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"