RETHINKING AND RECLAIMING THE INTERDISCIPLINARY ROLE OF PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY - THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN-NATURE SHOULD BE THE CENTER OF THE SOCIAL-SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Rf. Baumeister et Dm. Tice, RETHINKING AND RECLAIMING THE INTERDISCIPLINARY ROLE OF PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY - THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN-NATURE SHOULD BE THE CENTER OF THE SOCIAL-SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES, Journal of research in personality, 30(3), 1996, pp. 363-373
For both intellectual and practical reasons, it behooves personality p
sychology to adopt a broad self-definition, which should include inter
disciplinary activity. The broad, interdisciplinary status of personal
ity psychology was an important cause of its prominence for several de
cades, but the field has not maintained this in recent years. We sugge
st that personality psychologists make an active effort to recapture a
prominent interdisciplinary role and we propose specific steps toward
accomplishing this. (C) 1996 Academic Press, Inc.