Personality and Assessment by Walter Mischel - 9781138144415

Taylor & Francis

Personality and AssessmentAuthor(s): Walter Mischel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Psychology Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781138144415, 978-1138144415\nSynopsis\nAfter many \""out-of-print\"" years, this volume has been reissued in response to an increasing demand for copies. This reflects that the fundamental questions that motivated this book thirty years ago are still being asked. But more important, the answers -- or at least their outlines -- now seem to be in sight. In 1968, this book stood as an expression of a paradigm crisis in its critique of the state of personality psychology. The last three decades have been filled with controversy and debate about the dilemmas raised here, and then with renewal and fresh discoveries. It therefore seems especially timely to revisit the pages which posed the challenges. \n\n Mischel outlined the need to encompass the situation in the study of personality, but with a focus on the acquired meaning of""