ABSTRACT
At the heart of the need for a phenomenological psychology lies a fact which H. Kluver has expressed as follows: Whether or not behavior takes this or that direction is, generally speaking, dependent on whether or not this or that phenomenal property exists. Kluver offered an experimental technique based on matching of response values, for the study of personality. Phenomenology calls for intensive descriptive analysis—a description that often leads to an impatient demand for its supposed opposite, explanation via the "definitive" experiment. Phenomenology may have a chance to come alive in a climate no longer dominated by pseudo-physics in psychology, but behaviorism is moving into significant areas of human behavior, and even reformulating a "subjective behaviorism". Behavior is a consequence of perception. C. R. Rogers developed theory of personality and behavior based on the phenomenal self, stated in a set of nineteen propositions which are abstracted in a summary by J. M. Shlien.
