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1926 J. C. Smuts Holism & Evol. 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.

1938 H. A. Murray Explor. 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’.

1943 R. Bain in Sociometry 6 207 Social psychology specializes on the interpersonal relations of the socius, and therefore should be called ‘sociology’, or perhaps ‘personology’ since the role-taking aspect of the socius is increasingly emphasized.

1945 J. Mc. Hunt in Amer. Sociol. Rev. 10 813/2 In a work of this kind it would have been too daring to drop ‘personality’ and substitute a neologism for the science of studying persons like ‘personology’ (parallel with sociology). Perhaps that can happen soon.

1967 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 28 9 The other day I leafed through a book on the new science of personology. It aimed at putting behaviorism, psychiatry, and introspection together.

2000 S. G. Shoham Personaliity & Deviance iii. 61 The relationship between human growth and the participant quest of nonbeing is within the realm of personology.