ABSTRACT

SHOULD it prove possible to establish experimentally a general feature of several perceptual tasks which is related to a relatively well defined personality dimension, three things would have been accomplished: (a) it would extend the scope of the theory of personality from which the existence of the dimension can be derived; (b) it would permit a rapprochement between perceptual task performance, and performance in those other sectors of behaviour to which the theory has relevance; (c) it would permit ‘personality’ to be used as an integrative concept in psychology accounting for the differing degrees of generality found in the behaviour of an individual (or type of individual) from one situation to another.