Title: Does the CAPS Model Improve Our Understanding of Personality and Character?
Abstract: Abstract Over the past forty years, Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, and Jack Wright have developed a version of the social-cognitive approach to the study of personality in great detail. Their ‘cognitive-affective personality system’ or ‘CAPS’ model, as it has become known, is now one of the leading approaches to understanding personality in psychology today. In addition, it is receiving increased attention in philosophical work on character. The goal of this chapter is to offer the first detailed critical assessments of the CAPS model from a philosophical perspective. The chapter argues for the following claim: using technical language, the CAPS model re-describes and finds supporting evidence for basic platitudes of commonsense folk psychology.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-02-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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