“The systematic study of personality as a recognizable and separate discipline within psychology may be said to have begun in the 1930s with the publication in the United States of two textbooks, Psychology of Personality (1937) by Ross Stagner and Personality: A Psychological Interpretation(1937) by Gordon W. Allport, followed by Henry A. Murray’s Explorations in Personality(1938), which contained a set of experimental and clinical studies, and by Gardner Murphy’s integrative and comprehensivetext, Personality: A Biosocial Approach to Origins and Structure (1947). Yet personology can trace its ancestry to the ancient Greeks, who proposed a kind of biochemical theory of personality.”
This is great and a universal idea for the most part, but a lot of these things are just personality concepts which shift and change a lot.
horoscopes is one conceptual frame we use to describe personality, and there are many others out there created by various personality professionals.
I think its good for us to get to know more about ourselves and what makes us tick, but I also think they can be self limiting belief systems about oneself and keep us stuck in an identity and thus are not open to real growth and change.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/personality#:~:text=Personality%20embraces%20moods%2C%20attitudes%2C%20and,and%20to%20the%20social%20group.
“The systematic study of personality as a recognizable and separate discipline within psychology may be said to have begun in the 1930s with the publication in the United States of two textbooks, Psychology of Personality (1937) by Ross Stagner and Personality: A Psychological Interpretation(1937) by Gordon W. Allport, followed by Henry A. Murray’s Explorations in Personality(1938), which contained a set of experimental and clinical studies, and by Gardner Murphy’s integrative and comprehensivetext, Personality: A Biosocial Approach to Origins and Structure (1947). Yet personology can trace its ancestry to the ancient Greeks, who proposed a kind of biochemical theory of personality.”
This is great and a universal idea for the most part, but a lot of these things are just personality concepts which shift and change a lot.
horoscopes is one conceptual frame we use to describe personality, and there are many others out there created by various personality professionals.
I think its good for us to get to know more about ourselves and what makes us tick, but I also think they can be self limiting belief systems about oneself and keep us stuck in an identity and thus are not open to real growth and change.