PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Scientific Method, Jon Runyan, Nomothetic
14 Jan 2016
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Where"s the person in personality research? (carlson, 1984) Journal of personality and social psychology (1982), section 3(personality. Table 3: non-college students, biographical data. Treatment relevant 22: over 2 months, analysis at person level. Percentage of how many of the papers she analyzed included the above information. Personality is not personality variables" and individual. Need to reflect development and dynamic organization of differences personality. Need to look at real people in real situations in real time. If you take someone out of context and treat them as variables and not real people and do not follow them over long periods of time to watch their development you are omitting a large part of personality. Problem: pressures for productivity and clean methodology. Idea that you need to publish a lot of papers to get promotions for academics. Psychologists tend to start with a design that is methodologically sound and many see purpose in doing studies that are methodologically clean or sound.
