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Let me begin by saying that I am entirely in sympathy with Professor Eysenck’s view that a full understanding of personality will include its physiological and biochemical underpinnings and its genetic and environmental etiology, I’m not so sure I agree with him that this is the only way to go. It seems to me that there is still plenty of room for specialists, such as experts in the description and measurement of phenotypic personality - people who say, “I’ll, describe the regularities, let those other guys explain them.” Nevertheless, it is clear that Eysenck’s approach is a challenging one, that it is a route taken by a number of other participants at this conference, and that his ideas deserve our serious attention.
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Loehlin, J.C. (1993). The Genes and P. In: Hettema, J., Deary, I.J. (eds) Foundations of Personality. NATO ASI Series, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1660-2_5
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