Assembling original papers by the field's foremost investigators, this history demonstrates the continuity and progress made across five decades of personality psychology research. In addition to providing a historical perspective for the discipline, the work aims to inspire a more coherent agenda for future research.

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I. Introduction.- 1 The 1937 Allport and Stagner Texts in Personality Psychology.- II. Historical and Personal Background of the 1937 Texts.- 2 Fifty Years of the Psychology of Personality: Reminiscences.- 3 Allport's Personality and Allport's Personality.- 4 Allport and Murray on Allport's Personality: A Confrontation in 19461947.- III. Current State of Personality Psychology and Its Texts.- 5 Pattern and Organization: Current Trends and Prospects for the Future.- 6 The Continuing Relevance of Personality Theory.- 7 It's Time to Put Theories of Personality in Their Place, or, Allport and Stagner Got It Right, Why Can't We?.- IV. Present-Day Perspectives on Basic Issues.- 8 Science and the Single Case.- 9 Describing Lives: Gordon Allport and the Science of Personality.- 10 Gordon Allport and Letters from Jenny.- 11 Allport's Personal Documents: Then and Now.- 12 Conceptions of Self and Identity: A Modern Retrospective on Allport's View.- 13 Current Status of the Motive Concept.- 14 The Ability to Judge Others from Their Expressive Behaviors.- 15 Judgments of Personality and Personality Itself.- 16 Gordon Allport: Father and Critic of the Five-Factor Model.- 17 To Predict Some of the People More of the Time: Individual Traits and the Prediction of Behavior.- 18 The Scientific Credibility of Commonsense Psychology.- 19 A Commonsense Approach to Personality Measurement.- V. Epilogue.- 20 An Optimistic Forecast.- Author Index.