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Accuracy in Personality Judgment and the Dancing Bear

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Personality Psychology

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This is a symposium devoted to the future of personality research, and one development that seems likely to emerge in that future is an increasing integration of personality with social psychology. What a relief. Over the past two decades these supposedly neighboring subfields have practically been at each other’s throats. In part, this antagonism was an unpleasant side effect of the “person-situation debate,” and, in part, it arose out of sheer ignorance, by members of each subfield, about the aims and methodological tools of the other. As a result, as Kenrick and Funder (1988) wrote, “the two subdisciplines [have] sometimes seemed intent on defining each other out of existence” (p. 31).

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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Funder, D.C. (1989). Accuracy in Personality Judgment and the Dancing Bear. In: Buss, D.M., Cantor, N. (eds) Personality Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0634-4_16

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