Two worldviews of psychology

Two Worlds of Gordon Allport

 

Personality Personology:
Natural science Human science

Personology is marked by understanding persons through the "trilogy of mind" enabling them to be ethico-legal agents of responsibility

1939- APA Presidential Address:


Science is "empirical, mechanistic, quantitative,
nomothetic, analytic, and uses operational concepts"

"Why not allow psychology as a science is [that is]
... rational, teleological, qualitative, idiographic,

synoptic, and even non-operational"