Personality and Cognition

Author: Chen Shaohua
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: If we consider individual differences earlier in the theoretical and experimental research on human memory and learning, we will have theories and experiments that reflect the basic characteristics of these processes earlier. — HumphreysRevelle
Personality is likely to be split into two, as the division between basic processes and individual differences has been institutionalized in its mainstream journals, with the two sides being unrelated and even contradictory. In either case, it will make personality research harder to become an accumulative and consistent science. — MischelShoda
Personality and cognition occur in different time proportions. Cognitive processes evaluated in milliseconds in the laboratory will necessarily differ from personality processes formed over years, months, and days. Unless the two interact in similar contexts, we cannot predict a high correlation between them. — CostaMcCrae
This book conducts an in-depth exploration of the concepts of personality, traits, cognition, and operations, as well as their interrelationships, from the perspectives of "theoretical exploration," "related research," and "experimental research." It seeks to integrate the long-separated fields of personality and cognition into a unified theoretical framework. This integration is highly meaningful for psychological research, especially for cognitive research conducted in the laboratory, and will also provide a reliable theoretical basis for studying the relationship between personality and achievement.