I want to add that, as far as I know, the psychologically-oriented research
using 'personality' as an independent variable has not produced much valauble.
For example, marketing has looked and looked for personality differences
between Ford and Chevy owners, and not found anything useful at all. We all
*know* that Ford and Chevy people are radically different, but no personality
inventory ever managed to separate them.
Donna Darden.
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>> RE: Betsy's comment about personality and how it is created...
>> I think that is a very important point about "who we are." Regardless of
>> what it is called, what interactionists refer to as the "self" emerges
>> and develops through interaction; there remain unique biological
>> foundations (yes, DNA does play a part in this!). But whatever the
>> potential and limitations provided by "nature," it is in interaction
>> that the self develops. This is why social scientists with a solid
>> theoretical grounding are always a bit hesitant to separate neatly
>> "individuals" from "the social".
>> David A.
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