What is it about?
The TPS-Paradigm is aimed at supporting scientists exploring individuals to make explicit and critically reflect on their basic assumptions, metatheories, and methodologies. Here it is applied to explore the basic ideas underlying concepts of 'personality' and to critically analyse the methods used for investigations. This reveals limitations of popular 'trait' concepts and assessment methods not well considered. The TPS-Paradigm is aimed at broadening the portfolio of theories and methods applied in the field to enable comprehensive explorations of 'personality'.
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Personality psychology is fragmented across different theoretical schools of thinking, each with their own particular concepts and theories. The metatheoretical concepts of the TPS-Paradigm highlight commonalities and differences and enable meaningful integrations. They show that 'trait' concepts are based on mistaken beliefs and entail circular explanations. They also highlight that, because psychologists overly rely on rating methods, important ways in which individuals differ (e.g., in their behaviours) have not yet been systematically studied.
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This page is a summary of: The Transdisciplinary
Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals: Foundations for
the Science of Personality and Individual Differences, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.4135/9781526451163.n4.
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Jana Uher has developed a novel transdisciplinary and philosophy-of-science paradigm focused on individuals, their personality, behaviours and social relationships.
Transdisciplinary Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals
The TPS-Paradigm provides philosophical, metatheoretical and methodological frameworks to explore the complexity of individuals and their lives from transdisciplinary viewpoints.
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