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Kuhn, T. S. (1987). Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice. In J. A. Kourany (Ed.), Scientific knowledge: Basic issues in the philosophy of science (pp. 197-207). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. [This chapter originally appeared in Kuhn, T. S. (1977). The essential tension: Selected studies in scientific tradition and change (pp. 320-339). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.]
Lakatos, I. (1987). Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In J. A. Kourany (Ed.), Scientific knowledge: Basic issues in the philosophy of science (pp. 170-196), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. [This chapter originally appeared in Lakatos, I. (1970). Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In I. Lakatos & A. Musgrave (Eds.), Criticism and the growth of knowledge (pp. 91-92, 94-125, 127-138, 189-195). New York: Cambridge University Press.]
Hacking, I. (1983). A surrogate for truth. In I. Hacking, Representing and intervening: Introductory topics in the philosophy of natural science (pp. 112-129). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Acton, G. S. (1996). Why the earth may really be flat. Unpublished manuscript, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Hempel, C., & Oppenheim, P. (1987). Studies in the logic of explanation. In J. A. Kourany (Ed.), Scientific knowledge: Basic issues in the philosophy of science (pp. 30-43), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. [This chapter originally appeared in Hempel, C., & Oppenheim, P. (1948). Studies in the logic of explanation. Philosophy of Science, 15, 135-175.]
Wallach, L., & Wallach, M. A. (1994). Gergen versus the mainstream: Are hypotheses in social psychology subject to empirical test? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 233-242.
Meehl, P. E. (1978). Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 806-834.
Gergen, K. J. (1973). Social psychology as history. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 26, 309-320.
Schlenker, B. R. (1974). Social psychology and science. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 29, 1-15.
Eysenck, H. J. (1985). The place of theory in a world of facts. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 3, 17-72.
Freud, S. (1949). An outline of psychoanalysis. New York: Norton.
Grünbaum, A. (1986). Précis of The foundations of psychoanalysis: A philosophical critique. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9, 217-284.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Westen, D. (1990). Psychoanalytic approaches to personality. In L. A. Pervin (Ed.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (pp. 21-65). New York: Guilford.
Silverman, L. H. (1976). Psychoanalytic theory: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." American Psychologist, 31, 621-637.
Arlow, J., & Brenner, C. (1964). Psychoanalytic concepts and the structural model. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (Monograph No. 3).
Wallerstein, R. S. (1988). One psychoanaysis or many? International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 69, 5-21.
Hartman, H., Kris, E., & Loewenstein, R. (1946). Comments on the formation of psychic structure. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2, 11-38.
Sandler, J., & Rosenblatt, B. (1962). The concept of the representational world. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 17, 128-145.
Blatt, S. J., & Shichman, S. (1983). Two primary configurations of psychopathology. Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought, 6, 187-254.
Mischel, W. (1993). Behavioral conceptions. In W. Mischel, Introduction to personality (pp. 295-316). New York: Harcourt Brace.
Skinner, B. F. (1984). Selection by consequences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 477-510. [This article originally appeared in Skinner, B. F. (1981). Selection by consequences. Science, 213, 501-504.]
Seligman, M. E. P. (1970). On the generality of the laws of learning. Psychological Review, 77, 406-418.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Zuriff, G. E. (1986). Précis of Behaviorism: A conceptual reconstruction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9, 687-724.
Rescorla, R. A. (1988). Pavlovian conditioning: It's not what you think it is. American Psychologist, 43, 151-160.
Dennett, D. C. (1978). Skinner skinned. In D. C. Dennett, Brainstorms: Philosophical essays on mind and psychology (pp. 53-70). Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books.
Dennett, D. C. (1978). Why the law of effect will not go away. In D. C. Dennett, Brainstorms: Philosophical essays on mind and psychology (pp. 71-89). Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books.
Chomsky, N. (1959). A review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal behavior. Language, 35, 26-58.
Skinner, B. F. (1984). The phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 669-711. [This article originally appeared in Skinner, B. F. (1966). Phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior. Science, 153, 1205-1213.]
Skinner, B. F. (1986). What is wrong with daily life in the Western world? American Psychologist, 41, 568-574.
Zuriff, G. E. (1979). Ten inner causes. Behaviorism, 7, 1-8.
