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Title Personality Research, Methods, and Theory : a Festschrift Honoring Donald W. Fiske / edited by Patrick E. Shrout, Susan T. Fiske
Published New York : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (386 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Part I Metatheory in Personality and Behavioral Research: Critiques of Theoretical Approaches to Behavioral Research; 1 Whither or Wither Personality Research; 2 The Postpositivist, Nonfoundational, Hermeneutic Epistemology Exemplified in the Works of Donald W. Fiske; 3 What the Hell Took So Long? Donald W. Fiske and the Big-Five Factor Structure; 4 Utiles, Hedons, and the Mind-Body Problem, or, Who's Afraid of Vilfredo?; 5 The Validity of Scientific Quality
Part II Measuring the Concepts of Personality: Analysis and Interpretation of Multitrait-Multimethod Matrices and Observer Consensus6 Measuring the Degree of Consensus in Personality Judgments; 7 The Statistical Analysis of Method Effects in Multitrait-Multimethod Data: A Review; 8 The Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix: Design, Analysis, and Conceptual Issues; 9 Covariance Components Analysis of the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix; 10 Giving Method Variance Its Due; Part III Strategies for Personality Research: A Focus on Subjects' and Observers' Responses to the Measurement Process
11 Item Response Theory in Personality Research12 Response-Process Models: Toward an Integration of Cognitive-Processing Models, Psychometric Models, Latent-Trait Theory, and Self-Schemas; 13 Self-Knowledge of Psychological States: The Status of Subjects' Accounts; 14 Words! Words! Words! Confronting the Problem in Observations; 15 Individual Differences in Face-to-Face Interaction; 16 Effects of Motivation and Emotion on Thought Flow and Cognition: Assessment and Findings; 17 The Cultural Dimensions of Psychological Research: Method Effects Imply Cultural Mediation
18 Principles for Designing Studies of the Process and Efficacy of Psychotherapies19 On the Measurement of Competence Motivation; 20 Conceptualizing and Measuring Sexual Self-Esteem; Part IV Closing Remarks; 21 Reprise, New Themes, and Steps Forward; Author Index ; Subject Index
Summary Donald W. Fiske's professional life and collaborations are themselves a textbook in the development of the field of personality. From the field's early origins in personnel selection, rating accuracy, and psychotherapy outcomes, to its current status of theoretical and methodological maturity -- complete with mid-life crises -- the field has been fundamentally changed by Fiske's work, and the changes have influenced generations of scholars. This festschrift is a celebration of Fiske's impact, but not merely of his impact on the history of personality research. Instead, the volume focu
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Subject Fiske, Donald Winslow, 1916-
SUBJECT Fiske, Donald Winslow, 1916- fast (OCoLC)fst00000723
Subject Personality -- Research -- Methodology
Personality assessment.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
Personality assessment.
Personality -- Research -- Methodology.
Form Electronic book
Author Shrout, Patrick E
Fiske, Susan T
ISBN 9781317781677
1317781678