Static laws in a dynamic psychology?
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in European Journal of Personality
- Vol. 5 (3) , 245-247
- https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2410050306
Abstract
In reply to Lamiell's (1991) criticism, we argue that his notion of nomothesis reflects a Newtonian, mechanistic notion of lawfulness and that his otherwise justified attack on the individual differences paradigm is an overreaction to an era that is dominated by this paradigm.Keywords
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