Taxonomies of psychological individual differences: biological perspectives on millennia-long challenges

Trofimova, I., Robbins, T. W., Sulis, W. H. and Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943 (2018) Taxonomies of psychological individual differences: biological perspectives on millennia-long challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1744). p. 20170152. ISSN 0962-8436

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Abstract

This Editorial highlights a unique focus of this theme issue on the biological perspectives in deriving psychological taxonomies coming from neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, genetics, psychiatry, developmental and comparative psychology—as contrasted to more common discussions of socio-cultural concepts (personality) and methods (lexical approach). It points out the importance of the distinction between temperament and personality for studies in human and animal differential psychophysiology, psychiatry and psycho-pharmacology, sport and animal practices during the past century. It also highlights the inability of common statistical methods to handle nonlinear, feedback, contingent, dynamical and multi-level relationships between psychophysiological systems of consistent psychological traits discussed in this theme issue

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Authors
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	02 May 2018 11:56
Last Modified:	18 Apr 2024 16:03
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87739

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