Personality Assessments Conceptualized as Perspectives

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Abstract
The view was advanced that an integral understanding of personality requires a conceptualization of assessments as organized multiple processes. Using an extension of Brunswik's Lens Model, a framework was developed for analyzing the distinct phases of assessment processes and their phase relations, both within and between assessments. The scheme incorporated a pervasively organismic conception of the environment, and localized personality neither in the observer-judge, nor in the observed-judged, but rather in their transactional relation. Divergence-convergence between different assessments was treated as a phase-specific matter, and as an important substantive question for systematic investigation. Selected features of the scheme are illustrated in an empirical application.