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Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement, both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. Personality and Individual Differences: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 14 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Hans Eysenck, Raymond Cattell, Ernest Tupes and Raymond Christal to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired.
Factor Analysis of Trait-Names : Revisiting Cattell (1943)
Factor Analysis of Trait-Names : Revisiting Cattell (1943)
Background to the study
Raymond B. Cattell was the seventh most highly cited psychologist of the 20th century – based on citations of the scientific peer-reviewed journal literature (Haggbloom et al., 2002). Upon completing a BSc (Hons) degree (with first-class honours in both chemistry and physics), Cattell switched to the newly emerging field of psychology where he perceived the need to undertake a comprehensive research programme into the basic description and measurement of psychological constructs. Thus, soon after accepting Gordon Allport’s invitation to an academic position at Harvard University in 1941, Cattell began planning a grand project that he had ...
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