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Annual Review of Psychology

Volume 73, 2022

Personality Psychology

Abstract

Personality psychology, which seeks to study individual differences in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persist over time and place, has experienced a renaissance in the last few decades. It has also not been reviewed as a field in the since 2001. In this article, we seek to provide an update as well as a meta-organizational structure to the field. In particular, personality psychology has a prescribed set of four responsibilities that it implicitly or explicitly tackles as a field: () describing what personality is—i.e., what the units of analysis in the field are; () documenting how it develops; () explaining the processes of personality and why they affect functioning; and () providing a framework for understanding individuals and explaining their actions, feelings, and motivations. We review progress made over the last 20 years to address these four agendas and conclude by highlighting future directions and ongoing challenges to the field.

Keyword(s): motivation, narrative identity, personality, personality development, personality traits, skills
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