology
Behavior theory and the models of man
Why did their precursors fail and the Gestalt psychologists succeed? Reflections on theories and theorists
Beyond the two disciplines of scientific psychology
Interactionism in personality from a historical perspective
Where is the person in personality research
The Origins of Modern Science
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |