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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Trofimova, I
• Robbins, T W
• Sulis, W H
• Uher, J

Titel

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

Ist Teil von

• Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences, 2018-04, Vol.373 (1744)

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.This article is part of the theme issue 'Diverse perspectives on diversity: multi-disciplinary approaches to taxonomies of individual differences'.