Abstract

PINA LOPEZ, Julio Alfonso. Development and personality: formal theories or interface categories?. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2011, n.28, pp.219-233. ISSN 0123-417X.

The relationship between basic phenomena and development as well as personality is analyzed, in terms of whether the first should be seen as a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the second, and in turn the first two as conditions for the last one. We conclude that depending on how this relationship arises is what eventually will make sense to build formal theories of development and personality, or to characterize both phenomena as interface category types with predictive purposes.

Keywords : Development; Personality; Psychology; Theory; Interface Categories.

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