January 23, 2009
The Flourishing Field of Personality Science
To the Editor:
In "The Search for Self" (The Chronicle Review, December 5), Thomas Bartlett has captured some of the excitement, as well as the ambivalence, that personality scientists feel regarding the upsurge of neuroscience research on individual differences. Neuroimaging studies have already provided intriguing clues regarding positive and negative emotionality and the origins of personality traits. But Bartlett's framing premise — that the scientific field of
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