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As we are fond of saying about psychology in general, the study of personality has a long past but only a short history. The proposal to specify 1937 as the date of origin for modern personality psychology has a certain plausibility: Gordon Allport and I both published formal textbooks on personality in that year, giving shape and academic respectability to the field; and Henry Murray’s Explorations in Personality (1938) came out less than 12 months later. It seems proper, therefore, to designate 1987 as the 50th year of the psychology of personality.
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Stagner, R. (1993). Fifty Years of the Psychology of Personality. In: Craik, K.H., Hogan, R., Wolfe, R.N. (eds) Fifty Years of Personality Psychology. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2311-0_2
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