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Personality is Transcontextual

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McCrae, RR; Costa, PT
Published in: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
June 1984
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Based on his experience with TAT measures, Veroff (1983) has proposed that personality must be defined within historical, developmental, and social contexts. Several alternative interpretations of his results are offered, and it is argued that contextual interpretations, though attractive, focus unwarranted attention on unreplicable results. Using reliable and valid measures of personality, recent longitudinal findings support the more parsimonious interpretation that personality is stable in adulthood and that relations between personality and important outcomes hold over a wide variety of contexts.

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Paul T. Costa Jr.
Author Paul T. Costa Jr. Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care

Published In

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

DOI

10.1177/0146167284102002

EISSN

1552-7433

ISSN

0146-1672

Publication Date

June 1984

Volume

10

Issue

2

Start / End Page

175 / 179

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T. (1984). Personality is Transcontextual. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 10(2), 175–179. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167284102002
McCrae, Robert R., and Paul T. Costa. “Personality is Transcontextual.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 10, no. 2 (June 1984): 175–79. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167284102002.
McCrae RR, Costa PT. Personality is Transcontextual. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 1984 Jun;10(2):175–9.
McCrae, Robert R., and Paul T. Costa. “Personality is Transcontextual.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 10, no. 2, SAGE Publications, June 1984, pp. 175–79. Crossref, doi:10.1177/0146167284102002.
McCrae RR, Costa PT. Personality is Transcontextual. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. SAGE Publications; 1984 Jun;10(2):175–179.
Journal cover image

Published In

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

DOI

10.1177/0146167284102002

EISSN

1552-7433

ISSN

0146-1672

Publication Date

June 1984

Volume

10

Issue

2

Start / End Page

175 / 179

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology