What is it about?
The need to look not only at pairwise correlations between traits and phenomena (behaviour, cognition, experience), but also at the effect of the interaction of the traits in determining such phenomena, has been a point stressed previously by Eysenck (1994, p. 158). What Depue and Collins (1999) have suggested is that one needs a more dynamic conception of personality, wherein there are emergent traits, such as impulsivity. Such a call for a more holistic, interactive and dynamic view of personality has been advanced by others in the field, such as David Magnusson (e.g., Magnusson & Torestad, 1993; Stattin & Magnusson, 1996). One of the themes of the present volume (and this chapter) is the need to integrate all of these facets in one's thinking about criminal behaviour.
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I would suggest that in order to know where one is gomg, it is important to reflect whence one has come.
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This page is a summary of: Criminality, Personality and Cognitive Neuroscience, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0943-1_1.
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