What is it about?

Various disciplines study individual differences but focus on different aspects and use different methods. To understand individuals, we need to integrate the knowledge produced in different fields. This guide shows how this can be done in systematic ways.

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Why is it important?

For a century, individual differences have largely been studied with language-based approaches in psychology. But everyday language is insufficient to adequately categorise individual differences and to explore their biological underpinnings. This guide provides systematic concepts and principles to meaningfully combine the approaches and methods that different disciplines use for exploring individual differences.

Perspectives

Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research is challenging. But it provides unique opportunities to learn from the experts in different fields and to get to know very different perspectives on the same study phenomenon.

Dr Jana Uher
University of Greenwich

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This page is a summary of: Taxonomic models of individual differences: a guide to transdisciplinary approaches, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2018, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0171.
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