Skinner, B. F. (1931). The concept of the reflex in the description of behavior. Journal of General Psychology, 5, 427-458.
Buss, D. M. (1989). Sex differences in human mating: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 1-49.
Lewontin, R. C. (1979). Sociobiology as an adaptationist program. Behavioral Science, 24, 5-14.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Kitcher, P. (1987). Précis of Vaulting ambition: Sociobiology and the quest for human nature. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, 61-100.
Hubbard, R. (1990). The political nature of "human nature." In D. L. Rhode (Ed.), Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference (pp. 63-73). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Buss, D. M. (1991). Evolutionary personality psychology. Annual Review of Psychology, 42, 459-491.
Williams, R. N. (1996). Science or story telling? Evolutionary explanations of human sexuality. In B. Slife (Ed.), Taking sides: Clashing views on controversial psychological issues (pp. 35-43). Guilford, CT: Brown & Benchmark Publishers.
Archer, J. (1996). Sex differences in social behavior: Are the social role and evolutionary explanations compatible? American Psychologist, 51, 909-917.
Wright, R. (1988, July 11). Why men are still beasts. The New Republic, 114-119.
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1990). On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation. Journal of Personality, 58, 17-67.
Vining, D. R. (1986). Social versus reproductive success: The central theoretical problem of human sociobiology. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9, 167-216.
Ferguson, T. A. Y. (1995). Alternative sexualities and evolution. Evolutionary Theory, 11, 55-64.
Ainsworth, M. D. S., & Bowlby, J. (1991). An ethological approach to personality development. American Psychologist, 46, 333-341.
Lamb, M. E., Thompson, R. A., Gardner, W. P., Charnov, E. L, & Estes, D. (1984). Security of infantile attachment as assessed in the "strange situation": Its study and biological interpretation. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 127-171.
Hazan, C., & Shaver, P. R. (1987). Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 511-524.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Rothbard, J. C., & Shaver, P. R. (1994). Continuity of attachment across the life span. In M. B. Sperling & W. H. Berman (Eds.), Attachment in adults (pp. 31-71). New York: Guilford.
Griffin, D. W., & Bartholomew, K. (1994). The metaphysics of measurement: The case of adult attachment. Advances in personal relationships, volume 5 (pp. 17-52). London: Jessica Kingsley.
Kraemer, G. W. (1992). A psychobiological theory of attachment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 493-541.
Mikulincer, M. (1995). Attachment style and the mental representation of the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 1203-1215.
Bartholomew, K., & Horowitz, L. M. (1991). Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 226-244.
Feeney, J., & Noller, P. (1990). Attachment style as a predictor of adult romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 281-291.
Shaver, P. R., & Brennan, K. A. (1992). Attachment styles and the "big five" personality traits: Their connections with each other and with romantic relationship outcomes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 536-545.
Miller, L. C., & Fishkin, S. A. (in press). On the dynamics of human bonding and reproductive success: Seeking "widows" on the "adapted-for" human-environment interface. In J. Simpson & D. Kenrick (Eds.), Evolutionary Social Psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Horowitz, L. M., Dryer, D. C., & Krasnoperova, E. N. (1997). The circumplex structure of interpersonal problems. In R. Plutchik & H. R. Conte (Eds.), Circumplex models of personality and emotions (pp. 347-384). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Orford, J. (1986). The rules of interpersonal complementarity: Does hostility beget hostility and dominance, submission? Psychological Review, 93, 365-377.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Kiesler, D. J. (1983). The 1982 interpersonal circle: A taxonomy for complementarity in human transactions. Psychological Review, 90, 185-214.
Acton, G. S., & Revelle, W. (1997). Interpersonal theory and circumplex structure. Manuscript in preparation, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Wiggins, J. S. (1991). Agency and communion as conceptual coordinates for the understanding and measurement of interpersonal behavior. In D. Cicchetti & W. Grove (Eds.), Thinking clearly about psychology: Essays in honor of Paul Everett Meehl (pp. 89-113). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Wiggins, J. S., Phillips, N., & Trapnell, P. (1989). Circular reasoning about interpersonal behavior: Evidence concerning some untested assumptions underlying diagnostic classification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 296-305.
