RETHINKING AND RECLAIMING THE INTERDISCIPLINARY ROLE OF PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY - THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN-NATURE SHOULD BE THE CENTER OF THE SOCIAL-SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

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.