Most personality psychologists recognize 1968 as a seminal year in our history because it marks the publication of Walter Mischel's book, Personality and Assessment, which ignited the person-situation debate. Unfortunately for personality science, scholars in the field seemingly failed to notice many other things that were happening in 1968, including the Civil Rights Movement, the founding of the Association for Black Psychologists, and the address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to the American Psychological Association (in late 1967). Personality psychology has, in many ways, existed (or tried to exist) somehow apart from these important historical moments and apart from the ideas of race and ethnicity and the continuing power these aspects of identity have in lives lived in biased settings. Not coincidentally, personality psychology remains a mostly white enterprise. Also not coincidentally, personality psychology risks a far worse consequence than anything Mischel might have devised-utter irrelevance to human behavior. This symposium brings together scholars from diverse institutions and career stages to address the need for enhancing diversity in personality science, to the benefit of personality psychology and diversity science, itself.
Speakers:
Laura King, 2022 SPSP President
Kelci Harris, University of Victoria
Samantha J. Heintzelman, Rutgers University, Newark
Jonathan M. Adler, Olin College of Engineering
Robert M. Sellers, University of Michigan
This session was originally held during the 2022 SPSP Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA on Feb. 18, 2022.
21 окт 2024