Wiggins, J. S. (1979). A psychological taxonomy of trait-descriptive terms: The interpersonal domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 395-412.
Benjamin, L. S. (1974). Structural analysis of social behavior. Psychological Review, 81, 392-425.
Bluhm, C., Widiger, T. A., & Miele, G. M. (1990). Interpersonal complementarity and individual differences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 464-471.
Tracey, T. J. (1994). An examination of the complementarity of interpersonal behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 864-878.
Horowitz, L. M., Locke, K. D., Morse, M. B., Waikar, S. V., & Dryer, D. C. (1991). Self-derogations and the interpersonal theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 68-79.
Goldberg, L. R., & Digman, J. M. (1994). Revealing structure in the data: Principles of exploratory factor analysis. In S. Strack and M. Lorr (Eds.), Differentiating normal and abnormal personality (pp. 216-242). New York: Springer.
Digman, J. M. (1990). Personality structure: Emergence of the five-factor model. Annual Review of Psychology, 41, 417-440.
Block, J. (1995). A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 187-215.
Goldberg, L. R., & Saucier, G. (1995). So what do you propose we use instead? A reply to Block. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 221-225.
Costa, P. T., Jr., & McCrae, R. R. (1995). Solid ground in the wetlands of personality: A reply to Block. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 216-220.
Block, J. (1995). Going beyond the five factors given: Rejoinder to Costa and McCrae (1995) and Goldberg and Saucier (1995). Psychological Bulletin, 117, 226-229.
Additional Recommended Readings:
McAdams, D. P. (1992). The five-factor model in personality: A critical appraisal. Journal of Personality, 60, 329-361.
Hofstee, W. K. B., de Raad, B., & Goldberg, L. R. (1992). Integration of the big five and circumplex approaches to trait structure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 146-163.
Saucier, G. (1992). Benchmarks: Integrating affective and interpersonal circles with the big-five personality factors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 1025-1035.
Mershon, B., & Gorsuch, R. (1988). Number of factors in the personality sphere: Does increase in factors increase predictability in real-life criteria? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 675-680.
Buss, D. M. (1996). Social adaptation and five major factors of personality. In J. S. Wiggins (Ed.), The five-factor model of personality: Theoretical perspectives (pp. 180-207). New York: Guilford.
Angleitner, A., Ostendorf, F., & John, O. P. (1990). Towards a taxonomy of personality descriptors in German: A psycho-lexical study. European Journal of Personality, 4, 89-118.
Jang, K. L., Vernon, P. A., & Livesley, W. J. (1996). Heritability of the big five personality dimensions: A twin study. Journal of Personality, 64, 577-591.
Eysenck, H. J. (1991). Dimensions of personality: 16, 5, or 3?--Criteria for a taxonomic paradigm. Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 773-790.
Gray, J. A. (1981). A critique of Eysenck's theory of personality. In H. J. Eysenck (Ed.), A model for personality (pp. 246-277). Berlin: Springer.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Eysenck, H. J. (1990). Biological dimensions of personality. In L. A. Pervin (Ed.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (pp. 244-276). New York: Guilford.
Revelle, W., Humphreys, M. S., Simon, L., & Gilliland, K. (1980). The interactive effect of personality, time of day, and caffeine: A test of the arousal model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 109, 1-31.
Eysenck, H. J. (1987). The role of heredity, environment, and "preparedness" in the genesis of neurosis. In H. J. Eysenck & I. Martin (Eds.), Theoretical foundations of behavior therapy (pp. 379-402). New York: Plenum.
Geen, R. (1984). Preferred stimulation levels in introverts and extraverts: Effects on arousal and performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 1303-1312.
McGurk, H., & McDougall, C. (1981). A new approach to Eysenck's theory of criminality. Personality and Individual Differences, 2, 169-174.
Claridge, G. S., Donald, J. R., & Birchall, P. M. (1981). Drug tolerance and personality: Some implications for Eysenck's theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 2, 153-166.
Gray, J. A. (1972). The psychophysiological basis of introversion-extraversion: A modification of Eysenck's theory. In V. D. Nebylitsyn & J. A. Gray (Eds.), Biological bases of individual behavior (pp. 182-205). New York: Academic.
James, W. (1884). What is an emotion? Mind, 9, 188-205.
