Hermeneutics of personality description.

Gergen, Kenneth J.; Hepburn, Alexandra; Fisher, Debra C.

doi:10.1037//0022-3514.50.6.1261

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

1986

DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.50.6.1261

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Hermeneutics of personality description.

Kenneth J. Gergen¹,

Alexandra Hepburn²,

Debra C. Fisher³

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Affective Scripts as Organizers of Personal Experience

Demorest¹,

Alexander

1992

Journal of Personality

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Tomkins's "script theory" was employed for personological inquiry into the ways that individuals organize their experience. This theory posits that individuals' experiences are organized by ideo-affective construals or "scripts." This thesis was examined by first extracting emotional incidents or "scenes" from the autobiographical reports of 10 individuals, and then deriving from these scenes the abstract sequential rules or "scripts" for handling scenes. One month following this assessment, the individuals were asked to create stories to aifective stimuli in order to assess whether the scripts derived from this source would be parallel to those generated in the autobiographical memories. A matching task determined that the individuals' ways of interpreting the affective stimuli indeed reflected the same scripts as those which appeared in their autobiographical memories. While particular script elements appeared to be person-specific, the general parameters of scripts were sometimes shared by various individuals. Avenues for future methodological developments and theoretical inquiries are discussed.The study of personality has suffered two forms of attack in the past 20 years. The first attack resulted from an empirical analysis, the second from a theoretical analysis. The research-based critique is best identified in Mischel's 1968 book on personality. In this work, Mischel argued that a survey of the empirical research on personality reveals that

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Affective Scripts as Organizers of Personal Experience

Demorest¹,

Alexander

1992

Journal of Personality

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Personal Influences on Professional Work: An Empirical Case Study of B. F. Skinner

Demorest¹,

Slegel²

1996

Journal of Personality

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This study addresses the hypothesis that individuals have characteristic ways of looking at the world that are revealed not only in their life story but also in their professional work. It seeks to provide the first empirical test of this hypothesis using systematic methods for data selection, interpretation, and matching, as applied to the case of B. F. Skinner. Using the salience identifier "primacy" (Alexander, 1990), Skinner's first research design and the first paragraph of his autobiography were selected for analysis. Adopting a personological approach to interpretation, "scripts" (Tomkins, 1987) were derived from these materials by blind and independent coders. A matching task (Allport, 1961) then indicated that the scripts derived from Skinner's work and life were substantially similar and significantly more similar than random pairs of scripts . A search through other autobiographical and professional writings by Skinner revealed that the elements of the discovered script appear recurrently in his imagery.

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An Interpersonal Communication Perspective on Images of Political Candidates

et al. 1988

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Much of the research dealing with the relationship between candidate images and candidate preferences has attempted to assess dimensions of the candidate's image that are relatively "personal"in nature. By and large, most of this research focuses on static traits-for example, aspects of the candidate's persona relating to such dimensions as warmth, attractiveness, or dynamism. In contrast, the current study attempts to assess the degree to which candidate preferences are significantly associated with observable behavior. This was done by asking respondents to evaluate RonaldReagan and Walter Mondale with an instrument normally used to assess elements of interpersonal communication. It was found that communication behavior ratings of Reagan and Mondale signijicantly predicted differential preferences for these candidates, even after controlling for the respondents' political orientations.

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Hermeneutics of personality description.

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References 11 publications

Affective Scripts as Organizers of Personal Experience

Affective Scripts as Organizers of Personal Experience

Personal Influences on Professional Work: An Empirical Case Study of B. F. Skinner

An Interpersonal Communication Perspective on Images of Political Candidates

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