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Personality is indeterminate

D D Smith

    Psychological Reports
    |June 1, 1993
    PubMed
    Summary
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    Human behavior genetics, personality instability, and creativity stem from the brain's indeterminate dynamics. This suggests social sciences inherently study unpredictable phenomena, impacting research design.

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    Area of Science:

    • Behavioral Genetics
    • Neuroscience
    • Social Sciences

    Background:

    • The unique environmental factor in behavior genetics research is poorly understood.
    • Longitudinal personality instability and human creativity are complex, unpredictable phenomena.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a unified scientific explanation for the unique environmental factor, personality instability, and creativity.
    • To posit that the inherently indeterminate global dynamics of the human brain underlie these phenomena.
    • To explore the implications for social sciences and psychometric research.

    Main Methods:

    • Theoretical framework development linking brain dynamics to observed phenomena.
    • Hypothesis formulation for psychometric study design.
    • Conceptual analysis of indeterminacy in social sciences.

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    Main Results:

    • The study proposes that the indeterminate dynamics of the human brain explain the unique environmental factor, personality instability, and creativity.
    • It implies that phenomena studied in social sciences are inherently indeterminate.
    • Predictions for a psychometric study based on this hypothesis are presented.

    Conclusions:

    • A unified theory is presented for previously disparate behavioral phenomena.
    • The inherent indeterminacy of the human brain has profound implications for the predictability and methodology of social sciences.
    • Further psychometric research is needed to validate these implications.