Ortony, A., & Turner, T. J. (1990). What's basic about basic emotions? Psychological Review, 97, 315-331.
Plutchik, R. (1980). A general psychoevolutionary theory of emotion. In R. Plutchik & H. Kellerman (Eds.), Emotion: Theory, research, and experience: Vol. 1. Theories of emotion (pp. 3-33). New York: Academic Press.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Ekman, P. (1992). Are there basic emotions? Psychological Reveiw, 99, 550-553.
Panksepp, J. (1992). A critical role for "affective neuroscience" in resolving what is basic about basic emotions. Psychological Review, 99, 554-560.
Panksepp, J. (1982). Toward a general psychobiological theory of emotions. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5, 407-467.
Ross, E. D., Homan, R. W., & Buck, R. (1994). Differential hemispheric lateralization of primary and social emotions: Implications for developing a comprehensive neurology for emotions, repression, and the subconscious. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology, 7, 1-19.
Oatley, K., & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (1987). Towards a cognitive theory of emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 1, 29-50.
Tomkins, S. S. (1984). Affect theory. In K. P. Scherer & P. Ekman (Eds.), Approaches to emotion (pp. 163-195). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Ekman, P., Friesen, W. V., & Ellsworth, P. (1982). What emotion categories or dimensions can observers judge from facial behavior? In P. Ekman (Ed.), Emotion in the human face (pp. 39-55). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Mischel, W. (1993). Cognitive social conceptions. In W. Mischel, Introduction to personality (pp. 395-417). New York: Harcourt Brace.
Mischel, W. (1973). Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality. Psychological Review, 80, 252-283.
Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84, 191-215.
Mischel, W. (1993). Personality coherence and person-situation interaction. In W. Mischel, Introduction to personality (pp. 531-566). New York: Harcourt Brace.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Woodward, W. R. (1982). The "discovery" of social behaviorism and social learning theory, 1870-1980. American Psychologist, 37, 396-410.
Wright, J. C., & Mischel, W. (1987). A conditional approach to dispositional constructs: The local predictability of social behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 301-322.
Mischel, W. (1990). Personality dispositions revisited and revised: A view after three decades. In L. A. Pervin (Ed.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (pp. 111-134). New York: Guilford.
Bandura, A. (1974). Behavior theory and the models of man. American Psychologist, 29, 859-869.
Bandura, A. (1976). Self-reinforcement: Theoretical and methodological considerations. Behaviorism, 4, 135-155.
Kenrick, D. T., & Funder, D. C. (1988). Profiting from controversy: Lessons from the person-situation debate. American Psychologist, 43, 23-34.
Neisser, U., Boodoo, G., Bouchard, T. J., Jr., Boykin, A. W., Brody, N., Ceci, S. J., Halpern, D. F., Loehlin, J. C., Perloff, R., Sternberg, R. J., & Urbina, S. (1996). Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns. American Psychologist, 51, 77-101.
Jensen, A. R. (1993). Why is reaction time correlated with psychometric g? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2, 53-56.
Ree, M. J., & Earles, J. A. (1992). Intelligence is the best predictor of job performance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1, 86-89.
Sternberg, R. J., & Wagner, R. K. (1993). The g-ocentric view of intelligence and job performance is wrong. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2, 1-4.
Additional Recommended Readings:
Carroll, J. B. (1985). Exploratory factor analysis: A tutorial. In D. K. Detterman (Ed.), Current topics in human intelligence: Vol. 1. Research methodology (pp. 25-58). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Petrill, S. A., Saudino, K., Cherny, S. S., Emde, R. N., Hewitt, J. K., Fulker, D. W., & Plomin, R. (1997). Exploring the genetic etiology of low general cognitive ability from 14 to 36 months. Developmental Psychology, 33, 544-548.
Sternberg, R. J. (1984). Toward a triarchic theory of human intelligence. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 269-315.
Sternberg, R. J., Wagner, R. K., Williams, W. M., & Horvath, J. A. (1995). Testing common sense. American Psychologist, 50, 912-927.
Turkheimer, E. (1991). Individual and group differences in adoption studies of IQ. Psychological Bulletin, 110, 392-405.
Fagan, J. R., III (1992). Intelligence: A theoretical viewpoint. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1, 82-86.
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