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In search of explanations: A rejoinder to Borkenau

Author(s) -

Krahé Barbara,

Semin Gün R.

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

european journal of personality

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.839

H-Index - 84

eISSN - 1099-0984

pISSN - 0890-2070

DOI - 10.1002/per.2410030103

Subject(s) - psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , similarity (geometry) , personality , psychometrics , cognitive psychology , social psychology , epistemology , developmental psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , philosophy , image (mathematics) , programming language

The main points raised by Borkenau against our challenge of the 'intuitive psychometrics' view of personality judgements are discussed, in particular his example of the link between school grades and intelligence. It is argued that the semantic similarity interpretation advanced in our paper is more adequate and more parsimonious than explanations in terms of psychometric reasoning.

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