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In reading over the 1937 personality texts of Allport and Stagner in preparation for a colloquium series in honor of them, I was struck with a passage from the 1980 Annual Review chapter by Jackson and Paunonen: “We share with Block the view that these earlier authors frequently expressed central issues in personality theory more cogently than do the writings of some contemporary authors who seem to have rediscovered the same issues” (p. 505). Reference was being made to Allport, Lewin, Murphy, and Murray, but Stagner could have been included as well.†
This chapter is adapted from an address given at the Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California at Berkeley, Spring 1987.
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Pervin, L.A. (1993). Pattern and Organization. In: Craik, K.H., Hogan, R., Wolfe, R.N. (eds) Fifty Years of Personality Psychology. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2311-0_5
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