Fifty years of personality psychology / edited by Kenneth H. Craik, Robert Hogan, and Raymond N. Wolfe.

New York : Plenum Press, [1993], ©1993.

xx, 313 pages ; 23 cm.

"This volume celebrates the textbooks Personality: a psychological interpretation by Gordon W. Allport and Psychology of personality by Ross Stagner, both first published in 1937"--Pref

The 1937 Allport and Stagner texts in personality psychology / Kenneth H. Craik -- Fifty years of the psychology of personality : reminiscences / Ross Stagner -- Allport's Personality and Allport's personality / Alan C. Elms -- Allport and Murray on Allport's Personality : a confrontation in 1946-1947 / M. Brewster Smith -- Pattern and organization : current trends and prospects for the future / Lawrence A. Pervin -- The continuing relevance of personality theory / Salvatore R. Maddi -- It's time to put theories of personality in their place, or, Allport and Stagner got it right, why can't we? / Gerald A. Mendelsohn -- Science and the single case / Irving E. Alexander -- Describing lives : Gordon Allport and the "science" of personality / Bertrum J. Cohler -- Gordon Allport and "Letters from Jenny" / David G. Winter

Allport's personal documents : then and now / Lawrence S. Wrightsman -- Conceptions of self and identity : a modern retrospective on Allport's view / Roy F. Baumeister -- Current status of the motive concept / Robert A. Emmons -- The ability to judge others from their expressive behaviors / Bella M. DePaulo -- Judgments of personality and personality itself / David C. Funder -- Gordon Allport : father and critic of the five-factor model / Oliver P. John and Richard W. Robins -- To predict some of the people more of the time : individual traits and the prediction of behavior / Peter Borkenau -- The scientific credibility of commonsense psychology / Garth J.O. Fletcher -- A commonsense approach to personality measurement / Raymond N. Wolfe -- An optimistic forecast / Robert Hogan.

Includes bibliographic references and indexes