Carol Shumate
44 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Big Five, Carol Shumate, cognitivism, Costa and McCrae, critical psychology, Daniel Wegner, deduction, empiricism, FFM, Five Factor Model, free trait theory, idiographic, induction, intersubjectivity, ironic process theory, John Locke, Klaus Holzkamp, MBTI, mental functions, Neuroticism, nomothetic, Peter Higgs, positivism, postmodernism, psychometrics, Richard Owen, sensationalism, subjectivity, Thomas Kuhn, traits
December 28, 2021

Academic personality research likes to consider trait psychology to be the scientific revolution that overtook and replaced Jung’s type psychology. However, it may be more accurate to view type and trait models as complementary because the conceptual divide has been shifting, and many trends in academic personality research now reflect the fundamental principles of Jung’s type system.
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