| Abstract: | "… much of our research on traits is overweighted with methodological preoccupation… we have too few restraints holding us to the structure of a life as it is lived. We find ourselves confused by our intemperate empiricism which often yields unnamable factors, arbitrary codes, unintelligible interaction effects, and sheer flatulence from our computors… I propose the restraints of 'houristic realism' which accepts the common-sense assumption that persons are real beings, that each has a real neuropsychic organization, and that our job is to comprehend this organization as well as we can." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
