The production mechanisms of traits: Reflections on two amazing decades |
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| Institution: | 1. Departments of Human Development & Family Studies and Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, United States;2. German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany;3. Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, United States;4. Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, United States;5. Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, United States;1. Western Washington University, United States;2. University of Utah, United States;3. University of Kansas, United States;4. Emory University, United States;1. Institute of Personality and Social Research, Berkeley, CA, United States;2. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, United States;3. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, United States;1. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium;2. Ghent University, Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, H. Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;1. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States;2. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States |
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| Abstract: | I am filled with a great deal of gratitude to see the progress, diversity, and excitement of research on within-person variability in personality. I argue for the value of studying states of a diverse array of contents, as represented in this special issue. The value of studying states is represented by four advances states facilitate: (i) evaluating the multipotency of personality; (ii) discovering the production mechanisms by which traits cause trait manifestations; (iiii) testing the causal effects of personality; and (iv) opening up new approaches to questions about personality. I present a series of conceptual commitments that enhance the value of studying states, and then I discuss how and why those conceptual commitments actually do enhance the value of studying states. |
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