Lo que he aprendido tras 40 años de investigación en personalidad

Seymour  Epstein

doi:10.24310/espsiescpsi.vi6.13403

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Seymour Epstein Universidad de Massachusetts, Amherst Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/espsiescpsi.vi6.13403

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Emoción, ansiedad, personalidad, sí mismo

Abstract

During the over 40 years in which I have conducted personality research, I have had a number of insights about the research process that I thought would be worth sharing: an awareness of the human side of science; lessons from the person-situation debate; lessons from comparing research on highly egoinvolving natural events, such as sport parachuting, with laboratory analogues; the realization of what it is wrong with the concept of Freudian unconscious and what should be done to replace it; and awareness of pervasive biases in the journal-reviewing process. Perhaps the one more general lesson I have learned is that the advancement of psychology as a cumulative, integrative science is hampered not so much by its conceptual complexity as by the difficulty of humankind to view itself objectively, with honesty, courage, and a willingness to surrender illusions.

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