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personology Psychol.|pɜːsəˈnɒlədʒɪ|
[f. person n. + -ology.]
A term sometimes used for the study of personality. So personoˈlogical a.; persoˈnologist, one who studies personality.
1926J. C. Smuts Holism & Evolution x. 262 Personality is, in fact, largely an unexplored subject and requires a discipline to itself as a real factor in the universe. ‘Characterology’ has been suggested as a name for the new discipline, but there are objections to it, and Personology is suggested as a better name. The ‘Person’ is a concept of the Roman law, not of Greek philosophy, and the hybrid is therefore justified. 1938H. A. Murray Explorations in Personality i. 4 The branch of psychology which principally concerns itself with the study of human lives and the factors that influence their course, which investigates individual differences and types of personality, may be termed ‘personology’ instead of ‘the psychology of personality’ a clumsy and tautological expression. Ibid. 8 Since the latter [sc. psychic impulses] are intangible, personologists must imagine them. 1951J. S. Bruner in Blake & Ramsey Perception v. 121 The perception-centered approach takes as its primary focus of interest the variables of perception and studies the way these are affected by various learnings, motivational states, personological structures, etc. 1957Hall & Lindzey Theories of Personality v. 157 The focus of this theory is upon the individual in all his complexity and this point of view is highlighted by the term ‘personology’. 1967R. R. Holt in Lazarus & Opton Personality 48 Personologists have increasingly begun to recognize that all the error-terms of standard psychological equations are their own happy hunting grounds. Ibid. (heading), The logic of the Romantic point of view in personology. 1980Underground Grammarian Mar., Since personology must be too subtle a science for the likes of us, we cannot explain how ‘personological’ variables might be different from differences in persons. |