Personality: Nomothetic or idiographic? A response to Kenrick and Stringfield.

J. Philippe Rushton · Douglas N. Jackson · Sampo V. Paunonen

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It is suggested, contrary to the interpretation presented by Kenrick and Stringfield, that substantial consistency can be observed in personality as reflected in both behavior and judges' ratings when the principle of aggregation is applied to traditional nomothetic assessment procedures and results are interpreted in terms of classical reliability theory. Moreover, it is demonstrated that conclusions by Kenrick and Stringfield about the supposed improvement in predictive power stemming from an idiographic analysis do not follow from their data because they confound trait consistency and trait extremity and fail to take account of restriction and inflation of range effects.

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