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Chapter 15 - Overview

from Part V - Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2021

Maurice Yolles
Affiliation:
Liverpool John Moores University
Gerhard Fink
Affiliation:
Vienna University of Economics and Finance
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This book delivers a general living system theory of personality psychology for complex agencies. It has defined and explored the formative traits, accumulated into Mindsets, that are able to explain agency behaviour. These traits are both agency and personality formative, the personality being subject to sociocultural traits that create an immanent agency context that may overlay personality orientations. Through Agency Theory they can be used to explain the rise of the dark personality ‘local’ traits like Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy, as well as other forms of pathology, and can also be used to explain identities and their pathologies and distortions. Since traits are value based, they are therefore stable, but they are always subject to a potential for change, that is they are essentially dynamic. While attention to the trait dynamics has centred on the cultural trait due to the extensive work in this area by Pitrim Sorokin (1939), all traits are susceptible to their own dynamics. It is therefore tempting to consider a theory referring to the internal dynamics of agency personality psychology systems might be best described by the term psychodynamics.

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A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory
A Formative Trait Psychology with Affect, Cognition and Behaviour
, pp. 507 - 529
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Overview
  • Maurice Yolles, Liverpool John Moores University, Gerhard Fink
  • Book: A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory
  • Online publication: 28 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974028.021
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  • Overview
  • Maurice Yolles, Liverpool John Moores University, Gerhard Fink
  • Book: A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory
  • Online publication: 28 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974028.021
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  • Overview
  • Maurice Yolles, Liverpool John Moores University, Gerhard Fink
  • Book: A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory
  • Online publication: 28 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974028.021
Available formats
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